Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a test of causative potency is used then logically every case should end with a 50/50 apportionment , as each of the plaintiff 's and defendant 's conduct is a cause . |
| 2 | It therefore seems conceivable that susceptibility to both type I and type II diabetes is determined during gestation or infancy in response to nutrition , and research should respond with a new focus on early events . |
| 3 | Surely no more appropriately-named horse could win with a General Election only five days away from the race itself . |
| 4 | Baydon Star 's Ascot victim Cadency could do with a stronger gallop than at Huntingdon last time to help him settle , but he can justify the journey from Newmarket for the Scottish Power Handicap Hurdle . |
| 5 | ‘ We hate to detain our most welcome guests , especially when they have … ’ he looked Anna May up and down as if his mind could do with a good Chinese laundering ‘ … other urgent business to attend to . ’ |
| 6 | The programme will conclude with a multi-country study of policy issues and policy processes in at least three of the countries studied . |
| 7 | This chapter will begin with a brief survey of " hearing children read " as it has been popularly practised . |
| 8 | This type must begin with a continental-margin orogen on the overriding plate and be transformed into an intercontinental collision orogen when continental crust on the underthrusting plate reaches the subduction zone . |
| 9 | Senator Crowninshield had been sympathetic to the problems a child might have with a famous parent . |
| 10 | In other words , they are trying to develop a pump that a village caretaker could maintain with a single spanner . |
| 11 | Late last year ( UX No 362 ) , Phil Hestor , vice president of systems and technology at IBM 's Advanced Workstation Division in Austin , Texas , described how multi-processing for the RS/6000 range would start with a four-way offering rising to a maximum of 16 CPUs , with clustering required thereafter : it looks like IBM is sticking to that tack . |
| 12 | At festivals she went back home and often stayed away for several days , despite the knowledge that her late return would meet with an endless round of angry curses . |
| 13 | Declarer is marked with at least ace-king to five — or more likely six — in diamonds , and so if you cover the jack with the queen declarer will win with a top honour and West 's discard will make your ten the subject of a marked finesse on the second round . |
| 14 | The gallery will open with a major exhibition of Romanesque sculpture ( 22 April-19 July ) , a subject of passionate interest to Henry Moore , who wrote on Italian Romanesque sculpture . |
| 15 | Money The full Moon in your Second House of money could coincide with a minor financial hiccup , but on the whole this is a good time for you . |
| 16 | The investigation should begin with a 2 × 2 grid . |
| 17 | Maintaining this configuration requires that the state apparatus should operate with a considerable degree of autonomy from the dominant class fraction , and that the leaders who assemble and co-ordinate the ruling ‘ power bloc ’ should appear on the political stage as independent actors . |
| 18 | For the first time population could increase with a declining grain price and a less than commensurate food output , subsisting on grain imports paid for by manufactures ; ‘ It is one of the most striking ironies of intellectual history that Malthus should have fashioned his analysis just at the time when it was about to cease to be applicable to the country in which he lived ’ ( Wrigley 1986 ) . |
| 19 | Daddy could do with a nice little doze I know that . |
| 20 | The evening will end with a spectacular firework display over the Thames . |
| 21 | Whilst in practice day to day supervision may rest with a single partner or small committee of partners , the rule imposes professional responsibility on every member of a firm to see that each one of its offices is properly supervised . |
| 22 | But otherwise the main principles of planning law , laid down in 1909 , were maintained : future development should accord with an approved town planning scheme ; compensation to be payable to landowners injuriously affected ; and betterment to be payable to a local authority when an increase in land values accrues as a result of planning proposals . |
| 23 | Article 44 states , ‘ If the government requires , the Assembly must pronounce with a single vote on the whole or part of the text in question making only those amendments accepted by the government ’ , which enables the government to bypass the scrutiny procedures ( such as they are ) entirely . |
| 24 | It is therefore expected that an inversion event would coincide with a major phase of migration , as previously suggested by Oele et al. ( 1981 ) . |
| 25 | The event will begin with a witty and uplifting account from one of our regular writers , Jeannette Kupfermann , on why life begins at 40 . |
| 26 | Fax modems are sill a bit finicky and despite these standards , a small question mark always hangs over whether your fax modem will work with a given package . |
| 27 | Then , indeed , existence will not need to resemble our past life , and a person can die with a vague yet justified hope . |
| 28 | Chantel can sing with a big fucking . |
| 29 | In planning ward staffing , the ward manager should start with a clear view of the number of staff she is likely to require at various times of the day . |
| 30 | I doubled up , retching and heaving , feeling my guts contract like a balling fist inside me ; involuntary , alive , like a woman must feel with a kicking child . |