Example sentences of "[vb pp] with a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the joy should be mixed with a tinge of sadness . |
| 2 | The sensual appraisal was mixed with a hint of amusement which could have been in response to her apparent coyness , or perhaps her short-skirted dress with its modest round neckline was the cause , its clash of riotous colours outrageous , orange running into scarlet into crimson with small touches of hot pink . |
| 3 | Each of his friends around the table , he realizes , is surrounded with a kind of aura . |
| 4 | Hence the social positions of the university 's new class that Bourdieu describes in Homo Academicus are ‘ ill defined ’ and have their ‘ future surrounded with an aura of indeterminacy and vagueness ’ which ‘ allows students to perpetuate as long as possible … an indeterminacy of social identity ’ . |
| 5 | To ask how a piece of machinery worked was not to deny that each part had been designed with a function in mind . |
| 6 | Simple , but both beautiful and functional : this small garden was designed with a family in mind . |
| 7 | There was rain in the air outside ; inside , the air was suffused with a mixture of cigar fumes and evaporating sweat — the fumes from the audience , the sweat from the boxers whose endeavours were the principal attraction of the evening . |
| 8 | Suffused with a sense of history , precise yet pragmatic in mood , the book 's readability gains from its author 's gentle sense of irony , and exemplifies an Edwardian affinity between literature and ‘ social science ’ that has since been lost . |
| 9 | Still suffused with a sense of equality to the challenge that confronted him , he slipped deftly into the image he believed the other man would have of him . |
| 10 | She looked at the man sitting opposite her , and was suffused with a sense of loss . |
| 11 | Sport is high-performance stuff varied with a bit of club golf played by famous people or a marathon which involves both top athletes and the general public . |
| 12 | Further studies with a defined glucose polymer where electrolyte composition is constant but osmolality and substrate concentration is varied with a range of monomer and polymer concentrations may lead to be a better understanding of these phenomena . |
| 13 | The chicks are placed on a surface scattered with a mix of food grains and pebbles of about the same size and colour of the food . |
| 14 | Garden trowel The curved blade allows seedlings to be lifted with a block of soil around their roots . |
| 15 | The policeman on crossing duty had taken the 30 runners ' numbers : ‘ We are checking numbers with race officials who were also near the crossing and the runners involved will be interviewed with a view to prosecution , ’ Sergeant Lawton said . |
| 16 | He ate vast quantities of aïoli : his firm , plump chin gleamed with it , like a child 's , approached with a buttercup in search of an affinity for butter . |
| 17 | Under this new dispensation things foreign and far removed from our own polluted urban world acquire all exotic piquancy , an exciting glamour , which causes them to be approached with a mixture of reverence and hope . |
| 18 | Police said : ‘ He has been reported with a view to prosecution . ’ |
| 19 | It was just the thought of coping with this quantity alone that had me momentarily rattled , ’ she admitted with truth , then added with a hint of defiance , ‘ But if Stella can do it , I can do it . ’ |
| 20 | Ronni turned round from gazing at the figure on the jetty as her brother , manning the outboard motor behind her , responded with a snort of disapproval . |
| 21 | The government responded with a mixture of repression and concessions . |
| 22 | It was a tea shop , with one half that sold honey and homemade scones and the other with tables where the walls were decorated with a mixture of horse brasses and psychedelic posters . |
| 23 | It only lasts seconds and then they are overwhelmed with a Wave of Remorse . ’ |
| 24 | I was just overwhelmed with a sense of uncleanness . |
| 25 | He felt for the first time in his life what it must be like to be one of them and was overwhelmed with a feeling of sadness and futility . |
| 26 | Much learning is experiential but project work is supplemented with a programme of research seminars . |
| 27 | If anyone is educated with a goal in mind , to be a doctor , a lawyer or a computer programmer , then what this person is experiencing , whatever he , or his teachers , may think , is not education , but something else . ’ |
| 28 | In part , this is a result of the relatively early stages of RMI , but it is an aspect that must be addressed and addressed with a sense of priority . |
| 29 | Messages should be sent separately , direct to the central office group/sector/person addressed with a copy to Head of Area Staff . |
| 30 | The national policy consensus excluded the trade unions ; the alliance of government agencies and certain companies was more activist than in Britain ; planning goals were pursued with a battery of penalty and incentive powers . |