Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Struggling into yet another of the brief garments bought for her by Ross — her trembling fingers fumbling awkwardly with the small scraps of material — Laura dearly wished that she had the courage to chicken out of the whole affair . |
| 2 | Similarly , the Scandinavian antipathy for power-hungry , dominant task leaders in groups fits poorly with the German tolerance of dominant power-holders as a means of getting things done . |
| 3 | In such an optimistic climate it was easier for national governments and interest groups to go along with the economic ambitions of the EEC ; it was not seen as a great threat to their own concerns . |
| 4 | It was like a valedictory speech , possibly the last big statement he would utter as Leader of the Opposition , the opportunity to deliver a personal justification of what he did to try and ensure that Labour 's values joined together with the popular vote to save the party from the political wilderness . |
| 5 | The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made . |
| 6 | This one point alone has almost certainly caused many novice flyers to struggle on with an unmanageable model which could easily be completely transformed by correct adjustment . |
| 7 | Orbitel Mobile Communications Ltd says it is to launch its latest series of Groupe Speciale Mobile phones at CeBit ‘ 93 , in Hannover : improvements to come in with the new 901 series include improved battery life , speedier battery charging , and ‘ added functionality ’ , although Orbitel is not saying yet exactly what it means by this ; the series is to include a combined mobile and transportable phone , providing both in-car and portable functionality , the company says . |
| 8 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 9 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 10 | Unfortunately at the press conference our careful recommendations about the importance of Standard English were presented in such a way that many journalists came away with the false impression that we did not mind if children spoke dialect rather than Standard English . |
| 11 | Members of La Fura Dels Baus came up with the violent cartoon ‘ performance ’ — executives running manically on huge treadmills , hyper-fetishistic female fatales staging S&M routines , gold-painted bicycling centaurs and the metal minotaur . |
| 12 | Calvin and his successors came up with the dark doctrine of predestination to explain the fearful paradox of God 's love and his implacable wrath . |
| 13 | Hope had a reliable baritone and kept time well : the words came out with an Irish twang to them . |
| 14 | None of the districts came out with a clear resolution of the underlying planning difficulties , and the clear cut local decision in favour of closures which the RHA had hoped for , was not forthcoming . |
| 15 | Animals may avoid being eaten by active flight , as do moths escaping from bats ; by camouflage , which requires behavioural adaptations to fit in with the visual markings ; by warning coloration , to teach predators to avoid sickening prey ; by mimicry of successfully warning-coloured species ; or by aggregation in groups , such as the schools of fish . |
| 16 | • Many environmental consultancies produce publications to help clients keep up with the fast changing world of environmental legislation and regulatory affairs issues . |
| 17 | This might be called ‘ triangular ’ bargaining , i.e. negotiations in which each of three parties deals bilaterally with the other two . |
| 18 | It is also approachable at the other end of the spectrum , which is filled by the middle-class peasant or designer-green who has a few pet animals to fit in with a rural lifestyle . |
| 19 | Mostly , it has negative effects , enabling the richer nations to race away with an increasing share of the world 's economic wealth , often ‘ earned ’ by exploiting the resources of the poor nations ( see p. 226 ) . |
| 20 | His eyes lit up with a mocking little smile . |
| 21 | Fulfilling an outstanding fixture at Benllech A , the 1992 title winners romped home with an easy 11–1 victory . |
| 22 | The sequences cloned from the marsupials are the only Y-located sequences detected either with the human SRY probe or with the marsupial sequences themselves . |
| 23 | And during the next thirty years composers associated with the Académie set his poems , including a translation of the Psalms , to music in which , as Philip Sidney put it , ‘ every semibreif or mynom had its syllables matched accordingly with a long foote and a short foote ’ , not monodic but in harmony with each syllable sung simultaneously in all parts . |
| 24 | As the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) advised everyone in the Financial Times last week , ’ There is nothing to prevent a group of countries pressing on with a separate Treaty The fact is that we can not , even if we wished , stop the others going ahead . ’ |
| 25 | With that emphasis , Labour could hope to appeal strongly to a wide spectrum of the middle classes , from parents who are desperately worried about their children 's schooling to commuters fed up with the run-down public transport services and clogged roads . |
| 26 | This crisis is compounded by the lack of recognition for linguistic and educational qualifications acquired outside Britain , the lack of a nationally accepted status for locally-used languages within the normal school curriculum , the lack of a place for community languages within a broad consensus of timetable structure across different local education authorities and schools , the lack of syllabuses negotiated properly with the relevant language communities and learners , the failure to develop suitable teaching materials appropriate methods , and so on . |
| 27 | In 1974 the Iraqis came up with a detailed law for the autonomous area that was far more restrictive than the 1970 agreement and in no way reflected its accommodating spirit . |
| 28 | But these ratios vary enormously with the different breeds of pedigree cats . |
| 29 | Seton halted further profitless talk and sent the emissaries hurrying back with a single cannon-shot above their heads . |
| 30 | Have tensions pummelled away with a relaxing body massage ( 7 ) . |