Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] [noun] with [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But the Trust claims it ca n't afford to carry out her wishes , and after an all-day meeting with proespective buyers at Townsends Solicitors in Swindon , it announced tonight that the manor has been sold . |
2 | Microsoft Corp announced that its chief financial officer and executive vice-president of worldwide operations Frank Gaudette , 57 , died early on Friday after an eight-month fight with lymphatic cancer ; the Redmond company says that it has not thought about a successor . |
3 | The organisers stated : ‘ Our self-set pre-condition to make use of these non-museal living spaces and workshops for our projects is to consider in each of the exhibition concepts the residents and history of this part of the city : former Jewish district which today may be rundown and falling apart , but which , in the long run , will belong to the government district of an emerging capital with modern architecture . ’ |
4 | Always ready for a dip I leapt into the water and grabbed hold of an elderly lady with neat little curls and bifocals on the end of her nose . |
5 | Cooperation seems to be less of an immediate necessity with market-determined exchange rates , but coordination of national policies still seems desirable if conflict and economic stagnation are to be avoided in the long run . |
6 | However , Israel has consistently refused a return of refugees except within the framework of an overall settlement with neighbouring Arab states . |
7 | ‘ DBS was planned in terms of an economic competition with other European or American projects rather than as part of a communications policy : the problem was approached with a concern with the conduits not with the programmes , with the technologies involved , not with the services . |
8 | Some member states , for example , were beginning to register large trade deficits while West Germany 's trade surplus continued to grow to embarrassingly large proportions : these discrepancies had made the national governments more interested in the idea of an economic union with coordinated monetary and budgetary policies . |
9 | The separate international personality of an international organisation with treaty-making power sets up another third party relationship that did not arise under the 1969 Convention , that of the member States of an organisation to a treaty concluded between the organisation and a State , or another organisation . |
10 | HCIMA is an international body ; part of an international industry with strong representation in Europe with access to the European Parliament , as well as influencing hospitality and tourism throughout the world via our spread of members in over 90 countries and 16 international groups . |
11 | The Department of Transport , not the DTI , will be the sponsoring body for the privatisation of BR , but any hopes that Heseltine may harbour of an industrial troika with new Transport Secretary John MacGregor and Chancellor Norman Lamont , who helped to defeat his leadership bid , may prove overoptimistic . |
12 | Welshman Gibbs , who was stretchered off near the end of an ill-tempered match with bruised ankle ligaments , will be out of action for at least 10 days . |
13 | Moreover , they come on top of an unhappy experience with foreign currency borrowing for most of the Eastern European countries during the Seventies . |
14 | Most models to date have consisted of an iron-porphyrin complex with various surrounding bulky groups . |
15 | Books of an old-fashioned sort with British Constitution in their title describe significant laws , conventions and institutions . |
16 | I asked the proprietor of an antique shop with Byzantine and Roman artefacts on display ( see photo ) if anything in his window has been found with a metal detector . |
17 | They named him Krakonosc , and gave this giant the appearance of an old man with long , flowing beard , dressed in forest green , with a moss-woven hat . |
18 | King James continued in the series of follies which were to lose him his throne , including the consecration of a papal nuncio in St James 's Chapel , the replacement of Protestant officers by Catholics in the army , and the creation of an Ecclesiastical Commission with wide and illegal disciplinary powers . |
19 | Although Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze referred in Vladivostok on Sept. 4 to the possibility of an international conference on all the problems of the Middle East , his spokesman Gennady Gerasimov explicitly rejected on Sept. 6 any " linkage " of an Iraqi withdrawal with other issues . |
20 | He could read the words — canal , lock , barge — but the illustrations of an urban canal with tall , industrial buildings and long painted boats portrayed an unknown landscape . |
21 | Next year there will be a big rodeo on the Bitches in the spring and midsummer one for beginners at Whitesands , like an informal symposium with free entry and a week of polo and fun competitions . |
22 | It is the hunchback who approaches her , the face very much alive and curious , like an intelligent cat with small slanting eyes . |
23 | But , drawn willy-nilly into the political ring , he went , like an amateur boxer with insufficient professional coaching , from one blunder to another . |
24 | I had disguised myself with an old cardigan with faded leather elbow patches and a copy of the Daily Express . |
25 | It 's a mild type , but if not treated it could suddenly develop into an acute form with increased coughing , loss of appetite , fever and fast breathing . ’ |
26 | A door from the library led through into an oak-panelled room with tall mullioned windows . |
27 | It was changing into an enormous project with tentacle-like bureaucratic things . |
28 | The course the strike followed in the village was of an initial passive consensus led by activists , which with the onset of local strikebreaking ( Sept 1984 ) became transformed into an active consensus with widespread mobilisation . |
29 | As an Iranian-American Jew with Iraqi grandparents , I experienced the unfolding of the Gulf war with mixed emotions . |
30 | The 3in faceplate and screwchuck , has a central position for use as an ordinary screwchuck with small workpieces , and three holes in the flange for use as a faceplate on larger work . |