Example sentences of "with a [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be contrasted with a moral or rule-based association which is not held together by a common purpose but merely by the authority of common practices . |
| 2 | In the Maxwell case such vigilance was notably absent ; not one of those with a professional or personal interest — or duty-made any effort to alert the regulator . ’ |
| 3 | One quality of backbench life which is distracting for those with a professional or commercial training is that it lacks coherence , and there is an aimlessness which is debilitating . |
| 4 | It would have been amusing to watch Rainbow striving to loosen Riva 's rigidities , unbutton her inhibitions , slip off her certainties , rub away her prejudices with a gentle but persistent thumb . |
| 5 | The important point is this : is the use of an overseas company like Sterling ( where inquiries about the real ownership of shareholdings in threatened companies are met with a polite but firm snub ) acceptable within a legalframework trying to ensure fair play ? |
| 6 | The purpose of the calendar is to provide the press and broadcasting media with a colourful and informative guide of Scotland 's major sporting events . |
| 7 | The advantage of employing a specialist firm is that its tradesmen are more likely to be well trained and experienced in this field of building preservation , with a thorough and successful job being a more certain result . |
| 8 | Although there is increasing competition for lawyers in commerce and industry , people with a thorough and analytical approach to business and the law will be successful . |
| 9 | Certainly the only reasonable explanation for some of these occurrences ( such as those of Peregrinella ) seems to be that the organisms concerned lived in very restricted environments that did not normally get preserved , though this hardly explains their sudden appearance without obvious ancestors , with a wide but discontinuous distribution . |
| 10 | With a wide but slim blender brush , blend the darker shadow across the socket line and under the eye . ’ |
| 11 | Publishers today have provided teachers of history with a wide and varied range of books for class use . |
| 12 | Dining out is a real pleasure with a wide and tempting choice of menus and venues at a very affordable prices . |
| 13 | Stay assertive even when you do n't feel like it and especially when dealing with a submissive or aggressive person . |
| 14 | She was , however , immensely enthusiastic and encouraging , trying to make me think of the enterprise as a holiday as well as a mission with a sad and serious purpose . |
| 15 | And Mala had put on a figure-hugging neck-to-ankle suit of Luxipelt , which together with a whiskered and eared mask made her look like on of the slinkiest , most enticing Clovellyan felinoids I 'd ever seen . |
| 16 | Gilbert sobbed with a horrifying and muffled terror . |
| 17 | And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug which had just left us anchored outside the bar , I saw the straight line of the flat shore joined to the stable sea , edge to edge , with a perfect and unmarked closeness , in one levelled floor half brown , half blue under the enormous dome of the sky ( 3 ) . |
| 18 | With a kindly and humorous look at me he said , ‘ ’ Well , we could dress you in Burmese clothes , we could darken your skin and dye your hair . |
| 19 | Besides laughing with a comforting or gratifying sense of superiority when confronted with pictures of the incompetence of figures who the readers may recognize as representing their fellow men , the readers may also be regarded , she suggests , as laughing at common humankind and thus also ( unconsciously ) at themselves . |
| 20 | A big swell was rolling in , building waves like mountains in the mist and breaking with a thunderous and persistent roar . |
| 21 | The Congress then signalled its support for Ryzhkov with a thunderous and sustained ovation . |
| 22 | It was only his second international but again out half Eric Elwood stole the show with a marvellous and mature performance . |
| 23 | Improvise a short scene with a simple but clear beginning : " Can I go out to play now , Mum ? " |
| 24 | With a simple but delectable meal such as this , clean fresh wines are essential . |
| 25 | A Franciscan brother from the college is now part of the group and , wearing his habit , he held all of us spellbound with a simple but profound account of the calling of St Francis , his life and teaching , and of his own response to this . |
| 26 | But this is so only if we equate democracy with a simple and unrestrained majoritarianism , and as we have seen , there are good democratic reasons for not making that equation . |
| 27 | However , the lack of any service history is a major drawback when buying a six-year-old car with a greater than average degree of mechanical complexity . |
| 28 | They all had their own finger of dock with a greater or lesser craft . |
| 29 | Far from answering immediately with a negative or affirmative answer to his queries , the Blackrag Madonna puts her ruined head on one side , much as a girl of great beauty might do , and asks him questions in return . |
| 30 | I was threatened with a drunk and disorderly charge — I was neither . |