Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] with a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maiolica made in Renaissance Italy was also tin-glazed and painted with such vibrant colours that the ceramics seem to glow with a Mediterranean light . |
| 2 | I like to work with a whole range of pencil grades as each one produces a different colour and density , and I believe , creates a more complete drawing . |
| 3 | I like to work with a whole range of pencil grades as each one produces a different colour and density , and I believe , creates a more complete drawing . |
| 4 | In fact you wo n't get any sexually mature erm er woman to have er any relationship with men , unofficial or otherwise if you 're not initiated because they 'll just say you 're a boy and , and er and er an adult woman would feel it was demeaning you know to sleep with a mere boy , she 'd insist you 've got to be a man and to be a man you normally got to be initiated and that normally means being circumcised . |
| 5 | If you decide to dispense with a thorough dig through the whole plot and merely take out planting holes , at least try to follow the above principle : dig two spits deep , and reverse them with the more fertile top spit going down to root level . |
| 6 | In answer to the question " where is the White House ? " , we tend to respond with a step-by-step description of the journey to be taken . |
| 7 | Much easier for us to deal with a conniving , self-serving bastard like Assad than try to cope with a religious fanatic . |
| 8 | The third aspect of Part II is that section 10 now makes it an offence for a trader to supply consumer goods which fail to comply with a general safety requirement . |
| 9 | Several operations have been cancelled at the John Radcliffe Hospital today … and more may be stopped tomorrow as staff struggle to cope with a sudden influx of emergency patients … officials say there is no single cause for the sudden rise in admissions … |
| 10 | Now is a good time to plant , so plants can become established before they have to cope with a dense canopy of leaves and dry soil in the summer . |
| 11 | The companies also have to cope with a growing demand for water . |
| 12 | Teachers , who have to cope with a large group of children , are likely to regard aggressive or disruptive youngsters as problems and overlook those who are quiet and withdrawn because , in their terms , they are ‘ well behaved ’ . |
| 13 | As we have seen already when we have to cope with a large number of losses in a short time , it becomes much harder to deal with the grief that we feel . |
| 14 | After marinading , add 2–3 x 15ml/tbsp blackcurrant vinegar to the meat during cooking and sweeten to taste with a little blackcurrant jam . |
| 15 | Many of these animals not only have to contend with a changing landscape due to human development ( ! ) but also human greed . |
| 16 | Do not feel that you have to persist with a particular type of pressed flower work if you are not happy with it . |
| 17 | You have to play with a special membrane , made of v. thin bamboo , over one of the holes . |
| 18 | In addition to Acts of Parliament both Houses have to deal with a great deal of what is known as ‘ subordinate ’ or ‘ delegated ’ legislation . |
| 19 | HM Inspectors of Factories or Agriculture visit many types of workplace , and have to deal with a wide range of technical and legislative problems . |
| 20 | In short , we still have to deal with a harmonic problem — the satisfactory effect of note-combinations both in isolation and in horizontal movement . |
| 21 | The confusion yields when we realize that we have to do with a limited area , however large , and that the ‘ unionists ’ , if I may use this term , made the mistake of extrapolating the ambiguity and interchangeability within this limited area to the whole scope of Mozart 's staccato notation . |
| 22 | But when one is dealing with associative use , we have to do with a binary distinction ; the adjective is introduced solely to indicate that its property , even though applicable to some other entity , is associated with the entity of its noun phrase , and here there are only two possible states — either the property is associated , in the view of the speaker , or it is not ( and of course by a slightly curious consequence of the communicational process , the state must always be the positive one , since if the property were not felt to be associated with that entity and needed for identification , then the adjective which designates that property would simply not appear ) . |
| 23 | Despite the concern for promoting reflectiveness among teachers , their in-service opportunities have to compete with a week-by-week preoccupation with in-school organization — modifying the management plan , feeding information back into the cycle of formative teaching and testing and balancing the books in order to cover one more curriculum or non-curriculum speciality . |
| 24 | We learn to pray with a believing heart , with an emphasis on trust rather than on understanding . |