Example sentences of "with [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , most of the spending was completed upon a general visit to library booksellers ' warehouses in London , where thematic material was first selected , along with mostly paperback fiction , and the remainder spent in a fairly unstructured way until the money ran out . |
| 2 | City unchanged for the fourth successive game with fit-again Dutchman Michel Vonk probably on the bench . |
| 3 | By the end of this year ITV and Channel 4 plan to cover more than three-quarters of the country with predominantly stereo broadcasts . |
| 4 | Areas with predominantly family or part-time farmers would need close consultation in the provision of training . |
| 5 | ‘ It seems to me that what our children have got is a little square box with predominantly soaps and games shows , with fingertip control to get them from one to another as they get bored . |
| 6 | Calling the P5 a ‘ paper tiger ’ responsible for the collapse of ACE and claiming that the chip fails to live up to its promises , Slater notes that ‘ the P5 is turning out to be not a few months behind the R4000 , but over a year later — and by the time the P5 is shipping , the MIPS semiconductor partners will be shipping the R4400 with perhaps 50% better performance than the P5 . ’ |
| 7 | But as the season 's prices are going to depend on the official harvest estimate , most traders are only prepared to offer two-stage deals , with perhaps £200/t now and the balance to come after October . |
| 8 | The net result of all this is that a 740Kb disk could supply you with perhaps 3Mb of programs . |
| 9 | I think in a community one does come across practical snags , like for example the differences become very marked between the businessman who goes off at eight in the morning and comes back at six , week in week out , year in year out , with perhaps sort of three or four weeks holiday , and the university men who appear to be around an awful lot of the time and appear to have a lot of holiday . |
| 10 | In 1940 , there were about 400000 km 2 of forest in Central America and this was reduced to about half by 1987 , compared with perhaps 500000km 2 standing at the time of the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century , when there was a large population : the Mayas with shifting cultivation and intensive terraced agriculture . |
| 11 | Steven suggested Spenser and Shakespeare , with perhaps Scott and Hardy , and if I insisted on an up-to-date author , William Goulding . |
| 12 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 13 | The managers produce a league table of 24 states with the UK third from the bottom with only Greece ( 5.5% ) and Turkey ( 4% ) spending less than Britain 's 6.2% . |
| 14 | Two women were trapped in the cabin , with only inches of air space , as the boat filled with icy water . |
| 15 | The same was true of market produce ; some growers concentrating on just one crop so that ‘ whole tracts , like large arable fields , were sown with only cabbages or asparagus ’ , and he also appreciated the local economy in forcing asparagus through the necks of broken bottles . |
| 16 | Fortunately , we escaped with only bruises . |
| 17 | There were 14 British players — 12 of them English — in the field , yet home interest ended in the second round , with only Peter Marshall showing any prospect of progressing further . |
| 18 | In the Spanish-American war of 1898 , troops arrived in Florida with only winter clothing . |
| 19 | Their victory over Rangers extended their unbeaten run to 11 games and with only Blackburn and Norwich three points ahead of them at the top , their sights are being raised ever higher . |
| 20 | Recently Cohn et al found that 73% of 11 large bowel cancer patients whose tumours had lost the nm23 allele developed metastatic liver disease compared with only 20% of the remainder . |
| 21 | The Community market now accounts for 39% of all Scotch Whisky exports , as compared with only 20% on UK entry ( Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 22 | JOHN PEEL tinkers away into the small hours with only Loudon Wainwright III and Jacob 's Mouse for company . |
| 23 | Alison escaped with only aches and pains from an accident which could easily have claimed her life … now she hopes she can put all the anxiety of the past few months behind her . |
| 24 | And , in describing the consequences of what he defines as literacy , he distinguishes between societies which employ the notion of ‘ logic ’ and those which do not , between societies with ‘ historical sensibility ’ and those with only myth , and between societies where ‘ scepticism ’ is present involving ‘ deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma and those limited to ‘ semi-automatic readjustment of belief . |
| 25 | However it turned out a dismal championship for them with only Noel Weir of Rathfriland giving the association an interest in the open singles final . |
| 26 | In December 1959 Congress announced the cancellation of the B-70 weapons system , leaving NAA with only permission to proceed with a single XB-70 prototype . |
| 27 | The sense of whizzing through the snow with only hills and trees around her made her jubilant . |
| 28 | For Anne it was not only the ordeal of the air raids but even more the terror that her mother would die on the bed in the cellar , with only Anne of all her family with her . |
| 29 | Close behind was Worcestershire rider Giles Turner , 19 , on the French bred Mavis Davis — who came from Nick Skelton with only £4 on her card . |
| 30 | They have made a strong bid for the 1995 World Cup with only NZ in opposition . |