Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 One such arose from a technicality associated with the Copernican system .
2 The outcome was a decision to continue with the same dosage , because what is the use of physical strength without the brain to direct it ?
3 Development revenue was expected to be almost Rps10,400,000 million , including programme aid of Rps1,500,000 million and project aid of Rps8,900,000 million — representing a reduction compared with the last budget .
4 If it is indeed to be a land battle , that inevitably bloody affair will with luck be fast-moving , and people will see it as a struggle fought with a clear aim against an obdurate enemy and plainly moving towards an allied victory .
5 If there 's a rise compared with the same quarter last year , could there be a good reason , perhaps a new baby or a recently retired person spending more time at home ?
6 A GANG armed with a sub-machine gun were caught with drugs worth £5 million by undercover police .
7 If a sentence starts with an unstressed syllable , leave it out of consideration — it does n't belong in a foot .
8 Samson Agonistes exemplifies a problem which has stood at the centre of current inquiry into the negotiations a text has with an historical context .
9 They fell victims , along with others , to the belief that if a building complied with the existing building regulations and Codes of Practice it must be deemed to be safe .
10 News about this dynamic activist was sent back to the Gold Coast , and he seemed just the man they needed to organise a political organisation to associate a mass following with the upper-middle-class political elite , who were already restless within the confines of the Burns constitution .
11 Had he been in his place on Tuesday , when my right hon. Friend made the opening speech on the Loyal Address , he would have heard him say that the Government would introduce a measure to deal with the young thugs , as my hon. Friend calls them , who indulge in joyriding , a practice which hon. Members in all parts of the House deplore ; those young people will , therefore , be offending .
12 Additionally , the development of the huge ‘ pot ’ helm , which enclosed all of the head rather than just the skull , made its wearer virtually invulnerable against anything less than a blow delivered with the full weight of a sword or axe .
13 ( Note that a Whitewash is not available where the controlling interest is obtained by means of a purchase connected with a new issue of shares. ) ( 2 ) Sufficient authorised but unissued share capital and a directors ' authority to allot the new shares under CA 1985 , s80 will be required .
14 A mattress used with the wrong base may cause damage to the mattress , be uncomfortable and would invalidate the guarantee .
15 Cover Picture : Korean seminarian wearing a T-shirt decorated with the Eucharistic logo .
16 Given that Ullman 's computations can indeed interpret correspondence , shape , and motion in a wide range of paired 2-D views ( which has been tested by running his system in its programmed form on a computer provided with the relevant input ) , how is his work relevant to questions about perception in animals ?
17 The system is less satisfactory in that you can only extract meaningful information from a bar code if you have a computer equipped with a suitable decoding system and database .
18 When I press the space-bar a computer appears with the following information beneath it :
19 There is a contract made with the very person there who is present in person .
20 NO Hollywood script writer could have conjured up a story to compare with the one Michael Galwey has produced and starred in .
21 Stop-start combining , with most wheats still some way off ripening , comes as quite a change compared with the past two years .
22 Every word came out of that perfect bow of a mouth loaded with a prying kind of jealousy .
23 The move , linked to the United States announcement in October that it would withdraw all tactical nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula , followed fruitless efforts to persuade North Korea as a signatory to comply with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty under the International Atomic Energy Agency and accept international inspection of its nuclear facilities , and to halt its suspected nuclear weapons development programme including the construction of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant [ see p. 38396 ] .
24 Laura held up a forefinger burdened with an enormous cameo ring .
25 He and Miles had last faced each other across a battlefield strewn with the dead and dying .
26 Then a hunter passed with a dead seal on a sledge so , for lack of anything more obviously artistic. , Mr Allen described that ( 'Its silver-grey nose peeping … etc , etc ’ ) .
27 One is even tempted to propound a theorem to cope with the bewildering thickets of paradox obstructing every path , namely : every attempt to ameliorate nuclear doctrine in one respect produces an equal and opposite effect in some other respect .
28 The Great Detective , for all that he figures in mere detective stories , is a figure to parallel with the great poet and the great scientist because in solving the sort of genuinely baffling mystery that confronts him , in fact he goes some way to solving a yet greater mystery , the mystery of the human personality .
29 ( b ) Express terms negative implied terms An express term in a lease generally excludes the possibility of the implication of a term dealing with the same subject matter as the implied term .
30 As a reformer confronted with an ignorant and conservative society it is understandable that Olavide saw universities only as ‘ workshops for the production of an élite to serve the state and enlighten the multitude ’ .
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