Example sentences of "at [noun pl] with [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
| 2 | He was particularly scathing of any suggestion of romanticisation , invoking the later , revised view of Engels of criminals as parasites on their own class and ideologically and politically at odds with the worker 's movement towards socialism . |
| 3 | Mulvey combined this Freudian explanation of pleasure in looking with the theory of the mirror stage in the work of Jacques Lacan , in which the child 's first recognition of itself in the mirror is called a misrecognition , because what the child sees in the mirror is an idealised whole and rounded image at odds with the child 's diffuse bodily experience of itself at that stage in development — it can not yet control its movements , let alone its environment . |
| 4 | The incidence of breast cancer detected is at odds with the government 's claim that its programme has sufficient safeguards . |
| 5 | There 's a heathland vista from the hotel 's bedroom balconies , but the course is largely woodland-style in undulating country quite at odds with the region 's terrain . |
| 6 | In all probability , his budget will be substantially rewritten as it trails through the Congressional maze and the eventual outcome may be quite at odds with the president 's original intention . |