Example sentences of "[verb] with a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first objective was to develop a Pinot Noir clone which could resist the frosts in the Marne valley and thus enable vineyards in this predominantly Pinot Meunier area to be replanted with a more noble variety . |
| 2 | A nearly white male was captured in the forests of the Maharaja of Rewa in 1951 and mated with a normally coloured tigress . |
| 3 | Thus the unique authority of the Bible as the inspired Word of God came to be stressed with a quite new sharpness over against the established teaching . |
| 4 | However , although addition errors occurred with a generally low frequency , they were considerably more frequent for closed than for open class items . |
| 5 | Surely it was his duty to be ? she told herself , not realising that at that very moment he was sitting listening to a paper being read at a learned society , his mind occupied with a particularly tricky question he intended to ask when the speaker sat down . |
| 6 | The compost is inoculated with a very dilute solution of these extracts which stimulate nitrogen-fixing bacteria and cause the rapid breakdown of the heap . |
| 7 | Rupert went over in his mind the unattached women he knew , beginning with Esther Clovis , the formidable secretary of the Foresight Research Centre , and ending with a pretty young typist who worked in the department of the University where he lectured . |
| 8 | The ultimate source is Sir John Hawkins , who remarks , in what appears to be a personal recollection , that Handel had ‘ a favourite Rucker harpsichord , the keys whereof , by incessant practise , were hollowed like the bowl of a spoon ’ In justice to Hawkins it must be stated that he does have a reputation for being , for his time , a careful scholar , so it is unfortunate that this brief , almost casual remark , should have been embellished with a little fanciful romancing that appears to be added only to enliven his text with some colourful anecdote . |
| 9 | Breakfast means making a manful start on the average per capita daily consumption of 9 lb of patisseries and 2 lb of butter , washed down with all the coffee produced by 1 lb of beans , sweetened with a truly papal ration of — yes , every day — 13 lb of sugar . |
| 10 | He even has his own chair in the lounge , close to the fire , and it is decorated with a beautifully embroidered head cloth , displaying his auspicious title , the handsome work of one of Scourie 's regular lady guests . |
| 11 | East Lindsey is an area of Lincolnshire blessed with a very great variety of attractions of interests . |
| 12 | Generally rejuvenation terraces are cut into the solid rock or consist of a rock bench veneered with a comparatively small thickness of alluvium . |
| 13 | The work starts with a very action-orientated point of view : the functional role of the mind is to support adaptive , intelligent action . |
| 14 | He then entered the University College , London , to study zoology and stayed on to work with a very distinguished man , J B S Halldane on the genetics and behaviour of the fruit fly . |
| 15 | The usual trouble with nebulæ is that their surface brightness is low , and it is usually best to work with a comparatively low magnification . |
| 16 | It is essential to work with a more complex picture of who the elderly are and of their role in society than the simple , depressing picture of a costly burden . |
| 17 | The Beta release of presentations has come with a quite large amount of pre-drawn template material , which will be included with the final release , and which makes actually forming a presentation very simple . |
| 18 | Alkali cleaners : These products are often little more than mildly alkaline detergents formulated from anionic-non-ionic detergent blends with a very small proportion of caustic soda and balancing sequestrant . |
| 19 | It concludes with a darkly satisfactory meeting of ends in the circle of doom — ‘ there is nothing sure in mortality but mortality , ’ Vindice concludes . |
| 20 | Starting with outright animation , the sequence concludes with a most unusual instance of overt travelling matte . |
| 21 | Parsons concludes with a purposely provocative comment about an actress : ‘ Great pair of tits … ’ |
| 22 | Three patients with complete obstruction , presented with a relatively prolonged symptom free , ‘ silent ’ period before diagnosis . |
| 23 | They attended the Reception afterwards when each organisation was presented with a beautifully engraved crystal goblet to mark the great occasion . |
| 24 | In RU 486 trials in Britain , most doctors gave prostaglandin as a vaginal pessary slowly absorbed with a less violent reaction . |
| 25 | So , ’ he added with a slightly twisted smile , ‘ I just concentrated on business , and became even more of a workaholic than ever ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Go home with Lucy and get some rest , and do n't worry your pretty head about the business , ’ her father added with a slightly guilty air , as if suddenly recalling her convalescent status . |
| 27 | Some of us prefer to keep our feet on solid ground , ’ she added with a deliberately contrived laugh . |
| 28 | I wonder if we could just finish with a very brief comment from you in a positive sense as to what would be your advice to somebody that 's unemployed ? |
| 29 | However , this will be done with a very broad sweep to permit the focus in later chapters to concentrate on what is the essential and most interesting feature of routine policing in Northern Ireland : namely , how societal divisions affect and constrain it . |
| 30 | Given the benefit of hindsight , Scotland could have done with a more demanding opening and might also have deployed the likes of Murry Walker and Carl Hogg first out , instead of waiting for the taxing fixture against Nadroga . |