Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] with the " in BNC.

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1 Will my hon. Friend discuss with the Office of Electricity Regulation the complaints of the Combined Heat and Power Association that existing regulations contain barriers to the progress of combined heat and power , which should be removed ?
2 My little stand to go with the microphone , I had it here probably fallen in my handbag .
3 Before they reached these lines , their right wing merged with the left of Douglas 's front .
4 But her real interest lay with the older woman , whose smoke-blue eyes and distinctive bone-structure proclaimed her Penry 's mother in a way which made an introduction unnecessary .
5 Her nervous system melshed with the dirigible 's , which was n't such a good idea since two of the four motors suddenly cut out and the right-side viewcam blanked .
6 Some believe that new plants flourish if their early growth coincides with the growing of a new moon .
7 Its vast opulence contrasts with the wretched living and working conditions endured by Durham miners and their families .
8 The aim of such covenants is to protect the goodwill of the transferred business and to stop the vendor from using its privileged position to compete with the purchaser in a way likely to damage the value of the business transferred .
9 There was no significant difference between medical and non-medical team members in their diagnostic performance compared with the research psychiatrists .
10 The Cabinet , however , regretted nothing , and , when Parliament re-assembled a week later , the government announced its firm intention to proceed with the new conscription plans .
11 ( The Atlantic , though dominated by an enormous mid-ocean ridge where new sea-floor is being created at a modest rate of about an inch a year , is home to only two very small subduction zones , with volcanoes and trenches , in the Caribbean and the South Sandwich Islands , and therefore is not being destroyed at its edges as rapidly as it is being created in the middle ; the Indian Ocean is similarly undramatic — a mid-ocean ridge once again , but a single subduction zone where its eastern plate collides with the Eurasian Plate and produces the volcanoes that — like Krakatoa — line the southern side of the islands of Java , Sumatra and Timor . )
12 I can say already that many of our singers improved their dramatic quality working with The Gambler , War and Peace , Fiery Angel — it opened their fantasy .
13 Their tough activism contrasted with the Ministry of Agriculture 's considerable suspicion of the Bank 's motives , doubts about whether the government could possibly meet all the conditions of lending that the Bank would require , and sheer reluctance to organize all the preparatory technical studies that would form a part of project preparation .
14 For the reasons we have given we think their contractual entitlement corresponds with the indemnity basis of taxation set out in Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) .
15 Her startled gaze locked with the cold black eyes .
16 Her head shot round , her shocked gasp mingling with the audible hiss of sharply indrawn breath .
17 She received all twelve strokes : lamenting and bawling at each , as the warmth of her masochistic sensuality mingled with the heat of the assault on her burning fundament .
18 Her life-enhancing power contrasts with the stunted hopes and thwarted sexuality of the subdued , passive Daisy — until she returns under hypnotism to a previous incarnation in Regency Brighton and London as a highly sexed witch .
19 As their striding Emperor quivered with the unleashing of its weaponry , Biff sat impotently for only a few moments .
20 ( 19 November 1778 ) In this letter Leopold gave exact details of their financial position finishing with the news that Mozart had ‘ plunged ’ him into debt to the extent of 863 gulden ( Leopold 's salary at the time was little over 500 gulden ) .
21 So intently did Nietzsche interpret Schopenhauer 's " personal " relevance at this time , that he could locate the vital centre of the philosopher 's system in its therapeutic power to help with the practical crises of living .
22 Jelka took another step , her whole body trembling with the anger she felt .
23 Deeper into the reed bed it went , its cryptic plumage merging with the long , thin , creamy-buff , feathery-topped reedstalks — and disappeared from view .
24 Alexandra had come to see that , perhaps two years after the disastrous birthday party , finding her father in the midst of the flock at lambing time , naked to the waist like the other shepherds , his right arm streaked with the birth slime of the lambs whose arrival had been difficult .
25 His begging hand was still outstretched but his other hand now fell from his face so that O could see his gasping mouth labouring with the hard , near-fainting breath of extreme grief .
26 The man was dressed completely in black , his dark cloak covered with the most fantastic symbols : pentangles , stars , moons , suns , and on his head a pointed hat .
27 His rousing address finished with the exciting claim that ‘ IBM has been transforming itself into a solutions company ’ .
28 The man was still in shadow , his hoarse respiration mingling with the chief inspector 's rasping breath .
29 He was not an easy guest ; he arrived in an obvious abstraction of wretchedness and his grandmother , being aware of his growing tendency to argue with the family 's general insistence that out-door exercise was good for whatever ailed one , at first decided to leave him alone to recover .
30 His erotic caresses , his musky masculinity warmed with the scent of his cologne .
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