Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as the Science Museum is concerned it 's a question of helping it with the whole game of raising finance and all the other things they have to do . |
| 2 | This is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘ union ’ and is part of the Hindu philosophy of self-discipline which teaches self-control , with the aim of becoming one with the impersonal god force . |
| 3 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 4 | What are the prospects of obtaining a quantum theory of gravity and of unifying it with the other three categories of interactions ? |
| 5 | If the chest is forced open , the same trap will be triggered , save that there 's no chance of defusing it with the extra lock-turn . |
| 6 | Morceli says he is ‘ 80 per cent ’ confident of providing himself with the perfect 23rd birthday present by eclipsing Eamonn Coghlan 's ten-year-old mile mark of 3min 49.78sec but Norman believes other records will also tumble , with Colin Jackson in the 60m hurdles and Murray providing the British challenge . |
| 7 | The gerbil does need to be examined properly and there are ways and means of doing it with the minimum amount of stress . |
| 8 | Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time . |
| 9 | As for the Communist Party , the Executive repeated its belief in the complete inadvisability of associating it with the Labour Party in the public eye . |
| 10 | I am indebted to our Home Improvements Editor , David Holloway , for providing me with the following information relating to the 2.5 per cent VAT increase announced in the recent Budget . |
| 11 | I AM indebted to the Esperanto Centre in London for providing me with the following gem , under the heading ‘ Unfortunate Translations ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I have devised a number of exquisite tortures for little boys who break bottles ’ he wrote , ‘ such as circumcising them with the jagged fragments ’ . |
| 13 | Anything to divert his attention , to prevent him from labelling her with the cruel names she 'd last heard on Marcus 's tongue . |
| 14 | ( viii ) Remove the coverslips from their chambers and transfer them into PBS containing 0.1 % Tween-20 ( PBS — Tween ) before incubating them with the specific antibodies or other reagents . |
| 15 | In summary then the difficulties for the Archive lie in trying to identify users ’ needs and in providing them with the appropriate service on a range from an on-line determined access ( in which the Archive itself is relatively ‘ transparent ’ ) through to a supportive guided approach . |
| 16 | She had succeeded in damning him with the faintest of eulogies . |
| 17 | Although technically the reform had taken effect on Nov. 1 , Yeltsin told the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet that it was simply impossible to proceed with the Shatalin plan without co-ordinating it with the central government . |
| 18 | And diamonds were a man 's best friend when it came to making it with the opposite sex . |
| 19 | Mosley , with his combative language and stormy oratory , proved later to be no sluggard at defending himself with the good old British fist . |
| 20 | He looked at her doubtfully , as troubled at leaving her with the distressed child as Edna had been at leaving Liza with Celia a short time before . |
| 21 | But it means , too , transforming these traditions , by imbuing them with the woman-centered values of nurturance and intimacy , as necessary and legitimate goals of political life . |
| 22 | This relationship is indicated by equating it with the first m of the oral plate is the second area . |
| 23 | In the eighteenth century the princes of continental Europe had become absolute by gaining direct control of the armed forces and by allying themselves with the landowning nobility . |
| 24 | Academician Druzhinin held that the object of the framers of the statutes was " to retain in the hands of the gentry estate the maximum quantity of land and to facilitate the gentry 's transition to more profitable farming based on free labour by providing them with the essential capital and reserves of the necessary manpower " . |
| 25 | In Cuba , for example , ‘ figures of the Wars of Independence , like Marti and Maceo , or of the 1933 revolution [ against the dictator Machado ] … give the revolution legitimacy by linking it with the historic past and , at least in the case of the heroes of 1933 , they have been in a very real sense the inspiration of the present revolutionary leaders , to a far greater degree than Marx and Lenin' ( Lambert : 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 26 | Their size can be assessed by comparing them with the original spread in the chronic sickness rates ; this will be discussed at length in the next section . |
| 27 | The reader may like to reflect on his/her own planning approach and assess its validity by comparing it with the following checklist of factors which facilitate effective planning . |
| 28 | But whereas the long version refers only to the words in Lamentations 1:12 ( O all ye that pass by the way , attend , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ) , the short version incorporates all the references to focus more sharply on the organic relationship between man and Christ whose natural growth is blasted by sin : And only in the short version does the meditator acknowledge this by identifying himself with the penitent thief pleading for pardon to be extended to him , and confessing his failure to acknowledge Christ as the true source of his integrity : In both versions the meditator admits that the very ability to recognise the life-giving power in Christ is a sign that he in fact has the love of God even if he does not feel it : And in both , as the meditator sees his betrayal and sense of deprivation borne by Christ in His words : " My god , my dere god , why hastow al forsakyn me … ( 89. cf.102 ) he imagines himself lying down among the bones of dead men on mount Calvary , taking the foot of the Cross in his arms , the stench of death in his nostrils . |
| 29 | Noise/horror undoes the self by confronting it with the other that dwells within it , the monstrous potential latent in us all , waiting to be catalysed by an extreme predicament ; what I 've called the new psychedelia undoes the self by letting it drift off and disappear into the otherwordly . |