Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policies of economic redistribution to the less well off met with resistance from skilled workers at a time of low economic growth . |
| 2 | The conclusions we reach in this chapter , therefore , are that : MOST SEDIMENTATION IN THE CONTINENTAL AREAS IS LATERAL RATHER THAN VERTICAL AND IS NOT NECESSARILY DIRECTLY CONNECTED WITH SUBSIDENCE . |
| 3 | The Northern Ireland Act 1982 provides for the existing Assembly ( which lacks both legislative and executive powers ) to make proposals for the transfers to the Assembly of legislative and executive powers but such proposals must be such as to be ‘ likely to command widespread acceptance throughout the community ’ and although attempts are currently under way to evolve such proposals , they have not so far met with success . |
| 4 | that this conference congratulates our Bolshevik comrades of Russia on their splendid efforts to bring about a general peace , and their unflinching opposition to the brigands of international capital , though we deplore the fact that their efforts to stir the workers of all the belligerents to revolutionary action has not so far met with success , yet we promise to do all in our power to awaken the proletariat of this country to class consciousness so that a speedy end may overtake the tyranny of capital . |
| 5 | It 's also very good made with jam , lemon or cheese . |
| 6 | The other is coming to terms with a more liberal society where dissent and public protest are no longer automatically met with assault and arrest . |
| 7 | Some of the outlines are no longer completely filled with colour . |
| 8 | Apart from the strong suspicion that the revenue officers of Wigtown were rather too closely associated with smuggling , their failure to determine at their first survey the proper quantity of dutiable iron imported by Bailie Hooks suggested a method of changing the composition of the town council when the vital election of a delegate to represent the burgh at the ensuing parliamentary election was to be held . |