Example sentences of "and with [pron] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Or to take a comparison from fishing , she was bait : soft , swirling gracefully , juicy , to be gobbled in a mouthful , sucked in and with her the impaling point of the hard property deal also known as marriage .
2 The conditions of the farm worker , and with them the everyday life of the village community , could vary considerably across the country according to the distribution of landholding , the nature of agricultural production and the pattern of settlement .
3 It can hardly be pure coincidence that within three years of Kinsey 's appearance the limits of permissible sexual explicitness in the arts and entertainment had radically changed and with them the public image of the ideal woman as projected in , above all , films .
4 Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 .
5 Wars became ever more expensive , and with them the national debt rose to heights that to contemporaries seemed awesome ( see Table 9.2 ) .
6 Some people worry that this argument , along with cheating by Iraq , North Korea and others , could fatally undermine the NPT , and with it the global effort to halt the spread of nuclear weapons .
7 And with it the unbelievable fact that she had survived .
8 In Franco they possessed a leader who , notwithstanding German and Italian annoyance at his lack of dynamism and broad vision , was a first-rate field commander , devoted to the gradual but irreversible conquest of territory and with it the total subjection of the Spanish population .
9 The definition also removes the present reference to expectation and with it the possible argument that goods which are generally of low quality generate low expectations .
10 Britain still has the highest debt to income ratio in Europe and the appetite for credit may not be blunted until the review date comes and with it the monetary day of doom .
11 Ludger Beerbaum won the final showjumping World Cup qualifier , and with it the European League , in a two-horse jump-off on Saturday .
12 In the first flush of enthusiasm for the ‘ molecules of memory ’ many experimenters failed to take the precautions necessary to control for such biochemical and behavioural ambiguities , and as a result their research — and with it the entire field — became discredited .
13 Rosen is not alone in fearing the return of the work sheet , the fixed course of study , and with it the empty library , and the elimination of support for those splendid creatures , teachers with a mission to find the book that suits the child .
14 Autumn was reclaiming summer and with it the sun-gilded image of Samantha , last and most innocent of all the Abberleys .
15 Critical reflection is there ; so too is the dynamic dialogue with the students and with it the continuing development in the teacher 's own thinking .
16 Others who take the view that the outcome was inevitable , and with it the continuing conflict between capital and labour , will find comfort in the fact that the conflict was , after a time , institutionalised .
17 The banking system — and with it the whole world market economy — was subjected to new risks of insolvency if debtors defaulted or delayed repayment .
18 When grammar teaching fell into decline much of value was lost : a certain analytic competence , and with it the valuable ability to talk and write explicitly about linguistic patterns , relations and organisation .
19 The economy of the Temple , and with it the Jewish cult , depended on the goodwill of the suzerain .
20 He was sitting behind the tea tray , with its vast load of silver , reading Horse and Hound — Twomey came in to take the tea tray away , and with it the smaller table which held the dish of scones , the plate of sandwiches ( Gentleman 's Relish ) , the fruit cake and the plain sponge .
21 The original metre is lost , of course , and with it the lovely lilting pauses at mid-line in the hexameter , and the " rest " at the end of the trimeter ; but still the English quatrain scheme answers generally ( there is one exception ) to the patterning of the Horatian strophe into distich and answering distich .
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