Example sentences of "of [noun sg] and [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 | Milan Kundera opens The Book of Laughter and Forgetting with a parable about the treatment of history under communism . |
| 6 | The glued-on neck is made from three pieces of maple and capped with a fingerboard of tight-grained ebony . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Lili was taken by a fit of mirth and lay with a cushion pressed to her nose . |
| 12 | It was trimmed with a border of lace and printed with a pattern of flowers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |