Example sentences of "[to-vb] with [pos pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The strength of the personal relationship with our account manager has allowed us to get through a number of fairly serious problems , ’ says Mr Miller , who believes the owners of small businesses need to make extra efforts to communicate with their bankers during hard times . |
2 | There are nasty people ( a pox on their house ) who use fresh-minted language not simply or even primarily to communicate with their peers , but to repel boarders ; just as prep-school boys use cabalisms to confuse rival Football teams . |
3 | By Frances Jellicoe , he had four children and the three who survived infancy quickly learnt sign language in order to communicate with their father . |
4 | And with the millions of insects buzzing , crawling , flying and swimming about , all needing to communicate with their own kind and with other associated species , but not with the millions of other creatures , this would seem to be essential to avoid confusion . |
5 | Another parallel between football and industry exposed by the research is the frequent failure of managers to communicate with their players and discover where their strengths lie . |
6 | For , while Léopold Senghor and Houphouet-Boigny were able to communicate with their political colleagues in Paris , they had nevertheless not forgotten how to communicate with their own people . |
7 | For , while Léopold Senghor and Houphouet-Boigny were able to communicate with their political colleagues in Paris , they had nevertheless not forgotten how to communicate with their own people . |
8 | Civil war threatens to explode , ’ warn the leaders of the Church of Christ in Zaire , who are now obliged to communicate with their people through literature printed and distributed from neighbouring Kenya . |
9 | Wherever they come from , horses have no difficulty in understanding each other ; there appear to be no languages or dialects in ‘ Horse ’ , though domestic horses sometimes invent unusual signs to communicate with their owners . |
10 | Some fish may use sound to communicate with their young , and to signal danger . |
11 | The grounds for doubt are very varied but there are now several cases of chimpanzees , and at least one gorilla , who have first been taught to communicate with their human mentors in an apparently rational way by means of stereotyped signs invented by their teachers and have then gone on to use these signs grammatically , generating novel sentences as if the signs formed a genuine human language . |
12 | They are equipped with high resolution visual display screens and , as well as keyboards , graphic input devices to allow users to communicate with their machines by pointing to information on the screens . |
13 | This is true irrespective of whether the animal is able to communicate with its conspecifics — either by way of warning-cries , mating-calls , and the like , or by means of a syntactically-structured language whose meaning is determined by social conventions rather than by fixed genetic mechanisms , The point is that even much non-communicative behaviour has to be understood in computational terms , such that internal symbolic processes must be attributed to the creature . |
14 | She is abandoned in the home all day , unable to communicate with her teenage daughter , Camille , and her only proper friendship is with a neighbour , Constance . |
15 | It was also during this period that primitive man undoubtedly arrived at the time when he was able to communicate with his fellows with developing abilities more effective than those available to the rest of living creatures . |
16 | ‘ Ma , ’ he said in a tentative tone of voice , his face going slowly pink with the strain of trying to communicate with his despondent parent . |
17 | Ali was never allowed out , but managed to communicate with his brothers by shouting . |
18 | The prisoner was forbidden all human rights , to communicate with his family , to be represented by a lawyer , to protest against the torture , or even to be put on trial . |
19 | There may however be a way of adapting it to say that the solipsist will be unable to use the term ‘ beetle ’ to communicate with his later self ( in a diary , perhaps ) , since what gives the term its meaning to him now can not be what was then in the box ( an object to which he now has no access ) but what he now thinks was in the box . |
20 | It has been suggested , from an evolutionary point of view , that language may have arisen out of primitive man 's use of manual gestures to communicate with his fellows ( Hewes , 1973 ) . |
21 | 41 ) serve materials and components , and data processing computers serve clerical systems , the new office technology serves Man 's needs to communicate with his fellows . |
22 | Since you are so unwilling to communicate with your old friends they can only guess . |
23 | The main thing is to communicate with your creditors . |
24 | ‘ We have frank and fearless discussions sometimes , ’ smiles Andy ironically , ‘ but you 've got to try to communicate with your bands as much as possible . |
25 | At any rate , perhaps I may be allowed to communicate with Your Majesty on this point , or ask my Private Secretary to discuss it with Sir Michael Adeane . |
26 | The most important thing is to communicate with your partner at the back . |
27 | Pen-based computing is a major step in that direction , Until someone builds a computer you can talk to that is n't the size of a filing cabinet there is likely to be an easier way to communicate with your technology . |
28 | At home , we have used the Actuary — the magazine of the UK Actuarial Profession — to communicate with our members . |
29 | Culture is one of the best mediums we can utilize to communicate with our people . |
30 | Often we share many common objectives and interests with other agencies operating in our town in seeking to communicate with our communities . |