Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 2 | Politically ‘ modernisation ’ implied , for those who wanted to undertake it , a frontal collision with the main support of traditionalism , the agrarian society ( see chapters 7 and 8 above ) . |
| 3 | The characters , it is often alleged , are flat ; there is not enough awareness of sexuality ; good and evil are presented as absolutes , without a proper sense of inner conflict within individuals ; there is something incoherent in the ‘ main pattern ’ of the story , which prevents one from reading it as ‘ a connected allegory with a clear message for the modern world ’ . |
| 4 | To a true graph theorist , a tree is a connected graph with no cycles . |
| 5 | One of Tweed , the other of a dark-haired girl with an attractive face and intelligent eyes . |
| 6 | A dark-haired girl with firelight on her face , the smell of turf burning on a winter night , the sound of the sea raging at the shore in a fury of storm . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's him ! ’ she said , pointing to a dark-haired child with a scowling face about to be struck by a huge hand coming from the top right-hand corner . |
| 8 | He noticed that the ghost was smartly dressed in a cut-away coat with gilt buttons , a stand-up collar and Scotch cap . |
| 9 | On 20th April 1874 , a deaf man with no speech was apprenticed to Solomon Lodge as a Freemason . |
| 10 | The study day includes a talk by a deaf mother with four children . |
| 11 | A DEAF woman with speech difficulties was stunned , sexually assaulted and stabbed repeatedly by a killer who got into the flat where she lived alone , a court was told yesterday . |
| 12 | This was Giotto 's second rendezvous with a comet , a historic encounter with Halley 's Comet having taken place in March 1986 . |
| 13 | At the far end of the bay is a pleasant Lido with a good sand beach , while in the resort there 's a quieter pebble beach . |
| 14 | ‘ Comfortably ensconced in front of the TV set , with a handy line to the bookmaker , we would have a pleasant afternoon with champagne , smoked sandwiches and the like . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ A pleasant village with a relaxed pace of life ’ |
| 16 | Brenzone is a pleasant village with an easy , relaxed pace of life , an ideal base for those wishing to take trips on the lake or explore the lakeside towns . |
| 17 | After a pleasant lunch with Mr Blackwood , the managing director of the Cambridge Arts Theatre , I joined the rest of the cast in the Green Room to help write a Derek and Clive type ‘ blue ’ review to be performed for the benefit of our admirable crew after tonight 's show . |
| 18 | Gift of creating a pleasant environment with minimal resources . |
| 19 | We spent a pleasant evening with Bob at the Springfield Hotel , the most northerly pub , in the British Isles where , amongst other anecdotes , we were told about the customs officer from Lerwick who was staying on Unst one very wet and stormy night , and awoke to find the roof of his bedroom had blown off . |
| 20 | The weather for the Fox F M area , after a pleasant evening with some sunshine , the night 'll be dry with clear periods , these are going to allow mist and fog patches to form by dawn in rural parts of the area , especially along the Thames and Thame valleys . |
| 21 | Our life is characterised on the one hand by a certain cosiness of Christian fellowship and on the other hand by a pleasant familiarity with the secular world : we work in it , spend our hard earned income on it , and take some of our pleasures from it . |
| 22 | There is a heated indoor swimming pool , and the hotel also has a library/TV room , fitness room , sun terrace and a pleasant garden with chairs and parasols . |
| 23 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in the School and to wish you a pleasant morning with us . |
| 24 | " He combines a pleasant personality with news-seeking initiative , and delights in special interviews , " wrote Monty , considerately forgetting my little dust-up with the Bishop of Exeter . |
| 25 | He was a pleasant chap with blond curls and a Mickey Mouse tee shirt on . |
| 26 | That over I can remember nothing until I awoke in a pleasant ward with three other mothers who had already seen their offspring . |
| 27 | A rich dessert with a festive flavour . |
| 28 | In the humanities , a rich databank with an easy-to-use retrieval system would offer a great deal , either in illustration or , particularly , for an exploratory approach . |
| 29 | The standards today give preference to a rich red with white lineback , tail and underline , though yellow dun , plum and red-eared white ( with or without red , dun or plum on their sides ) are acceptable as long as they have the white finching . |
| 30 | At times he was so dogmatic that I wanted to laugh , to behave in the traditionally xenophobic , continentals-despising way of my race ; at times , rather against my will , he impressed me — not only as a rich man with some enviable works of art in his house . |