Example sentences of "with a [adj] [noun] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew and Virginia watched numbly as Horatia went to the door , returning a moment or two later with a small boy with silver-gold hair and eyes the colour of aquamarines . |
| 2 | Then she saw Nigel dancing with a well-rounded girl with yellow hair and pouting lips . |
| 3 | As normative reporting it justified the " utility of poverty " theory of low wages which was associated with a mercantile concern with low export prices . |
| 4 | Linguistics is the study of the mechanisms of language but Saussure breaks with a traditional concern with grammatical rules . |
| 5 | I only found out later that the back doors had puffed closed over the neck of an old lady who was trying to get on and her head , with a black hat with waxed fruit on it , was inside the bus , and the rest of her , carrying two full shopping bags was outside , running sideways . |
| 6 | He accepts the widely held view that the development of mass-production industry produced a sharp deterioration in the conditions of manual work and led to the emergence of a type of worker who combined a generalised hostility to the prevailing society with a primary preoccupation with militant economic action ; but he suggests that , as technology continues to develop , the increased use of full automation will eliminate many of the deepest sources of resentment about work , and , in so doing , encourage normative integration within the existing social structure of the enterprise . |
| 7 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 8 | I think we could both do with a luxury evening with good food , soft lights and a tranquil background . |
| 9 | I 'd got the riding gear from Duncan , but he 'd been unable to come up with a red helmet with black visor . |
| 10 | Despite the concern for promoting reflectiveness among teachers , their in-service opportunities have to compete with a week-by-week preoccupation with in-school organization — modifying the management plan , feeding information back into the cycle of formative teaching and testing and balancing the books in order to cover one more curriculum or non-curriculum speciality . |
| 11 | His first post-war book , The Structure of Complex Words ( 1951 ) , combines a lexical passion for the history of words with a free-wheeling fascination with literary Freudianism . |
| 12 | I had disguised myself with an old cardigan with faded leather elbow patches and a copy of the Daily Express . |