Example sentences of "with a [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recalled with a shudder his futile attempts to pull together the shreds of his old life as if nothing had happened , his tangled emotions , the trouble at school . |
| 2 | People who wish to consume a service know what resources it uses because they are faced with a price which just covers the additional resources that are needed to provide it . |
| 3 | In a fabliau called La Saineresse , " The female blood-letter " , for instance , the deceptive actions performed by the deceiving character are actions entirely of speech , as a wife who has had sexual intercourse with a man her dull-witted husband believes to be a female blood-letter describes her act of illicit fornication to her duped and satisfied husband entirely in metaphors : ( Sir , thank you by the love of God , I have indeed been in hard labour . |
| 4 | She was reduced to saying something — anything — rather than at this moment contemplate a trip to Bruges with a man whose mere offer of a lift home had shattered her poise so completely . |
| 5 | We are confronted with a man whose sole aim in life is to manipulate and destroy others , a dedication to evil that even Macbeth and his wife do not match . |
| 6 | I worked with a man whose severe stroke left him only able to say ‘ Yes , yes , yes ’ . |
| 7 | She had far more important things to think about , like how she was going to survive the next four weeks alone with a man whose quiet voice and manner hid a ruthlessness and determination that made steel look limp by comparison . |
| 8 | The key statement of Brenda 's turn is the one at line 15 – 16 , Mp:112> which gives her explanation of why she agreed to dance with a man whose initial approach had shocked her and led her to respond coolly . |
| 9 | Both powders and coarser materials are usually finely ground , and then intimately mixed with a liquid whose refractive index is close to that of the solid . |
| 10 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 11 | These parsers build the parse tree by starting with a rule whose right-hand side is a sentence , S. The rules are progressively expanded down to the rules having the lexical categories that match the input . |
| 12 | ( a ) Retirement and expulsion As explained in earlier chapters of this book , where no express provision is contained in a partnership agreement or satisfactory arrangements can not be agreed to meet the particular circumstances of the partner concerned , the Partnership Act only offers dissolution as the answer to what to do with a partner whose continued presence in the firm is unwanted by his co-partners . |
| 13 | It began with a Joey Cunningham shot blocked by Lee Greenhalgh , Strain 's free header from Russell 's free kick went inches past and then Russell with a saw his power-laden shot tipped over by Paul Rice . |
| 14 | Despite the essential superficiality of much of this contact , the traditional empathy between the nations has assisted the Japanese to be on good terms with a regime whose political ideology is the antithesis of their own . |
| 15 | A history which limits ‘ progress ’ to the sphere of a certain conceptualization of individuality can only see the collective associations of conventions and repetitions as regressive ; they represent the manipulative mould of mass society , together with a pseudo-archaism which that society uses to establish its historical credentials . |
| 16 | A feminist psychologist 's interview with and administering of a questionnaire to a young woman have stronger demand characteristics than they would have with a woman her own age . |
| 17 | But at least the mystery was nearing a solution — even if she had no idea why Luke Hunter should want to go out to dinner with a woman whose sole contact with him up till now had been violently centred somewhere round the solar plexus . |
| 18 | Shelley found herself with a woman whose slashed arm required urgent suturing . |
| 19 | Usually she flashed back with a Mind Your Own Business , if anyone asked her a question . |
| 20 | It is possible to foster pups with a mother whose natural litter would be 2 — 3 days old but the success rate is lower . |
| 21 | He also remembered the look of the adjustable spanner , and it seemed to him appropriate that having been knocked down with a spanner his whole body was now apparently being alternately wrenched and tightened . |
| 22 | Especially with an organisation whose public profile continues to rise , whose impact on governments is openly acknowledged , and which is steadily gathering support from more and more people . |
| 23 | The prime requirement then is to produce an extremely thin but uniform glass/rock bond ( ‘ zero bond' ) with an adhesive whose refractive index is close to that of glass . |
| 24 | Policewomen sometimes had to be called from other duties in order to deal with an incident which male colleagues felt incapable of handling . |
| 25 | Dorothy began the Alfoxden Journal with an entry which one editor , H. Eigerman , has printed in free verse as if it were an Imagist poem : |
| 26 | All of this has been achieved with an inevitability which few batsmen since Bradman have been able to suggest , and in 111 Tests at the end of the 1989–90 series he was just ten runs short of 8,000 at an average of 51 . |