Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] with the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was most sparing with the anger on celluloid : would rather fake it than summon it up . |
| 2 | The following spring the same duo , neither of whom had climbed since the previous autumn , was optimistically toying with the idea of opening the season with Dream of White Horses on Gogarth . |
| 3 | v. Laughton where , it will be remembered , the I.T.F. union , in dispute with Merkur Island , a flag of convenience shipowner , induced tug-boat crews to refuse , in breach of their contracts of employment , to move Merkur Island 's vessel , thereby interfering with the charter of the vessel to Leif Hoegh . |
| 4 | I had a successful 2 o'clock meeting with the organisers of a charity event to raise money for Guy 's Hospital cancer unit . |
| 5 | One of them , it was pointed out to him , was the great ex-Soviet chess player , Korchnoi , who is apparently training with the team in order to reach maximum physical fitness for his world title challenge to his arch-rival , the darling of the Soviets , Karpov . |
| 6 | Anstey 's approach to this edition was initially intended to be thematic but she has reverted to the chronological format of the first edition , thus not only dispensing with the problems of placing the themes but also giving the reader a parallel in comment on Thomas 's development both in poetry and prose . |
| 7 | Shirai 's voice here seems to have taken on a new dimension , a darker tonal colour , a new expressiveness that is constantly compelling with the emphasis on the drama . |
| 8 | To each side were gardens brilliantly blooming with the flowers of spring . |
| 9 | Once he introduces them , the linguist can not simply retreat into claiming that he is only dealing with the abstractions of descriptive linguistics . |
| 10 | Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world . |
| 11 | Although great controversy was generated , the proposed reforms were really only dealing with the margins of the Welfare State rather than with any fundamental alterations in its structure . |
| 12 | The Bullock Committee found that ‘ [ t ] he role of a board varies from company to company and is constantly changing with the requirements of business . |
| 13 | The black , wet face pressed to the glass of the vizor was constantly changing with the movement of the slime . |
| 14 | Both are only playing with the conventions of the mainstream domestic sitcom of the past 30 years , when writers have looked to the theatre ( notably the work of Neil Simon and Alan Ayckbourn ) as a model . |
| 15 | She was suddenly burning with the fire of a new task . |
| 16 | I 'd rather planned on going to bed tonight aching with the satisfaction of revenge , not laughter . ’ |
| 17 | Among the medical teams , a doctor who 's husband is already serving with the UN in Croatia . |
| 18 | It was a cold night and I had no overcoat but I was soon sweating with the effort of carrying the suitcase . |
| 19 | Its revolutionariness is , however , only incidentally political : in that it evolved outside the universities in marginal academic institutions , and in that its development during the 1960s reached a kind of peak in the years 1967 — 8 , thus coinciding with the événements of 1968 . |
| 20 | The duty to provide such public sewers as may be necessary for effectually draining their district for the purposes of the Act , and to make such provision , by means of sewage disposal works or otherwise as may be necessary for effectually dealing with the contents of their sewers. ( s.14(1) ) |
| 21 | She was horrified , physically shaking with the shock of what she had witnessed . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's only really the chap on the ground who gets to know what 's going on , gets chatting — and not just chatting with the management of the firm — chatting with the chap that runs the pretreatment plant , y'know , having a cup of tea with him and generally getting to know the individuals and the characters . |
| 23 | Her hair , Dexter noticed , was matt and streaked with grey , no longer glistening with the aid of a back light in the studio . |
| 24 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |
| 25 | However , not all breastfeeding women are protected , and the protection seems to depend , among other things , on the intensity and frequency of breastfeeding , thus decreasing with the length of the breastfeeding period . |
| 26 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 27 | Many welfare lobbyists and pressure groups are still struggling with the legacy of the Thatcher years , especially the Fowler reviews and the 1986 Social Security Act changes . |
| 28 | France and Italy have also had to cope with falling output , and Germany , still struggling with the costs of reunification , has now suffered three successive quarters of declining GDP . |
| 29 | Still fumbling with the clasp of her bag , she gasped , ‘ No , Marcus . |
| 30 | In the third century B.C. they were still cooperating with the Greeks in Egypt , but they were becoming unpopular with the natives . |