Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] it [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an age when politicians , journalists , estate agents and even advertising executives claim to be ‘ professionals ’ , it is easy to forget that the description once carried with it a certain cachet . |
| 2 | This new law was put into practice two weeks before my son 's death , and carried with it a maximum sentence of five years ' imprisonment . |
| 3 | Branson 's fierce attack on ‘ predatory pricing ’ carried with it the implied threat of another anti-trust suit against British Airways in the American courts . |
| 4 | Patience has sat upon it a long time , |
| 5 | His right eye , which he had hardly noticed until Dr McNab had looked at it a little while earlier , had begun to throb painfully , and at the same time he felt feverish and nauseated , though perhaps it was only on account of the fetid atmosphere and the stench of urine . |
| 6 | Around the gate and the two fire-engines parked by it a little knot of spectators was gathering , increasing by the minute , kept at a distance by two superbly imperturbable members of the Lancashire County force . |
| 7 | Nehushtah , Mandru 's wife , had decided upon it the previous night . |
| 8 | They had slept beside it the previous night , and rose at five to make sure of reaching the top by sunrise . |
| 9 | Verdun seized American imaginations as did the Battle of Britain in 1940 ; compared to it the titanic clash on the Somme was to arouse little interest . |
| 10 | When early Christians adopted the pagan altar they did so to represent the table of the Last Supper and placed upon it a white cloth symbolic of the Shroud . |
| 11 | What is more , the cultivation of the idea of emperorship brought with it a renewed interest in the rich sources of the Roman law . |
| 12 | In fact , that situation is even more confusing than it may seem from this account because a third cultural trauma , this time representing the change from cultivation ( of plants ) to herding and pastoralism also occurred and brought with it a great intensification , not of weaning as happened with cultivation , nor of the phallic mutilations which accompanied hunting , but of toilet-training . |
| 13 | The shift of focus from the individual text to literature in general brought with it a new awareness of the different nature of different types of discourse about literature , and of the different ways of treating literature implied by them . |
| 14 | The method of composition used by the painters brought with it a new element of ease and fluidity . |
| 15 | Roy Porter maintains , however , that in the eighteenth century the growth of fashion brought with it a new standard of beauty which emphasized the artificial , so that many Georgians feared a civilization of facades . |
| 16 | In a way the actual liquidation brought with it a curious sense of relief . |
| 17 | For the purposes of this chapter , this question of chronology makes only one difference , and that is in assessing how long the two separate procedural regimes lasted ; how long therefore the use of a trust brought with it a distinct advantage compared with the use of a modal legacy . |
| 18 | Increased life expectancy has brought with it a major burden ( the word is here used advisedly ) and responsibility in the care of those in an advanced state of mental and physical decline . |
| 19 | A chink of light from behind the thick curtain told him that it was morning , and the prospect brought with it a deep sense of foreboding . |
| 20 | The growth of the comprehensives brought with it a significant expansion in the curriculum content of secondary schooling , which should have been helpful to girls , except that in many schools expansion meant typing or shorthand or child-care for girls , and quite different subjects for boys . |
| 21 | England 's involvement in European warfare after 1689 brought with it a massive expansion of the work of government , as more and more men had to be employed by the executive to meet the demands of war — in the Treasury office , and its dependent bodies the Customs , Excise , Mint and Tax Office , in the Army and Navy , and in the diplomatic service . |
| 22 | The LRT method of shaking off destructive beliefs about ourselves brought with it an astonishing sense of joy . |
| 23 | Legislation in 1988 brought with it the central government decision to abolish the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) by 1990 , despite the opposition of 93 per cent of parents in Inner London . |
| 24 | ‘ Then clearly I have n't gone about it the right way . ’ |
| 25 | All of them were occupied , but , without even a word from Guido , the proprietor snapped his fingers , and even as they were being led towards it an extra table was being laid . |
| 26 | It was not : for , as we have seen , organised labour very soon and consciously became the necessary reciprocal to employing capital and so constituted with it the developed system which had yet to be called Capitalism . |
| 27 | ‘ As to that , madam , I shall go further , ’ he said gallantly , whereupon he unfastened his leather pouch and carefully removed from it the Great Seal of England . |
| 28 | In other words , by insisting on the dominance of the ruling class in the last instance , Poulantzas 's approach retained within it the central tenet of all reductionist instrumental accounts : namely , the state must be functioning to defend and protect the interests of the dominant class all of the time . |