Example sentences of "[noun pl] with the " in BNC.
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1 | And it was hard to reconcile his soft-spoken good manners with the ruthless determination of his business career . |
2 | The market discounted the fact that most of the military policy-makers doubted the practicability of reverting to the British tradition of voluntary regular service without taking undue risks with the country 's security . |
3 | And the most dangerous players in the world today are those athletic and financially secure ones who calculate risks with the astuteness of a bank manager , but go for the first prize , if possible , and the subsequent contracts , knowing that if the high-flying fairway wood does n't clear a ditch at Augusta , they can still enjoy a steak dinner tonight , thanks to a pitch and single putt ! |
4 | Drink , on-field violence , erratic behaviour , public notoriety , breaches of the peace , disputes with management , broken curfews , acrimonious transfers , divorce , headlines , bankruptcy and skirmishes with the law were to become the unofficial milestones which marked Scottish football 's ascent into the realm of creative corruption . |
5 | But the show dog must ignore these , and never participate in any skirmishes with the ‘ opposition ’ . |
6 | The contested nature of this political arrangement was evident in skirmishes with the IRA in the 1920s , around the Second World War and in an extended campaign , lasting approximately from 1956 to 1962 . |
7 | The Chief Flying Instructor ( CFI ) was a well known — in fact , famous — character in the days of the skirmishes with the tribes in Mespot after the League of Nations had proclaimed Mespot ( Iraq ) and the country a Mandate under British protection . |
8 | Front-line paraprofessionals are more likely than their professional colleagues to share ethnic , cultural , class , religious , language , and other characteristics with the clients and communities they serve . |
9 | The three islands have distinctive characteristics with the best of the game fishing being on South Uist . |
10 | Princely households had common characteristics with the English public schools of past generations . |
11 | The combination of such characteristics with the operation of local multiplier effects will , it is argued , generate the self-reinforcing growth spiral , further improving the position of the initially advantaged region . |
12 | The Shelter hopes that this attractive rate ( a result of some hard bargaining with underwriters Lloyds ! ) will encourage more people to register their pets with the scheme . |
13 | ‘ We negotiate pets with the residents , because obviously not everybody would want them . |
14 | I like those stands with the marble tops . |
15 | I made my way up to the lobby with those final two words of hers ringing around inside my head , and all sorts of other doctor phrases started to enter my mind — people calling me Doctor Streeter , popular songs with the word doctor in them — and then all of a sudden I started to cry . |
16 | Anyone can be a publisher by registering their songs with the various societies ( MCPS and PRS ) . |
17 | ‘ I had the hit record , the duet with Sarah , but I actually did all the songs with the orchestra , pretty well the whole Phantom role . |
18 | I 've always loved those '60s pop songs with the massive bass sound and that really inspired me to write Metal Mickey 's really stomping beat in a childish way . |
19 | By the end of the Seventies , the aliens had already found their classification systems in disarray after all manner of musical artists — Dolly Parton , Barry Manilow , Rod Stewart , the Doobie Brothers , Engelbert Humperdinck , the Beach Boys , Andy Williams , Jackie McClean , Esther Phillips , Ethel Merman , the Osmonds , Cab Calloway , Cher , Count Basie and even the Rolling Stones — recorded songs with the distinctive boom-chi beat . |
20 | The ‘ dirty ’ version will feature parental X-rated warning stickers while the ‘ clean ’ version has the same songs with the offending swear words edited out . |
21 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
22 | ‘ It 's the only possible place to live , ’ Felix said , putting on a record of North Vietnamese songs with the volume up very loud . |
23 | In any case , many of the peoples with the simplest technology , such as the hunters and gatherers of Africa and Asia , are neither patrilineal nor matrilineal , and do not form descent groups of any type . |
24 | For , having barely embarked on their first Industrial Revolution , many Third World nations tend to regard their tribal peoples with the same antagonism which caused the " maturer " nations to extinguish theirs just a century earlier . |
25 | This has provided coca growers with the training and tools needed to switch from coca to tea , bananas and livestock . |
26 | There , many Europeans could hardly believe their ears with the excuses of why the British would not want to sign a European Charter on Environment and Health . |
27 | Wind rattled and swayed the trees and filled my ears with the old songs of the land , and the sun shone through the moving boughs in shimmering ever-changing patterns . |
28 | Cut away the waste wood around the ears with the coping saw , and use the 1in shallow gouge to further shape them and the nostrils so that they angle back at each side . |
29 | Final days were spent in revetments on Kalaikunda airfield , 100 miles west of Calcutta , where they were used as decoys with the propellers sawn off and the tails lifted to look like tri-gear machines . |
30 | In all , we identified 34 registrations for the top 20 firms , nine with the ICAEW alone and a further 11 with the ICAEW in various combinations with the other regulatory bodies . |