Example sentences of "with a [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some efforts at literacy work have been made by church groups and by the government , but they only deal with a tiny fraction of the problem . |
| 2 | The Third was a highbrow station , with a tiny proportion of the audience . |
| 3 | Freckenhorst Abbey Church ( 332 ) is typical , with flanking , circular western towers and a cliff-like central mass with a tiny doorway at the bottom , tiny windows above and surmounted by a tall roof and turret . |
| 4 | His hair is in braids , with a striking example of the raised Crow-style fringe characteristic of Joseph 's band of the Nez Perce . |
| 5 | So I strode away , with a casual wave to the family of farmers . |
| 6 | The girls did n't flounce on , as the song throbbed away on the night , and the handsome young Miguelito stood upright , wandering into the crowd with a casual roll of the hips , as he strummed his guitar , coaxing yet more sensuous chords from it . |
| 7 | This was not only designed to withstand the heat without soaking up liquid vinyl like blotting-paper , but it was supplied with a distinctive pattern on the back to indicate the direction of the paper grain . |
| 8 | Figure 5.11(b) shows an increase in the areas a and b with a consequent reduction in the proportion ( although not the absolute number ) of c elements activated by a stimulus . |
| 9 | The single most useful measure for preventing Type 2 diabetes in the industrialised nations would be a reduction in energy intake with a consequent reduction in the prevalence of obesity , hyperlipidaemia , glucose intolerance and possibly hypertension . |
| 10 | However , there is evidence of a slight increase in teenage pregnancy rate in 1981 in England and Wales for all ages between fourteen and nineteen compared to the previous year , with a consequent rise in the numbers of girls who had babies and who had abortions . |
| 11 | Here one can see the same assumption that Hastings ' power is the king 's power , with a consequent blurring of the two retinues . |
| 12 | Here one can see the same assumption that Hastings ' power is the king 's power , with a consequent blurring of the two retinues . |
| 13 | This moves the reporting from the periphery of newspaper journalism to the centre , with a consequent increase in the readership and the normalisation of these sorts of reports . |
| 14 | The higher proportion of the prison population which had been sentenced to imprisonment for offences triable on indictment meant that the sentences served were longer than before , with a consequent increase in the size of the prison population overall . |
| 15 | If the density of workers to the hectare was changed from forty three to thirty four with a consequent increase in the allocation of provision , could you cope with that ? |
| 16 | This was the idea , popularised in Shonfield 's Modern Capitalism but covered in a very large number of other works also , that a shift was occurring away from territorially based representation towards representation based on functional cleavages , with a consequent decline in the power of the territorially based representative assemblies known as parliaments and an ever-increasing role for corporatist organisations able to negotiate for organised functional interests at the national level . |
| 17 | The instances where one can most easily make oneself aware of the distinction are perhaps the ambiguous phrases where the same adjective in construction with the same noun can be understood in either way with a consequent effect on the meaning of the whole phrase . |
| 18 | Decisions about management , life-styles and living arrangements , even about educational capacity have been taken by doctors with a consequent decrease in the power of individuals and their families to plan and control their lives . |
| 19 | William Titford , furnishing undertaker , funeral-carriage master and featherman , would provide his clients with a first-class funeral for the princely sum of £29 . |
| 20 | Sir , — I read the article in the October issue , When growth and stability turned to disaster ( see p 26 ) , with a good deal of interest having worked with a professional firm in the Isle of Wight in the fifties , and knowing something of the type of clientele referred to . |
| 21 | Teachers , with a professional nose for the job had been handling a range of social issues , especially under the general heading of PSE ( Personal and Social Education ) . |
| 22 | It was left to Rogers to try to forestall the play-off with a devilish 12-footer at the home green . |
| 23 | The next day as breakfast was being served , the team gave the tiny winger a standing ovation , greeting him with a rousing chorus of the old bar-room classic What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor ? |
| 24 | This long vacation tour provided the material for the poem Descriptive Sketches , which concludes with a rousing cry for the spread of Liberty , presumably by means of war and revolution . |
| 25 | There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) . |
| 26 | I 'm agitated , ’ she said with a gentle smile as the tension mounted around what seemed such a small ring for two massive men . |
| 27 | My parents were from a long line of good people with a strong sense of duty , living at peace with their neighbours , quick to be helpful when it was in their power , understandably a little feudal in their outlook , with a cautious eye on the squire for whom they worked , liking a glass of beer or homemade parsnip wine , and not above a bit of rabbit poaching . |
| 28 | At intervals , re-crossing his cramped legs humped on the hassock of his kit-bag , his boot struck Meredith 's shin and he muttered an apology , to which Meredith responded with a polite shrug of the shoulders . |
| 29 | The team took up the gauntlet thrown down by the Health and Safety Executive and came up with a thorough checklist for the city 's 7 homes . |
| 30 | If you decide to dispense with a thorough dig through the whole plot and merely take out planting holes , at least try to follow the above principle : dig two spits deep , and reverse them with the more fertile top spit going down to root level . |