Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its plot is a ‘ circle of love ’ , as a succession of couplings begins with a nocturnal encounter between a whore and a soldier , and continues as the soldier has sex with a housemaid , the maid with her young master , the master with a married woman , and so on until we reach a count who returns us to the whore . |
| 2 | This room successfully combined the old and the new , betraying an appreciation of quality spiced with a stark , functional modernity . |
| 3 | BP reported a first half net loss of £717m compared with a net profit of £834m in the same period last year . |
| 4 | Ask Computer Systems Inc has reported a third quarter net loss of $674,000 compared with a profit last time of $2.0m , on turnover that declined 7.1% at $100.5m ; the net loss for the nine months was $4.6m , down from a loss last time of $55.9m , which was struck after a $54.8m writedown of goodwill in acquisitions , on turnover up 2.7% at $297.7m . |
| 5 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 6 | Eventually , some land was found , and the lady who finds it psychologically impossible for the moment to afford a piece of meat parted with a substantial sum without demur . |
| 7 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 8 | The owner of a piece of land contracted with a building firm for the building of a factory on the land . |
| 9 | This elementary piece of wire moving with a velocity dl/dt contributes to the e.m.f. the amount which may be rewritten in the form |
| 10 | If you 're in search of Christmas presents with a classic look this year , why not take a look at the Sanderson range of festive gifts ? |
| 11 | At length , among music and spotlights , flags and banners , the black-clad figure of Mosley arrived with a uniformed bodyguard of more than fifty supporters . |
| 12 | On the contrary , the idea of the Kingdom had a long history in the life of Israel , and the coming of Christ coincided with a feverish wave of expectancy within the nation . |
| 13 | The advantage of daylight shooting with a rifle comes at dusk and dawn , when substantial numbers of rabbits may be out feeding . |
| 14 | Does the change of lineup come with a resurgence in enthusiasm for the new Motorhead ? |
| 15 | His note consisted of a few words , impersonal , noncommittal , on a tiny scrap of paper written with a burned matchstick . |
| 16 | Some stop-gap funding was provided immediately for British Lion and this was followed , in April 1949 , by the setting up of the National Film Finance Corporation which the Board of Trade provided with a revolving fund of £5 million ( expanded to £6 million in 1950 ) . |
| 17 | In four out of the five authorities studied in depth by the research team , ‘ the provision of a statement appeared in the majority of cases to coincide with a decision to transfer a child to a special school ’ . |
| 18 | The story of solon started with a phytochemical investigation of the oriental medicinal plant Sophora subprostrata from which the ancient Chinese drug guangdougen , used in traditional medicine for the treatment of digestive disorders , is prepared . |
| 19 | This may be to acquaynt you that their is a pore yong women in oure Towne of Asston-underlyne infected with a filthy deceassed called the French poxe and shee saith shee was defiled by one Henry Heyworth a maryed man , but soe it is the report of that dessease occasioneth neighbours to deny hir harbour and shee is enforced to lye in the streetes and in great danger to bee starved , I do humbly intreate your worshipps to take it into your consideration and to grant your Order that the pore woman may be provyded for to prevent starveing , either upon the parrish charges , or upon the Costs of the said Heyworth whom she saith hath spoiled hir , whether yiur worshipps shall think fitt |
| 20 | The day was hot and humid , the field of play rippled with a heat haze as the draw was made to split the six teams into two leagues . |
| 21 | The proportion of tumours associated with a normal surrounding mucosa showed no significant differences between the two main types . |
| 22 | They feature prominently in his present selection which includes Janine Antoni , Rachel Evans , Damien Hirst , Jeff Koons , Simon Linke , Paul McCarthy , Marc Quinn , Charles Ray , Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith , each creating work of humour laced with a thread of menace . |
| 23 | For example , regular monthly contribution of £30 for 15 years from August , 1976 , would have given you a return of £19,520 compared with a return of £10,261 in a building society higher rate account . |
| 24 | I 'm not saying you will always be successful or that it will never cost you a penny , nor am I advising those almost too timid to open a can of beans to tinker with a complex and potentially dangerous machine if they feel it 's beyond them ; we all have our limitations . |
| 25 | Their work can be seen as a range of attempts to deal with a shared set of problems which have perhaps been most clearly formulated by the greatest among them — by Bloch and Febvre ( the founders of the journal ) in the first generation , by Braudel in the second , and more recently by Le Roy Ladurie . |
| 26 | The Company offers a wide range of benefits associated with a modern and progressive employer including : |
| 27 | Blaese and his colleagues have also shown that a mouse glioma can be completely ablated by treatment with acyclovir following a stereotactic implant of fibroblasts infected with a retrovirus copying the herpes virus gene for thymidine kinase . |
| 28 | By ill fortune the period of upheaval coincided with a large increase in the volume of work of the higher criminal courts , resulting in problems of delay that still are not eradicated . |
| 29 | If the house was formerly in the sole name of the husband it would be quite appropriate for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title commencing with a good root of title ( although in practice it seems to be accepted that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase ) ; but in the case of a house already in joint names it is thought that this could be dispensed with , the wife 's solicitor assuming that a proper investigation of title to the property was made at the time when the house was purchased by the husband and the wife . |
| 30 | If the house was formerly in the sole name of the husband , it would be appropriate for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title commencing with a good root of title , although it seems to be accepted in practice that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase . |