Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [adv] [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The perception of shape and pattern in apparently disorderly ( but dynamic and mobile ) things is usually mentioned with reference to visual perception , and it is commented on in the sciences and the arts alike : it is prominent , for example , in the notebooks of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins ( J. Milroy , 1977 ) , in his careful descriptions of cloud formations , waterfalls and other dynamic phenomena , and much of the poet 's imagery depends on a kind of ‘ observer 's paradox ’ ( rather different from the familiar Labov version ) , through which a dynamic phenomenon can nonetheless appear to have stable shapes and patterns within it and , conversely , a static phenomenon may appear to contain mobility . |
2 | In printed tables , even the comma used to subdivide large numbers into groups of three digits is often replaced with advantage by a small gap . |
3 | H pylori is classically associated with inflammation of the antrum but not exclusively so . |
4 | In Amazonia , the density and species-richness of non-flying mammals is positively correlated with soil fertility and undergrowth density . |
5 | Neither of the measures is significantly correlated with accident estimates , r(58)=0.16 with length of film and r(58)=0.17 with number of vehicles visible . |
6 | Failure to stick to the safety rules is simply playing with fire . |
7 | His Laws is still read with pleasure when much that has been written in intervening centuries on the subjects which he treated appears arid , unintelligible , pompous or irrelevant . |
8 | The explanation , that there is an unwritten curriculum which responds to new demands as they occur ( eg the computer revolution of the early 1980s ) and that the differences between schools mask even greater similarities is invariably received with scepticism . |
9 | Pulling from pain or nerves is closely associated with tenseness — readers should refer to one of my previous articles on problems for helpful suggestions . |