Example sentences of "[noun sg] with [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The usual qualification required for admission to study for a research degree and for some taught postgraduate courses is a first degree with an excellent or very good classification ( first or upper second class honours in the UK ) . |
2 | She was sent to a local predominantly majority school in Washington , and although credible from a political point of view , the move presented the impressionable girl with a confusing and often unstable lifestyle . |
3 | However , if you left a child under 12 ( England and Wales ) or under seven ( Scotland ) in your home with an unguarded or inadequately guarded fire and they were injured as a result , you would be legally responsible . |
4 | Bratby combined a talent for self-publicity with a bold but essentially traditional style indebted to Sickert , producing a large body of work of variable quality . |
5 | A short bubble-ride up to 1850m brought us to L'Altipiano , where we fortified ourselves for the afternoon 's skiing with a lengthy and very enjoyable lunch . |
6 | In response to criticism that SCS would be damaged by amalgamation with the smaller and less successful Edmonton Society , he argued that the SCS |
7 | There could have been a serious road accident with a dozen or so frightened animals careering about country lanes . |
8 | I am confident in the creation of DPA that the employees of both ports will now have a common objective of serving the shipping community with the continuing and ever improving level of service . |
9 | Helena Naulls was in the day room with the dozen or so other old women and the two old men . |
10 | A woman with big beautiful hands who smokes too much writes down my name and what she needs to know and what I need to tell , and another worker goes through the same routine with a serene and rather silent woman in her early thirties , with three children and two plastic bags containing toys and toiletries — the mark of a mother on the run , all you can grab in a quick getaway . |
11 | The author set the context for his story with a lengthy but fairly conventional genealogy of the kings of France , tracing their origins back to the Trojans as Frankish historians had done since Merovingian times . |
12 | It is , of course , history that what happened was not a crash programme of chauffeur training , but the lateral thought of do-it-yourself driving — the owner driver with the cheaper and more simple car such as the Model T. |
13 | That all this was long gone and impossible to recover , except through industrialisation , social change and arduous struggle with a resilient and increasingly nationalist foe only made life in the eastern borders even more frustrating . |
14 | After being told it was within 0.1 accurate , I found another friend with a different and much more expensive pH meter . |
15 | Most people who made the pilgrimage found it well worth their while , not only for the quality of the music-making but also for a quality of staging and design that pointedly bypassed the often musically ruinous fads of post-war directors ' opera in order to re-establish contact with an older and still valid tradition that goes back , with a passing glance at the work of Wieland Wagner , through Gründgens and Reinhardt to Roller and Mahler and , in some respects , Wagner himself . |
16 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
17 | Section 2 to read : The Coordinator as part of his/her responsibility is part Area Secretary for a geographical area with no more than approximately a quarter of a million population . |
18 | He would pop in and out of the office now and then , fulfilling his supervisory role and looking as if he were a man with an important but very secret mission . |
19 | Any system in which adaptation becomes the sole determinant of structure will be incompatible with the idea that Nature has been created in accordance with a harmonious or regularly structured grid of relationships . |
20 | And it is the same logic which attributes those few out of the 120,000 officers who pursue schemes designed to accelerate promotion with the derisory and metaphorically ephemeral classification of ‘ high-flyers ’ or ‘ butterfly boys ’ . |
21 | An informer 's report ( 1666 ) accusing him of treason with the Dutch and always opposing ‘ kingly government ’ was ignored . |
22 | This research will contrast this approach with a wider and more general one where household living standards depend on household size and income but also household working behaviour and future incomes . |
23 | When she was n't explaining that she and the libbers were on the same side really , Mrs Travers took pains to point out that FAMILY had no quarrel with the poor or socially inadequate ; it was just that she wanted to pay tribute to the unsung millions of women ( and men ) who lived normal lives , did not swap roles , get divorces or abortions , become homeless or batter their children ( or their wives ) ; people who faced misfortune with re-sourcefulness and courage and without recourse to public funds . |
24 | It helps if you can bring yourself to take a very positive line of thinking about each problem as it comes along , being as practical and objective as possible , for sometimes the limitations of home life with an old and possibly infirm parent may seem to close round you like a prison . |
25 | A set of surgical tools and syringes lay on the white-sheeted top , and she focused on a scalpel with a small but wickedly sharp blade . |
26 | UK company Software Partners ( part of GST , the people behind Timeworks ) has stepped into this bells-and-whistles world with a new and quite large range of simple to use , very low cost programs that are single minded and , for the most part , single use . |
27 | The oral shields is a rounded pentagonal with an obtuse or slightly rounded proximal angle . |
28 | I WILL thrust splendidly into the cut-glass sky , flanked on the east by Lake Michigan , a convincing fake beach if ever you saw one ; I WILL inject the Indian summer glare with a brittle but somehow reassuring fake coastal wind ; I WILL present a clean front , a scrubbed facade for the city 's countless visitors , and at least one vegetarian take-out that 's just big enough to accommodate all of Consolidated . |
29 | The imagination of danger keeps us immersed in a story ; the adventurous court it in actual life ; the unadventurous relate with gusto how they were carried off to hospital with an undiagnosed and probably fatal illness , as a vivid patch in an otherwise uneventful life . |
30 | And yet in the same lecture he had expressed his belief that the tradition of which he spoke was drawing to a close ; and , in the poem , the encounter with the familiar but only half-glimpsed figure is charged with a sense of transitoriness and loss : |