Example sentences of "of [noun] [coord] [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Age Concern would welcome an attempt to introduce a single unified system and favours an element of formality and monitoring with a local and ‘ user-friendly ’ face . |
| 2 | The one-day course , held at Brunel Technical College and attended by 25 people , began with lecture demonstrations explaining the scientific principles of cooking and ended with a gourmet meal in the company of tutors and guests , which provided an opportunity to discuss science in general . |
| 3 | Despite offers of another bottle , we declared a truce and comforted ourselves by sharing a strawberry and raspberry gratinée , the fresh fruit beached in a hot lake of custard and centred with a melting raspberry sorbet : definitely my desert island dish . |
| 4 | Sixty odd years separate this work from The Birth of Tragedy and compared with a similar span of years since Winckelmann 's revolutionary study of Greet art , the later period , viewed as a period of German Hellenism , is anti-climatic . |
| 5 | And with copious amounts of tone modification and sheer brute power on tap , via the active contouring filters ( 18dB boost at 100Hz and 10Hz ) then the graphic equaliser ( 15dB of boost or cut with a ten-band slider ranging from 30Hz right up to 8kHz ) , the Hartkes are never likely to be found wanting . |
| 6 | The pistol has a range of 10″ and hits with a strength of 4 and the commander has a BS of 3 ( this is included in with the profile for the Steam Tank itself ) . |
| 7 | At her farewell , GM gave a vote of thanks and presented with a nest of mahogany tables on behalf of the company . |
| 8 | Milan Kundera opens The Book of Laughter and Forgetting with a parable about the treatment of history under communism . |
| 9 | The glued-on neck is made from three pieces of maple and capped with a fingerboard of tight-grained ebony . |
| 10 | For many of these theories computational systems have been developed using very small lexicons that have been sanitised of ambiguity and dealing with a conveniently simple set of grammatical constructions . |
| 11 | Madeleine came up to see me last Monday for a couple of days and arrived with a sore throat too , so she had a well deserved rest after the excesses of their very social Christmas and life and also encouraged me , the weather and the throats keeping us indoors , to do some MUCH needed turning out . |
| 12 | During his journey he cycled the bridge over the River Kwai , pedalled the peaks of Nepal and collided with a kangaroo in Australia . |
| 13 | Here is Thomas 's final piece , which is presented in type because the original was written on a large piece of paper and integrated with a beautiful line drawing of the piece of wood . |
| 14 | The first three of the boots I tested are all fabric ( Cordura ) , reinforced with varying amounts of suede and fitted with a Gore-Tex bootie . |
| 15 | Why , for that matter , do they prepare these deeds in one continuous sentence , interspersed with a myriad of semicolons and finalised with a colon ? |
| 16 | She came in holding a large vase of flowers and said with a smile : |
| 17 | I was Secretary of the miner 's support group that was set up in Blaenau during the year long miner 's s strike where we collected a lot of food and twinned with a town down in South Wales and made a lot of new friends . |
| 18 | Lili was taken by a fit of mirth and lay with a cushion pressed to her nose . |
| 19 | It was trimmed with a border of lace and printed with a pattern of flowers . |
| 20 | Apply your first coat of varnish or seal with a lint-free rag , working it well into the timber |
| 21 | A vertical puddle , I stood in the lobby , wiped the steam from my glasses with a corner of shirt-tail and realized with a touch of horror , as I hooked my glasses back around my ears , that this was much too grand a place for me . |
| 22 | The heads of a bishop 's crozier and staff were often carved from ivory ( Plate G ) , as were the liturgical combs used by officiants at the altar on high occasions , and the episcopal ring would be made of gold and set with a precious stone . |