Example sentences of "to a [adj] [noun] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To help pay the rent , we let a back room to a nervous queer with pale , bulging eyes , who was a friend of a friend . |
| 2 | A short path led along cracked paving to a front door with coloured glass set into its wood . |
| 3 | He was talking to a young girl with straight , fair hair and they were both very serious . |
| 4 | When he turned , he saw that he was backed up to a young man with crinkly hair and a baggy silk suit , sleeves turned back to mid-forearm . |
| 5 | But it is not a life calculated to appeal to a young man with sophisticated Metropolitan tastes and a career in the media . |
| 6 | A MERSEYSIDE nurse was appearing before magistrates today charged with attempting to administer noxious substances to a young patient with intent to endanger life . |
| 7 | The standards today give preference to a rich red with white lineback , tail and underline , though yellow dun , plum and red-eared white ( with or without red , dun or plum on their sides ) are acceptable as long as they have the white finching . |
| 8 | R. yakushimanum is a compact evergreen with pink flowers and the leaves open as silver-green , changing to a deep green with brown felting . |
| 9 | Unavailability of the required information may lead to a deficient design with unacceptable economic , ecological , social , political or cultural consequences . |
| 10 | Until the move in the 1860s to a new building with adequate space , it was dispersed on shelves scattered all over the old one , with the books crowded three rows deep on the shelves so that only those in the front row were visible , and no catalogue of it existed . |
| 11 | ’ ( ‘ Outside ’ was quite a sumptuous place in its little way ; a good walk from the house , along a winding path between yew and box trees and down some artistically rounded white steps , to a trellised porch with chequered black and red tiled floor , where an escort might wait on a dark night . |
| 12 | He had been talking to a tall girl with white-blonde hair , but suddenly he turned his head slightly and looked straight at Maria , and every muscle in her body clenched in furious , shocked resistance . |
| 13 | The growth of such organisations — community groups , tenants ' associations , welfare rights groups , women 's groups , community employment groups , popular planning associations , unemployed centres , alternative technology groups , cooperatives — bear witness to a general discontent with existing social and political structures . |
| 14 | Mix to a firm dough with cold water . |
| 15 | It is some evidence , that is , that the concept of social class points to a real phenomenon with stable properties as reflected in the empirical relationships among the various indicators . |
| 16 | Populations that belong to a specific group with common ancestry are known to have a single genetic system . |
| 17 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 18 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 19 | Invitation to a tasting house with free Genever Cocktail . |
| 20 | The US Treasury Secretary , Nicholas Brady , had insisted that the increase be linked to a firmer line with threatened suspension for persistent defaulters . |
| 21 | Our fashions are off to a gentle start with soft neutral colours but do n't miss the great style of the shawl-collared coat by Nina Miklin ( Pattern 3 ) . |
| 22 | The territory was comparable to a protected State with added supervision by the League of Nations . |
| 23 | However , when he is transferred to a strange yard with different handlers , even if it is a good establishment , his natural nervous temperament will reappear , explaining why so many new owners think their horse may have been drugged when they bought it . |
| 24 | As a dynamical example , perhaps the commonest practical problem leading to a double eigenvalue with simple degeneracy is that of critical damping . |
| 25 | However he thinks that development of the operating system as an application server will be accelerated thanks to Novell 's participation , with Unix evolving to a broader market with additional features and capabilities , including links with NetWare . |
| 26 | I had traced Tunney out of the City to a big house with high broken-glass-topped walls where the rich and inebriated pay to have their vices purged . |
| 27 | I shall do my very best for him and , if anything you say is true , getting away to a different atmosphere with other boys will be the answer . |
| 28 | I peeled off my clothes and took a long shower — it would be a long time before I took a bath again , and certainly not round at Sunil 's — and treated myself to a proper shave with hot water and a razor . |
| 29 | At that stage there appeared a good chance that the election would lead to a hung parliament with Labour in charge — and that was judged the worst possible outcome for shares . |
| 30 | Would you trust him/her to a permissive relationship with contemporary television ? |