Example sentences of "[verb] with [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following afternoon , as she approached the laundry , she wondered what was in store ; and dread , mixed with more than a grain of excitement , gnawed at her innards . |
| 2 | We might find , for instance , that ‘ analytic thinking ’ of the kind they describe , free of interpersonal bias and meaning what they say with little or no room for interpretation' is no more apparent within university institutions and the formal school system than within other social institutions . |
| 3 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 4 | The fingerboard is rosewood , after the fashion of '50s Les Paul Standards , and the pearl inlays have been expertly applied with little or no sign of filler around the edges to mar the effect . |
| 5 | Rory grimaced , remembering with more than a touch of bitterness Candy 's original theory that Adam had tried to spoil her pleasure in singing because on stage she was public property , and he wanted her for himself . |
| 6 | ‘ Pardon me if I write vehemently , ’ he apologized disingenuously to Poole in his second letter , adding with more than a hint of picturesque excess : |
| 7 | Just as a change in liquid assets may lead to little or no change in credit , so a change in credit may occur with little or no change in liquid assets . |
| 8 | Within this area of what could be called ‘ pure phonology ’ , problems are examined with little or no reference to their relevance to the language learner . |
| 9 | Regardless of where their support came from , the fact was that possession of 38 seats in the Volkstag meant they could now rule with little or no reference to the other parties . |
| 10 | Nonetheless , the stimuli and tasks used in dichotic listening research have been almost as varied as the number of investigations undertaken with little or no attempt at proper validation . |
| 11 | She asked with more than a hint of sarcasm in her voice . |
| 12 | A third of the women in the ‘ specials ’ are diagnosed as suffering from a psychopathic disorder , compared with less than a quarter of the men . |
| 13 | Junior hospital doctors may be on call for extended periods and on occasions have to manage with little or no sleep . |
| 14 | Modrow did not return with more than a commitment to set up a joint commission of experts to consider monetary union ( which first met on Feb. 20 in East Berlin ) . |
| 15 | With a little thought and imagination , it is possible to assemble a wealth of off-the-shelf sources of technical material on which DIY CPE meetings could be based with little or no effort . |
| 16 | And it 's something to do with that and an embargo date 's a little bit like that , and in a sense , you may well be able to stop people actually publishing the thing , but they will still know and be working on it if it 's of any importance , so use embargo dates advisedly . |
| 17 | Nothing to do with that and the radiator key ? |
| 18 | Even written patterns consist of figures relating to stitches and rows , interspersed with instructions on what to do with these and the knitting methods involved . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly these devices are distributed with little or no instruction on correct use — thus increasing women 's health problems . |
| 20 | She knew , of course , that men were driven by lusts of the flesh , desires that they satisfied with little or no regard for the females they wanted , but , strangely enough , she would not have considered fitzAlan to be a man to lose control of himself for that reason . |
| 21 | Pied Piper and Merrymaker outings , locally organised specials , and a profusion of enthusiast-orientated railtours were run with little or no coordination between the regions , with the result that there was remarkable disparity in standards and even the level of fares . |
| 22 | Older people are more likely to experience the circumstances that cause ‘ fuel poverty ’ — low income ; poor quality housing with little or no insulation ; and reliance on expensive and inefficient heating systems . |
| 23 | The layman who reads this document is left with little or no idea of what he is undertaking . |
| 24 | ‘ You might enjoy that kind of thing , ’ he said with more than a touch of irritation , ‘ but I have other matters to see to , more important than shifting a few papers about . ’ |
| 25 | This material is largely undated , although it is clear that occupation along Ermine Street pre-dated the defences and continued with little or no change well into the fourth century . |
| 26 | The rise of the ‘ casual ’ — the smartly-dressed stand supporter with a penchant for calling cards , scrap books and well-organised mega-violence spiced with more than a hint of racist overtones — seems a perfect symbol for the times . |
| 27 | A government 's plans are sometimes implemented with little or no regard for an individual 's family plans . |