Example sentences of "[adj] with [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Both these formulations are consistent with the definitions of pragmatics as " meaning minus semantics " or as the contribution of context to language understanding .
2 In my Bill , for which I seek a Second Reading today , the provision is that Parliament should be elected by the single transferable vote in the first instance , but thereafter , in subsequent elections , Parliament should be free to determine its own electoral system as long as that is consistent with the principles of proportionality .
3 General SVQs offer the chance to provide such a range of programmes in Scotland : a good case in point is the new general SVQ in arts and social sciences , which is entirely consistent with the proposals for SCOTCERT .
4 Reductions in morbidity were consistent with the findings for mortality , but fewer data were available .
5 This suggests that its stress drop was relatively high , which is consistent with the frequencies of vibration recorded , which were high compared to those of the Lleyn earthquake .
6 Since it was impossible to envisage the use of nuclear weapons in any way consistent with the laws of war , and since great and apparently law-abiding Powers possessed and threatened to use them , they must be held to be simply beyond the scope of international law ,
7 And at the lowest level in the EC , they are also fully consistent with the prospects for recovery this year . ’
8 Whether this is true in developed countries is yet to be seen : although Ellison 's 1932 study in the United Kingdom is consistent with the results in figure 1 , it preceded immunisation and antibiotics and hence is not comparable in 1992 .
9 Second , there was the need to construct a professional scholarly stance upon which to build modes of training consistent with the kinds of sensibility which would enable critical evaluation , not only of literature , but of fellow professionals .
10 But the former was impossible with the twins in tow and the latter unthinkable given the length of time he 'd have to wait for one on a Sunday .
11 It is easy with the advantages of hindsight to think of the political structure of eighteenth-century England , with all its defects , as the best in Europe .
12 In America today modernity as a term synonymous with the problems of life in the advanced societies has become almost a cliche .
13 The international trend is towards an ever greater degree of devolution ; here the tendency has been to centralise , and the issues of autonomy , which most locals want are confused with the mechanics of finance .
14 When I was eyeball-to-eyeball with the humiliations of puberty , my greatest hero was skiffler Lonnie Donegan .
15 There would be biscuits and little cakes galore ( including gingerbread men and chocolate fancies iced with the initials of bride and groom ) to flank the towering tiers of the wedding cake .
16 Gray 's ‘ Elegy ’ , of course , can be read as a lament for the undeveloped mind : ‘ But knowledge to their eyes her ample page / Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll …
17 Wherever they go they are escorted by a vast armada of local dignitaries , including the Lord Lieutenant , the Mayor or Mayoress , complete with the chains of office , the Chief Constable of Police and every last member of the town council .
18 This time the four definitive gricers ' bibles of the time come in one small , hardbacked ( and thus very easily pocketed ) volume with many pictures and full shed lists ( complete with the names of Loco Superintendents and Chief Mechanical Engineers ? ) which would have been important information for spotters of the time .
19 One of those who had attended the initial meeting in September 1967 , an independent radical Matt O'Leary , had been dissatisfied with the aims of NICRA .
20 The recent price rises and the subsequent decline in general standards of living had left whole sections of the urban population dissatisfied with the results of reform .
21 Good with the kids at school , too .
22 Both the City and the CBI are still unhappy with the clauses in spite of some changes from the original draft , as they feel the legislation will make it harder for companies to communicate with analysts , fund managers and other City representatives .
23 Now , almost sic years after presentation , this patient is alive and well with no signs of recurrence .
24 In seemed that Honda was therefore able to get the benefits from the relationship between the companies , without becoming involved with the responsibilities of ownership .
25 The Tiller girls have been high-kicking with the stars of stage and screen since 1896 .
26 The first known students of language in the Western tradition , the scholars of Greece and Rome , were aware of these different approaches too , and divided grammar from rhetoric , the former being concerned with the rules of language as an isolated object , the latter with how to do things with words , to achieve effects , and communicate successfully with people in particular contexts .
27 Acknowledging the concepts of Dansereau ( 1957 ) that man creates new genotypes and new ecosystems , he considers nature without man as natural biogeography in Part I of his book and then uses this as a datum against which to set the larger Part II in which cultural biogeography is concerned with the effects of man in changing the genetic make-up of plants and animals , in redistributing them over the earth 's surface , and in altering the structure of many ecosystems .
28 Section 5.2 is concerned with the effects of inflation .
29 Lubow , Rifkin , and Alek ( 1976 ) have explicitly investigated the role of the context in a series of experiments concerned with the effects of pre-exposure on discrimination learning in both children and in rats .
30 Indeed in one section , concerned with the effects of improvement and major repairs on the number of houses to be replaced , the report comments that ‘ Solomon himself would not have known the correct answer ’ .
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