Example sentences of "with [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Civil War , when the Yankees surrounded the southern ports , the Sutherlands made a fortune running the blockades with war supplies from the British and French , as well as helping the cotton export to flow from the ports of Wilmington , Charleston and Savannah . |
| 2 | It included a sharp attack on public spending , with cash limits on the public sector , the raising of minimum lending rate to 14 per cent , some sale of public assets to help finance the public-sector borrowing requirement , and a major switch from direct taxation to taxes on spending . |
| 3 | For example , take Tokai 's notorious early '80s Fender copies : at long last , affordable , pro-quality guitars with classic looks for the impoverished working musician . |
| 4 | When , for example , a subject fitted with scalp electrodes over the auditory cortex is played a series of brief clicks through headphones and the EEG following each click is averaged so that random fluctuations cancel each other out , what is left is a systematic but complex pattern of electrical waves which is caused by the click in the same way that the waves on the surface of a pond are caused by dropping a pebble into it . |
| 5 | Or huge satin ballgown skirts in shocking pink or lilac satin topped with rib-hugging knits for the new dance-in-a-cold-climate look . |
| 6 | Kurt at No 39 with Lithium suffers from the rare ailment narcolepsy which strikes any time . |