Example sentences of "with a [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an instant the coldness of her fury evaporated and her heart was flooded with a tide of raw emotions — excitement , confusion and a desperate yearning that tore at her insides and left her breathless , as though she had been knocked to the ground and run over by a steam train . |
| 2 | Those with a preference for other forms of fiscal expenditure will join their respective local ‘ club ’ elsewhere . |
| 3 | Each child had his or her own particular repertoire with a preference for some actions over others , but with time they changed their repertoire . |
| 4 | The A.87 now crosses the loch on a long causeway with a warning of high winds , but even in calm weather the former road continuing up the valley to round the head of the loch , at the cost of two extra miles , is to be preferred . |
| 5 | At the conclusion of the episode , Rennie contented himself with a warning about defective speedometers . |
| 6 | He first became director of education , Tonga ( 1916–19 ) , and thereafter held professorships in Cape Town ( 1921–5 ) , Sydney ( 1926–31 ) , Chicago ( 1931–7 ) with Yenching University in China ( 1935 ) , and Oxford ( 1937–46 ) with a fellowship of All Souls College and a wartime secondment to Sao Paulo . |
| 7 | It will be held in conjunction with a fellowship of All Souls College . |
| 8 | At opposite extremes are the ‘ seamless web of learning ’ party who would appear to argue that integration is so noble in itself that it should be undertaken whether teachers can handle it or not , and the committed and dogmatic subject specialist with a bookful of behavioural objectives and forty pages of sequenced syllabus to back them up . |
| 9 | No longer a girl with a headful of hazy dreams , she was a woman now . |
| 10 | If this did not occur , and without ‘ mind ’ playing its special role , our field of awareness would be flooded with a sea of indiscernible sensations , preventing us from following a sequence of events or performing any activity without having a multitude of distractions to contend with . |
| 11 | The desk was less neat than the others with a stack of yellowing newspapers on one corner and two piles of books about forensic science on the other . |
| 12 | Home and school had worn her success like a prize rosette , and she trotted off to university with a stack of leather-bound prizes and dire warnings about hard work , early nights and regular meals . |
| 13 | This is just as well , otherwise the practice of language teaching would have no claim to any professional status , for such a claim is not consistent with a reliance on ready-made solutions . |
| 14 | instead , every writer is to be issued with a sampler in coloured wools to hang over the fireplace . |
| 15 | As always seems to happen , this particular area was overcast with a cloudbase of 2300 feet . |
| 16 | ‘ No , nobody knows 'em from Adam , ’ he nodded jovially at the gardener who flashed back with a wall of white teeth . |
| 17 | The sharp style of leather and suede is an essential this season ; stand by with a wardrobe of contemporary classics including shirts , jeans and western-style jackets in black , rich brown and tan . |
| 18 | This has always seemed to make sense , despite the Scots ' own tendency to be caught with a wardrobe of empty coat-hangers and crumpled piles , and one 's fear on behalf of England is that they are running out of time in which to find a dinner jacket . |
| 19 | During 1934 , Hitler 's desire to become the sole dictator of Germany took a step further when he was able to dissolve all Trade Unions , and followed that with a purge of unwanted members of the Nazi party . |
| 20 | Although it does not survive death , it is closely associated in life with a category of immortal spirits , the lai , which act as spirit familiars to mediums . |
| 21 | Although the reporting process of the NRPO was highly formalised , its day-to-day activity was a chaotic mixture of formal and informal committees and networks , with a core of full-time planners and a larger number of people seconded part-time from within the company , and numerous consultants from outside . |
| 22 | Staff groups may be short-term or long-term , or a mixture of both , with a core of long-term members working with short-term participants who join for an agreed number of sessions in turn — this particular structure affords a good opportunity for a school to build up a core of its own consultant teachers . |
| 23 | When you ask the whole group questions , give careful thought in advance to how you are going to deal with a flurry of waving hands and shouted answers . |
| 24 | It will be noted that failure to comply with a direction regarding structural alterations to a seamen 's canteen may result in a refusal to renew the licence It the next application , and not to a fine as under s.36 . |
| 25 | The Aleutian trench is thus where it hits the North American Plate ; the trenches of Kurlin , Japan , Bonin , Mariana ( the deepest in the world , with a hole of 36,201 feet ) , Yap , Palau and Manus indicate its collision with the Eurasian Plate ; the Mussau , Solomon , Vitiaz , Torres and New Hebrides trenches show where the Pacific Plate overrides the subducted Indo-Australian Plate ; and the Tonga , Kermadec , Hikurangi , Hjort , Iselin and Balleny trenches demonstrate the effect of bumping into the same Indo — Australian Plate and passing beneath it . |
| 26 | Write a preliminary memorandum , embodying your proposals for a sampling scheme with a consideration of possible frames and indicating any difficulties of execution or interpretation that occur to you . |
| 27 | The head , if that 's what it is , is crowned with a tuft of rubbery antennae serving various functions . |
| 28 | Spoon over a little more jelly , then cover with a layer of chopped strawberries . |
| 29 | Here and there , limp bodies float in the shallows and great expanses of the beach are covered with a layer of brown grains that are not sand but eggs . |
| 30 | The War Wagon is an extremely heavy version of a chariot , an armoured battle tower with a crew of six warriors , pulled by two sturdy warhorses . |