Example sentences of "with [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was facing the man in the lit room with only thin wood and a lot of glass between them and the man was still moving , the blue-black automatic squat and ugly in his fist . |
| 2 | Hurrying away on her next mission , Nicandra felt quietly elated because the little act of kindness in donating her scone had been accepted with so much pleasure and a thoughtful reservation for breakfast . |
| 3 | And he argues that changing social relations imply the need for more specialist and responsive service delivery , while changing managerial technologies ( particularly information technology ) make it possible to flatten managerial hierarchies by removing many of the middle layers and encouraging the growth of decentralized offices with less professional specialization and a greater ability to deal with individual issues across professional lines . |
| 4 | could , with somewhat sparser hair and a change |
| 5 | The career of one of his Foreign Office contemporaries had been said to have foundered after he said ‘ Pepper and salt ’ to the wife of a diplomat with uncertainly coloured hair and a poor command of the English language . |
| 6 | A plea of honest belief that a girl is above 16 is thus far more likely to be pleaded and with far greater success than a plea of honest belief in consent on a rape charge . |
| 7 | It was the altar — stuffed with as much clutter as a belle epoque boudoir — that really made me think . |
| 8 | The community care Support Force swung in on hard-pressed SSDs with as much subtlety as a ton of bricks . |
| 9 | Polish nationalism , as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out to Lenin on several occasions , was unusual in that it was not primarily a bourgeois phenomenon , but rather a substitute for ideology taken over from the szlachta by the Polish peasantry as they and the lower ranks of the gentry coalesced to form an industrial working class and a commercial bourgeoisie.14 An important component of Polish political life , and part of the damage wrought by partition , was the continuing failure to produce an ideology that went beyond the purely national to link the aspiration to exist as an independent nation with either capitalist organisation or a socialist vision of society . |
| 10 | They were used to seeing 3 × 80 oz. bottles put in with too much colour and a ‘ hope for the best ’ attitude . |
| 11 | He had acted in accordance with the Punjab creed , but with too much enthusiasm and a few decades too late . |
| 12 | It would be a serious game rifle with considerably more punch than a target toy , a guaranteed killer of the same gauge as the 7.62mm NATO standard issue Service weapons with which Forester was already familiar . |
| 13 | In a place like Alberta , with that much capital and a good deal of know-how , which he himself had , the boy could be quite wealthy before he was forty . |
| 14 | Bowyer was a short , squat man with very little hair and a cheery red face . |
| 15 | The passenger is about 22 , also with very short hair and a round face . |