Example sentences of "with [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being .
2 A white dog with torn ears followed him into the room .
3 Welsh folklore has a richness all of its own and exploring some of the areas with strange tales takes you to unbeatable walking country amid fantastic scenery .
4 She pulled off a fluffy piece and with sticky fingers offered it to Uncle Albert .
5 Baby Jesus was real poor , so he had to grow up on a farm and that , and when he got bigger he went round with some friends telling everyone about God , and then he died .
6 Life in Parma at the beginning of the school year seemed normal apart from the Fascist propaganda in the papers , but one began to sense that the members of the Party were becoming even more arrogant and domineering than before , and that it was increasingly important for people with different ideas to keep them to themselves and never to discuss politics .
7 Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund .
8 Police say dealing with such situations presents them with a dilema … between safety and
9 A young woman with large breasts paraded them across a football field and immediately got a job of modelling double-breasted clothes .
10 Only people with soft heads stick them in the sand and wait to be kicked up the arse by little cheats and liars .
11 Heated debate over the dam project took place during the 15-day NPC session , with many delegates opposing it for environmental and financial reasons .
12 The verdict on whether Mr Lamont will remain as Chancellor remained open last night , with many Tories seeing it as an electoral mistake to raise fuel bills in the run up the next election , while others praised him for tackling the public deficit .
13 They have evolved separately and thus we discover that monkeys with prehensile tails serving them as an extra hand only come from the New World .
14 Recent developments have shown that appropriate education , training and direct experience of work and living away from home , can enable a very significant proportion of those with severe disabilities to maintain themselves in employment and independent life .
15 If more firms can overcome the internal obstacles to resemble the Japanese automobile producers , the world economy will become increasingly dominated by oligopolies with growing abilities to divorce themselves from local conditions and to create new types of enclaves within host states .
16 With those facts staring us in the face , it was monstrous and absurd to propose to sink a large outlay of money in the purchase of ground in this neighbourhood , and in the erection of new Government buildings .
17 Only an alarming collapse by four of the clubs above Quakers can save them from an instant return to the Fourth Division , with nine points separating them from the fifth bottom club .
18 Letting the water buoy up my weight I stretched my feet down to touch bottom and found the water came up to my ears ; took a deep breath , put the rest of my head under and reached around for Harry , unable to see him , unable with open eyes to see anything at all .
19 Rents for these appalling houses — eight thousand back-to-backs , rising three storeys with single rooms piled one on top of the other — took a high proportion of a working-class income .
20 Other examples of applications of high energy technology to agriculture and stock-rearing , such as deep boreholes in semi-arid areas are discussed by Cliffe and Moorsom ( 1979 ) , and Kassapu ( 1979 ) , where it becomes even more difficult for those with dwindling resources to avail themselves of soil conserving and yield enhancing new technologies .
21 Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time …
22 When , some time later , one appeared , Owen handed the youth over to him with strict instructions to keep him in the local caracol until Owen would question him .
23 The redistribution of income and wealth has been matched by a realignment of people 's political allegiances with an increasing number of those with modest resources allying themselves with the most prosperous sections of the community .
24 Appledorn said clear plastic film can also be covered with triangular grooves to make it into a mirror for use as ‘ light pipes ’ for more efficient road lighting , while other shapes create a reflector to make a road sign stand out when illuminated .
25 The Icknield Way in Hertfordshire actually consisted of at least half a dozen clearly defined and parallel lanes edged by contemporary fields , with other lanes crossing it at right angles .
26 As a group swells in size with natural increase of population and with new members joining it from outside , it eventually reaches a point where it ceases to enjoy an optimum exploitative relationship with its physical and economic resources .
27 I 've left it with two screws holding it at the moment .
28 It had a large nave with massive columns separating it from the aisles ( 92 and 93 ) .
29 conclude on the basis of recent work on tachistoscopic word recognition that , at least with single-syllable words exposed one at a time to left or right visual hemifield , artefacts due to directional scanning contribute little if anything to hemifield asymmetry .
30 But it was nice to see all these old geezers with huge noses treating him as if he was a man .
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