Example sentences of "with [adj] [noun sg] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event that no single party enjoys an overall majority in the Commons then the issue of sending for the Prime Minister and refusing a dissolution become matters so charged with political manoeuvring that the Crown would be drawn into politics in a public way that would be bound to invite a keener scrutiny as to what should be her proper role within the British constitution . |
| 2 | Regrettable because it compounds a belief that there is a group of learners with lower status that the rest because they have been labelled as having ‘ special needs ’ . |
| 3 | I predict with complete confidence that the House of Lords will never be abolished for two reasons . |
| 4 | With little sign that the recession is lifting people are having to cut their cloth accordingly . |
| 5 | Your articles on women and workers make fascinating reading but provide us with little hope that a movement for change is likely to come from these quarters . |
| 6 | And it was with this development that the company expanded internationally ; it prompted Harlequin , a Canadian based publishing house to approach Mills and Boon for the North American rights to some of their titles . |
| 7 | I enjoyed Bagnall 's article in the January issue and agree with this feeling that the familiarity , the friendliness of science , is fast disappearing . |
| 8 | She brought him back his drink , and then noticed with some relief that the crowd seemed to be thinning , and there was only an hour of work left . |
| 9 | I read with some concern that a housing development planned for the Valley is to disgorge its traffic on to the Road near the Hill Lane Lane crossroads . |
| 10 | It dawned upon Ruth with some surprise that the outing was to be a great treat for Miss Beard , and that in spite of all her high-faluting talk , not many of those came her way . |
| 11 | There seems at this point to be disagreement among the regulationists , with some hypothesizing that the decentralization within Britain was the beginning of a new phase of ( neo-Fordist ) accumulation ( Aglietta , 1979 ; Dunford , Geddes and Perrons , 1981 ) , while others ( Martin , 1988 ; Marshall , 1987 ) clearly see it as an attempt to use geographical restructuring to prolong the life of Fordism . |
| 12 | She walked along some residential streets , and once observed with some fascination that a coal delivery had been deposited outside one house , and that the coal was brown ! |
| 13 | It is easy to see why the Author was the winner of an award for ‘ U.K. Best Shareware Author ’ with programs that are so easy to use with on-line help that a manual is not needed . |
| 14 | The expedition was not to start until the beginning of May , five days away , and she knew with absolute certainty that the word of it was to come to them from her . |
| 15 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 16 | The interest he attracted was greatly increased when , with the consent of the priest-in-charge , Richard preached at Mass with such charism that the congregation were moved to tears . |
| 17 | Kitto embraced this cause with such enthusiasm that the Pictorial |
| 18 | At the same time , some special factor is necessary to explain his extraordinary self-confidence and strength of purposes evinced even in the face of death — the death that he himself engineered and then suffered with such calm that the image of " the dying Socrates " became a new ideal . |
| 19 | He painted with such intensity that the painting fell on his head as he leant forward to see me better . |
| 20 | Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound and image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in-the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |
| 21 | Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in. the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |
| 22 | Almost invariably , when that happens , its blue tail drops off and lies wriggling on the rock with such vigour that the aggressor 's attention is diverted to it , often for sufficiently long for the skink itself to slip free and escape . |
| 23 | He ordered two divisions to counter-attack in the centre , an action that was executed with such vigour that the German 20th Corps was brought to a halt for 48 hours . |
| 24 | He pulled on his shirt with such violence that a button sprang off and skittered across the floor . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she said , waving her feather duster at him with such violence that the end tickled his nose . |
| 26 | Miranda cut her toast with such force that a corner of it flew on to the floor . |
| 27 | The ladle hit the stew with such force that the liquid splashed onto the white tablecloth , and , almost stuttering now , Alice cried , ‘ What a thing to say ! |
| 28 | The young woman lay across the floor of her spotless kitchen , her skull smashed with such force that the brain was exposed . |
| 29 | ‘ So the dagger , or whatever , was stuck in with such force that the guard caused these bruises . |
| 30 | Then he strode from the room , passing her chair without even glancing at her , and slamming the door with such force that the chandelier rattled above the table . |