Example sentences of "[noun pl] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Atmosphere created by affected manners with due deference ( 8 ) . |
| 2 | Findings of a study of births in England ( Douglas , 1950 ) also pointed to a " U " shaped relationship of the association of risks with inter-birth intervals . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher also has taken risks with collective responsibility . |
| 4 | There are analogous risks with long positions ; those with net holdings of stock lose when bond prices fall . |
| 5 | One might ask whether motorists are ever justified in knowingly taking risks with other people 's lives . |
| 6 | The point is rather that , even though knowingly taking risks with other people 's lives is usually unjustifiable , taking a slight risk is less serious than intentionally causing death . |
| 7 | If it was definitely linked to her death I might have to break a promise — which I 'd hate doing because the repercussions for the crew could be very serious — but it 's too vague to go to Foucard and run risks with other people 's livelihoods . ’ |
| 8 | Even as Day One was spent securing the capital Mogadishu 's airport and port , there were occasional skirmishes with back street snipers . |
| 9 | The little man would trot around , mumbling contentedly , reenacting heroic skirmishes with rabid Orks in cramped subterranean Squattish strongholds . |
| 10 | The physicists who felt they had left their successors with little more to do than to clean up a few minor problems expressed the same mood as August Schleicher , who was sure that ancient Aryans had talked exactly the putative language which he had reconstructed for them . |
| 11 | The success of Crookes and his successors with evacuated tubes meant that the passage of electricity through gases was more studied and better understood than that through solids . |
| 12 | In recent years it has been realized that many non-fluid systems can exhibit behaviour which shares important characteristics with turbulent motion . |
| 13 | In two respects — the nature of their self-concepts and their social networks — their position was quite highly domestic and kin-oriented , but they shared these characteristics with other women in the sample . |
| 14 | Our results show that the K + channel expressed by HGT-1 cells is Ca 2 + dependent , voltage and Ba 2 + sensitive , and possesses complex gating characteristics with one open state and at least two closed states . |
| 15 | Bernstein , for instance , in his attempt to attribute less ‘ context-dependence ’ and greater ‘ objectivity ’ to certain language uses , correlated these characteristics with certain ‘ codes ’ which he identifies with certain social classes ( 1971 ) . |
| 16 | Multivariate Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate independent associations of baseline characteristics with 2-year mortality . |
| 17 | A variety of possible contributing factors have been put forward : that biological factors make women more vulnerable than men ; that women are socially disadvantaged by the roles they are expected to perform , and psychologically disadvantaged by socialization preparing them for these roles ; that women express their emotions more readily ; and that health professionals are more likely to equate feminine characteristics with ill health ( Weissman and Klerman , 1977 ; Penfold and Walker , 1984 ; Corob , 1987 ) . |
| 18 | Beech et al. ( 1985 ) have compared its dietary characteristics with those of lean raw beefsteak , and although it has a protein content of c. 47 per cent , which is nearly 20 per cent less than the beefsteak , it contains half the fat and is rich in fibre . |
| 19 | These are unit trusts that have unique characteristics with special appeal for charities . |
| 20 | The clinical study of human tissue proliferation has been advanced by the use of the halogenated pyrimidine S phase markers bromo- and iodo-deoxyuridine ( BrdUrd and IdUrd ) , which share S phase labelling characteristics with tritiated thymidine . |
| 21 | Paris furniture and , increasingly , paintings and drawings dealer Jean Gismondi , is planning to line his stands with late eighteenth-century boiseries from the Paris hôtel particulier of the dancer Mademoiselle Guimard , painted pale blue and pale green and decorated with terracotta plaques by Clodion , painted medallions and exquisitely fine carved foliage and flowers . |
| 22 | Saul , a visiting American postgraduate , gets involved with brainy Catherine , who has a weakness for one-night stands with working-class youths . |
| 23 | Her children denounced ‘ the brute ’ ; her household reacted to his familiarities with jealous rows , though her private secretary , Sir Henry Ponsonby [ q.v. ] , called him ‘ a child of nature ’ , arguing that in view of the queen 's loneliness , they might have done worse . |
| 24 | Bon Jovi never did dirty their songs with real spunk , anger or despair , on in fact any emotion that was n't packaged up in stadium size , third-hand slogans with melodies so open and bare they sound as if they 've caught sunstroke in the New Jersey heat , and nothing 's changed . |
| 25 | So now what 's happening is we 're before we 're doing an album we sit down and we pick out a lot of songs we decide right you know we need songs with good story books so the video is near enough planned with the recording of the song and it it 's a lot easier for us and a lot more enjoyable enough a lot more enjoyable . |
| 26 | ‘ A lot of them write songs with thrashy noise guitars singing about how great it is to kill someone … |
| 27 | Cavendish 's second cousin , and comprises twenty-eight compositions : fourteen songs for voice and lute or two voices and bass viol , six more lute songs with alternative versions for four voices alone , and eight madrigals for five voices — a range of performing options which justifies the claim in the dedication that the book ‘ hath in it humours variable for delights sake ’ . |
| 28 | Our very own Adventures deal in all the things that seemed to go AWOL in the late 80s — luscious harmonies , strong guitar driven songs with big big choruses , all topped with strong echoes of classic 60s pop . |
| 29 | Valerie Masters … they and so many others arrived , did their songs with more panache than I 'd ever heard before , and departed . |
| 30 | Travellers ' tales , especially from traders , had in addition begun to circulate fictitious images of African peoples with bizarre physical features ( no mouths or noses ! ) ; accounts of the supposed promiscuity and general beastly immorality of African societies mingled with more accurate descriptions of the wealth and refinement to be found on the continent ( Walvin , 1973 ; Jordan , 1974 ; Husband , 1982 ) . |