Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She repainted the figures in the foreground , each button and strand of hair etched with photographic precision . |
| 2 | A mighty war host was assembled to protect the Elf homeland and not a moment too soon , for the armies of Chaos returned with redoubled strength . |
| 3 | Cell divisions of the mammalian egg are unlike those of lower animals where the planes of division appear with military precision . |
| 4 | Sizzling shades of terracotta teamed with cool blue make a simple but eye-catching statement on crisp white walls . |
| 5 | In Chapter 4 the discrepancy between responses to the question ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ and the assessment of work satisfaction led to an explanation of these responses as ( in part ) expressive of norms to do with feminine domesticity and as indicative of two alternative approaches to housework : the search for satisfaction and the recognition of dissatisfaction . |
| 6 | For Youth Allyah , Zionism came before all , an article of faith expressed with terrifying force by David Ben-Gurion , Jewish leader in Palestine when the flow of refugee children was at its height . |
| 7 | Faith is perhaps the operative word for the collector of modern books , the type of faith displayed with such success by booksellers such as Bertram Rota who was recently called by another specialist in this field the ‘ master-mason of the modern first edition ’ . |
| 8 | They quote an Under Secretary commenting upon informal communications networks : ‘ Some of these people I 've known for twenty-five years and we can of course communicate with each other almost in code . ’ |
| 9 | The four-day bash will end with a series of activities coinciding with National Music Day . |
| 10 | For sheer brilliance one need look no further than the early Prokofiev Toccata , its cascades of notes played with furious energy and incisive clarity , or the Poulenc Presto , taken at a breathtaking speed and displaying the most astonishing Fingerfertigkeit . |
| 11 | If , despite the urgency and frequency of defecation associated with ulcerative colitis , older patients affirm before operation that they are continent , we believe that they are likely to remain continent after restorative proctocolectomy provided that care is taken not to weaken the sphincter in the course of the operation and that a capacious and compliant rectal substitute is provided . |
| 12 | Massive volatility of income combined with total security of principle is , in the long term , more traumatic than the reverse . |
| 13 | He looked around him , aware of the traffic speeding up and down , of the people who walked past him on the pavement , of people coming out of McDonalds laden with fast food . |
| 14 | The use of weights coupled with longer exercise periods is very demanding and is only intended for serious athletes . |
| 15 | Work is at around 2.5mph and the system saves about two-thirds of chemical compared with overall application . |
| 16 | There have been complaints that central departments are inefficient because they are overburdened ; the Fulton Committee on the Civil Service urged the ‘ hiving-off ’ of units dealing with routine administration which were little concerned with major policy issues . |
| 17 | Anyone wanting to make a successful career as a professional musician must have an eternal sense of optimism tinged with gilt-edged charm and a business sense which would put Richard Branson in the shade . |
| 18 | The first is that the risk of insolvency diminishes with increased size . |
| 19 | Once the initial skills have been mastered , progression relies upon plenty of practice interspersed with further instruction and coaching . |
| 20 | Tumour extracts also contained higher concentrations of immunoreactivity compared with normal tissue , in assays using antibodies L289 and 109–21 . |
| 21 | Thirty pairs of eyes stared with unwavering concentration as I dipped my hand into the all-too-familiar breakfast of slightly sour rice and salted fish . |
| 22 | A different approach to data collection may be found in Kallen 's ( 1986 ) study of the co-occurrence of auxiliary do with main verb BE in Irish English : |
| 23 | Against this roseate background , Peter and Sally 's wonderfully eclectic mix of furnishings hums with vibrant life . |
| 24 | A nutritional breakdown of each recipe is provided so that people can check how their choice of dish matches with current government advice on healthy eating . |
| 25 | Vanilla silk dupion mini dress with shield of beading worn with long chiffon skirt by Louise Verity ( Vanilla dress £530 ) , skirt £380 ) , full length veil by Louise Verity ( £65 ) , earrings by Van Peterson ( £110 ) |
| 26 | Fetal trisomy with subsequent selective chromosome loss has already been demonstrated to have significant effects on fetal well-being , and may be the initiating step in the development of disorders associated with uniparental disomy . |
| 27 | There was a posy of pale spring flowers wrapped in damp newspaper to keep them fresh , a bag of potatoes tied with bristly twine , six eggs in a carton , carrots unearthed from the sandheap in which they had lain stored against invasion of the wire-worm , and a selection of dessert apples , no mere windfalls but blemish-free bests , each polished to a rosy sheen by Loopy Lil . |
| 28 | ( Serve on top of small helpings of potatoes mashed with low-fat spread and low-fat yoghurt . ) |
| 29 | Since addition errors occurred least frequently for both open and closed classes of lexical items , the major type of error occurring with closed class lexical items was loss . |
| 30 | This approach is influenced by a more developed analysis of bureaucracy associated with public choice theory . |