Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [verb] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note : Set out the detailed terms of engagement as agreed with the instructing clients as appropriate to the nature of the engagement . |
| 2 | While such concerns are admirable in their no-nonsense practicality , they represent a significant decline in ambition when compared with the other criminologies that have appeared during the two hundred years that have passed since Beccaria wrote . |
| 3 | The amounts of money involved , however , pale into insignificance when compared with the vast sums spent each year on older areas such as ‘ big physics ’ . |
| 4 | These radical discussions during gang labour on the roads , and smuggling paled into insignificance when compared with the worst of all seen by the investigators , the widespread encouragement of idleness and vice by regular poor relief in cash . |
| 5 | Secondly , a difference in the ability of the two halves of the brain to utilise advance information in selecting the required stimulus feature for further processing should result in an asymmetrical effect of pre-cueing in the partial report condition as compared with the full report condition . |
| 6 | His own dismissal of deconstruction as a merely textual practice means that he is himself at a loss when faced with the complex conceptual dialectics of the same and the other . |
| 7 | Second , both policies represented a welfare loss when compared with the optimal tariff and equivalent quota policies , with the relative welfare loss from the UK quota policy being greater than that from the EC policy ( -5.98% as opposed to -2.18% ) . |
| 8 | Table 8 shows the result of a t-test ( related , 1-tailed ) which shows the difference in error when pointing with the non-preferred hand before and after adaptation . |
| 9 | Hugh , who never went to church , adopted a tone of peculiar reverence when faced with the old man whose cassock showed traces of tomato sauce . |
| 10 | Yet more than half of the appliances are at risk of damage even personal danger if fitted with the incorrect safety fuse . |
| 11 | But in the general debate on privatisation , he illustrated the higher Civil Service 's preference for the first-class generalist with a philosophic overview as compared with the grubby technician . |
| 12 | The M. eugenii library , consisting of 1.2x10 6 PFU , yielded three positive clones when screened with the human SRY probe . |
| 13 | The standard reaction when faced with the latest prediction from Peters , one of the main catalysts behind the 80s obsession with quality and service , is simply to dismiss him — generously . |
| 14 | The lead is now sent to the Minsterley terminus of the Shrewsbury and Welshpool branch line , but if the Bishop 's Castle Railway were completed the ore destined for South Wales would be conveyed from Churchstoke Station via Craven Arms and the Central Wales Railway , thus effecting a saving of twenty miles in transit as compared with the present route . |
| 15 | Just after the end of the Falklands conflict , my second husband died , suddenly and unexpectedly , almost forty years to the day after he had been wounded and taken prisoner at Tobruk while serving with the Royal Durban Light Infantry in the ill-fated 2nd South African Division . |
| 16 | Consequently , many retailers in the run-up to Christmas were looking at poor weekly sales figures when compared with the same week in 1991 . |
| 17 | The teaching role of the staff nurse or equivalent clinical practitioner may have been seen as something of a Cinderella when compared with the traditional tasks of care giving and developing managerial expertise . |
| 18 | A spokesman at IBM Corp 's East European headquarters in Vienna claimed that the company exceeded the internal sales targets set for the first quarter of 1993 , and succeeded in increasing its turnover in the region by around 30% when compared with the same period last year . |
| 19 | They are far more likely to use their discretion when dealing with the middle-class offender , thus the middle-class offender is far less likely to actually come to court . |
| 20 | The proportion of cases among those with missing data was disproportionately higher in the Maori group , leading to a greater odds ratio when compared with the non-Maori children ( univariate odds ratio of those with full data was 3.42 and for those without full data 4.60 ) . |
| 21 | Normally they do so in such intimate contact that they immediately annihilate each other , because the force of gravity — and hence of antigravity — is weak over tiny distances when compared with the strong nuclear force and the electromagnetic force , which pull the particle and antiparticle inexorably together . |
| 22 | Those choosing to take redundancy received the company 's standard redundancy provisions as agreed with the British Cement Staff Association . |
| 23 | ‘ Three of us were elected to Exhibitions at the same time , and I recall the maturity of his literary powers as contrasted with the callow essays we had to take up to Owen M. Edwards each week . ’ |
| 24 | One gain might come from the elimination of the discount in Gencor 's share price as compared with the total value of its subsidiaries — a discount that has recently been as high as 4 billion rand . |
| 25 | The Labour Party rebuff had impressed the ILP leaders with the difficulties of maintaining contact with the Labour movement while allied with the Communist Party . |
| 26 | Insensitivity while dealing with the bereaved is an endemic problem in our modern world . |
| 27 | Now there 's been a lot of talk about the need to revive employment in Harrogate , and erm the possible future regeneration of the North Yorkshire economy as compared with the existing concern of Leeds and other authorities to regenerate the West Yorkshire authority . |
| 28 | The problem has been yet further exacerbated in the modern age as compared with the patristic period by what one must see as the demise of the doctrine of the trinity and its replacement by a tritheism . |
| 29 | There is much sharper rejection than obtained with the other filters described in this section and , very significantly , there is total rejection when While the basic circuit of figure 8.10(a) is only really suitable for rejection at a fixed frequency , variants exist which are amenable to tuning . |
| 30 | It has been said that the failure of this railway to attract passengers was due primarily to the tedious roundabout rail journey to Newtown via Abermule as compared with the direct and cheaper approach to the market town by bus . |