Example sentences of "with [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down to his last few hundred dollars , and with nothing but the good offices of a public defender standing between him and the octopus , it was time to evacuate the hostages . |
| 2 | But in Saussure 's system there are only the two terms , Signifier and Signified , with nothing in the third column . |
| 3 | He was of course on first-name terms with everyone from the Prime Minister downwards whom he probably and inappropriately called ‘ man ’ . |
| 4 | If you 're on a sailing or windsurf holiday you may still book without a supplement if you 're willing to share with someone on the same holiday . |
| 5 | Second , the court held that marriage as an institution is , by definition , the association of someone of the male sex with someone of the female sex , gender having no relevance . |
| 6 | In the absence of an analysis of heterosexism , heterosexuals can ( and do ) reduce our gayness or lesbianism to just living with someone of the same sex , thus enabling them to remove the possibility of challenge from our relationships with them . |
| 7 | When you decide to get married , fix yourself up with someone of the old school , not one of those feminist flibbertigibbets of the kind Jim and I have landed ourselves with — undomesticated , never there , eyes set on further career mountains to be climbed . |
| 8 | There 's always that barrier to be got over , when you are going to sleep with someone for the first time , and I just thought it would be a good time to get it over with . |
| 9 | For I am on equal terms with someone for the first time in my life . |
| 10 | When he assumed the role of the accountant and conducted the whole conversation with someone at the other end who was trying to make an appointment , he was brilliant . ’ |
| 11 | Worse , he 's spent the last hour with someone from the Daily Express . |
| 12 | I move away as I would prefer to talk with someone from the same planet . |
| 13 | Though Craig and Jo have a number of sexy scenes together in Home and Away , she says the advantage of her real-life relationship with someone in the same industry is that her partner fully understands that romantic clinches with an international heart-throb are just part of the job . |
| 14 | Yeremi found himself thinking passionately of that anonymous slave abandoned in the pitch-dark tube , with none of the superhuman muscle power of a Scout to help him , and fetters to mock his efforts . |
| 15 | The Tuesday morning was overcast and dull with none of the compensating crispness that had helped Forester to crawl back to an alert state on previous days . |
| 16 | It was also a positive term with none of the negative connotations of Nonconformist or Dissenter . |
| 17 | The DACs give the function OUT1/SCALE to scale each half cycle to the same magnitude , which is said to provide a 20dB increase in loudness , subjectively , with none of the usual speech compression problems . |
| 18 | Patients with none of the five risk factors had a four week healing rate of 82.7% ( 95% CI 77.7 , 87.7% ) whereas those with two of the five risk factors had four week healing rates ranging from 50.0% to 64.9% ( Table IV ) . |
| 19 | Wilson himself at his first meeting with President Johnson seems to have struck the right note with his claim that his was a forward-looking government with none of the imperial nostalgia of its predecessor . |
| 20 | We found him on the floor getting cold and with none of the other monkeys taking much notice . |
| 21 | The result is a door with all the appeal of hand-crafted timber , but with none of the associated problems of up-keep . |
| 22 | Wave power was ‘ back at square one ’ with none of the present crop of devices ‘ ready to go to large-scale trial ’ . |
| 23 | The women , too , had to cope with all the household duties , including feeding men and hired hands with appetites honed by constant fresh air and exercise , with none of the labour-saving aids which most women took for granted . |
| 24 | In 1987 , when she entered the House of Commons as the MP for Norfolk South West — a safe-as-houses rural Tory seat — she was already 46 , with none of the outward trappings of a high-flier , merely a proven ability to work swiftly and effectively and an unthreatening charm . |
| 25 | Supper at the kitchen table — bread coarsely cut and buttered , with none of the little refinements that were considered necessary for the family , who ate in another room . |
| 26 | The databases these packages sport are the simple flat-file kind , with none of the relational gizmos found in Access or Paradox for Windows . |
| 27 | Over time the interest group universe will be very stable , with none of the free-wheeling alliances and rapid organizational growth and declines expected by pluralists . |
| 28 | I had discovered in Egypt what seemed like a different religion : a thing of unimaginable heights and depths , of light and shadow with none of the vertiginous darkness of which Lili had spoken . |
| 29 | It was gentle , with none of the strident accent which would have been more in keeping with the circumstances . |
| 30 | Obviously it was very much an ad hoc programme , with none of the smaller aircraft being able to get airborne and some aircraft from elsewhere being prevented fro leaving their home bases . |