Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a reader ever expects to do more about the stringing of an old keyboard instrument ( or a modern instrument designed after one ) than replacing broken strings , it is essential that he or she is familiar with this book . |
| 2 | She is married with one son . |
| 3 | She is slim with blonde hair and looks like a catwalk model . ’ |
| 4 | She is wet with elegant reserve . |
| 5 | It is consistent with any kind of human behaviour , and just because of that , it tells us nothing about human behaviour . |
| 6 | Also , as it is late with few people around , I see the dangers to others of my speeding as being less . |
| 7 | It is strong with public service workers whose relation to the generation of wealth is indirect , but it does not work with the young bank employee in Basildon with £15,000 a year and prospects . |
| 8 | It is narrow with passing places ; it winds in and out and up and down to circumvent natural obstacles , and progress is slow by main road standards . |
| 9 | ( Sanford , 1988 ) It is complete with competing predilections , schools , logics , methods , and terminologies — and indeed competing conceptions of the subject , by which I mean conceptions of just what " if " statements are properly treated together . |
| 10 | In the summertime , it is alive with hot fumes and rampant dogs and fashionable bathers crawling up Highgate Road on their way to the Heath , where they claim respective ponds and languor till the sky slowly turns to a soothing summer gold . |
| 11 | This , by the way , erm , it it is applied with this study , and that is during the thirties , particularly on the , well it it actually carried on into the forties , but but the , there was a almost a character in many plays , where one one character was , in effect , the family black sheep . |
| 12 | It is always a characteristic of theories which have many other features , and since it refers to a general kind of explanation rather than to explanations which make use of any particular set of categories , it is compatible with social theories of many types . |
| 13 | It is possible with all monitors or TV sets to turn the volume to zero . |
| 14 | If wood is to be stained as well as filled , then it is possible with some makes to thin the filler with the wood dye , so that dyeing and filling can be carried out in one operation . |
| 15 | To quote : It is the distinguishing characteristic of a healthy higher education that , even where it is concerned with practical techniques , it imparts them on a plane of generality that makes possible their application to many problems . |
| 16 | Studying literature , then , is a serious business ; it is concerned with close examination of those authors who can bring us to a deeper ( and more moral ) understanding of humanity . |
| 17 | This is support to which the family might seem peculiarly suited , since it is concerned with personal anxieties and fears , the realm of the intimate . |
| 18 | It is concerned with all types of conflict , many of which give rise to overt violence , but always in terms of the wider context within which such conflicts occur . |
| 19 | His theory connects with Mannheim 's ‘ particular ’ conception of ideology rather than his ‘ total ’ conception in that it is concerned with psychological processes . |
| 20 | It is concerned with social structures , that is with mechanisms that withstand the march of time ; it is also concerned with the development of those structures . |
| 21 | It is concerned with social representations among children of the social world relating to the school and to occupations , and with the impact of these on moral judgements . |
| 22 | It remains to show why genuine criticism is not at home in the academy ; or , more precisely , why it is irreconcilable with pedagogic practice . |
| 23 | Here it is important with all clients including elderly people to involve them as far as possible in the advocacy process , otherwise the client may end up feeling even more powerless , while some determined advocacy is undertaken on his/her behalf . |
| 24 | With × 20 I have found that near maximum its colour is very clear , and it is detectable with lower magnifications . |
| 25 | It is white with yellowy-green streaks and mottling , and can be seen in the island 's cathedral . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) The difficulty arises where there is some evidence but it is of a tenuous character , for example because of inherent weakness or vagueness or because it is inconsistent with other evidence . |
| 27 | It is also argued that it is inconsistent with human dignity that a woman should use her uterus for financial profit and treat it as an incubator for someone else 's child . ’ |
| 28 | Supposing the sentence read : ‘ It is also argued that it is inconsistent with human dignity that a man should use his muscles as a crane for transporting someone else 's goods ’ ; or ‘ that a woman should use her vocal cords for the delectation of others ’ ; or ‘ that a person should use his or her brain to work out someone else 's income tax ’ — would these substitutes carry convictions ? |
| 29 | Of course it is different with complete operas , but even then , there are elaborate boxes containing the discs and booklet ‘ jewel cases ’ complete with booklet and no outer box . |
| 30 | Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp warns that earnings per share for the third quarter to March 27 will be ‘ significantly below ’ consensus analysts ' expectations which have been in a range of $0.20 to $0.26 a share , as a direct result of severe price declines in the 3.5″ hard disk drive business : the company says it does not see a significant decline in unit demand and that demand from its key OEM customers is getting stronger and says it is comfortable with revised analyst estimates , in the $0.05 to $0.10 per share range ; ‘ To the best of our ability we will not participate ’ in the price wars , it said . |