Example sentences of "with [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 Back in the early 1970s , we were quite innovative with programmes like " Now It 's Your Say " .
32 There is no shortage of guide books in the modern world , nor of travel books which regale readers with accounts of what travellers have seen .
33 Lionello Venturi considered lives of artists made up a basic category of art criticism , buttressing his opinion with accounts of writings by Vasari and others .
34 The racecourse was naturally buzzing with accounts of the row at Tremayne 's dinner , most of the stories inflamed and inaccurate because of the embroidery by the press .
35 YOUR correspondent Mrs Kalinowsky ( April 5 ) is perhaps thinking of Gillie Potter , who used to regale us with accounts of the goings-on at Hogsnorton .
36 However , although the Dictionary is principally filled with accounts of genera and their cultivated species , from Abies alba of Europe to Zygophyllum fulvum of South Africa , there is also comprehensive practical advice on cultivation .
37 For this purpose the type of interview was particularly suitable , with accounts of present-day life coming towards the end of a now intimate interview .
38 Within the deliberately narrow focus of this book the treatment is detailed and full , with accounts of the catalytic implication of modifying pore size .
39 Rumours of such ‘ snuff ’ movies had been carefully fostered in the New York Press with accounts of private screenings at Mafia parties , and when it was claimed that one had been acquired for public exhibition , it was advertised with the slogan : ‘ Blood Money , the film that could only be made in South America … where Life is CHEAP ! ’
40 Not long ago a performer in Paris won some notoriety for employing her vagina to swallow , and then powerfully eject , table tennis balls and the history of the seamier side of nightlife around the world is littered with accounts of vaginas that have played harmonicas or smoked cigarettes .
41 Literature and autobiography are liberally sprinkled with accounts of the indignation and outrage felt when such a promise fails to materialize .
42 The troubled signs of this ‘ ordinary ’ street life were very much in evidence , however , and press reports were packed with accounts of assaults and robberies , ‘ dipping ’ gangs at race meetings , gang fights and stabbings , vandalism , punch-ups and ‘ free fights ’ .
43 Goodman substantiates his view of reading as a ‘ psycholinguistic guessing game ’ ( 1972 ) with accounts of children who managed to battle their way through unfamiliar syntax and uncertain word recognition to some kind of understanding of the text .
44 The problem with old-fashioned community studies was that they lacked any systematic procedure for linking ethnographic observation with accounts of society as a whole .
45 This list could be greatly extended with accounts of successful predictions and explanations made possible by inductively derived scientific laws and theories .
46 Needless to say , Tod has neglected to regale Irene with accounts of his new relationships , his invasions , his conquests , his quiet annexations .
47 Then , we will contrast each of these with accounts of first meetings with people we know well .
48 Some of them are explained in more detail on the following pages along with accounts of Tesco 's efforts to tackle a range of problems from toxic chemicals to energy conservation .
49 In March 1698 , settled in the Strand , Stringer published a congratulatory poem to Peter the Great on the tsar 's arrival in England , together with accounts from the Protestant Mercury of his dramatic cure of a person bitten by a viper and his spectacular experiments with metals and minerals for the tsar at the Deptford manor-house belonging to John Evelyn [ q.v . ] .
50 The long hall was caparisoned with cloths of Paris , costly arras , and ablaze with torches burning fiercely in their countless sconces along the walls .
51 Female slaves mopped at them with cloths of unbleached fabric , and Alexei took one out of a pair of slim hands and towelled himself dry .
52 Eco says that ‘ Semiotics is mainly concerned with signs as social forces ’ ( Eco 1977 : 65 ) which indicates that it is the mechanics of signs that his ( and Pierce 's ) semiotics describes .
53 There was Lodowyck 's universal language , for instance , in which a sign for a radical ( eg primitive verb , to light ) was set on a musical stave , with signs for augmentation leg that wherewith the thing is acted ) set adjacent to it .
54 We are all familiar with signs on doors saying ‘ Push ’ , ‘ Pull ’ and ‘ Exit ’ .
55 The snake is sometimes decorated with signs of the zodiac .
56 Too little has been spent on maintaining the system in the past and the industry , faced with signs of accelerating failure rates , does not yet appear to be doing enough to contain the rate of decay .
57 He , along with the artists , masons , carpenters and other craftsmen frequently permeate their work with signs of a love of the task they have undertaken , which leaves the beholder in no doubt that they have given something of themselves over and above the requirements of loyalty to the paymaster and the desire to enjoy applying their crafts .
58 Here was a city relatively unscarred by war , with signs of growing prosperity .
59 These are deep waters , but our cultural future now crawls with signs of a barely rational obsession with great memorial feasts , a never-ending British Day of the Dead .
60 During the comprehensive rebuilt process , the aircraft 's original paint scheme was discovered on the airframe whilst paint stripping was taking place , along with signs of active service in the form of several small calibre bullet holes .
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