Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing . |
| 2 | Grainne felt her heart thudding with such a fierceness that she could almost imagine he would hear it . |
| 3 | She was very pretty , this girl , dressed in a bright green cheong sam , her dark hair gleaming with natural oil , and framing a pert , oriental face . |
| 4 | The development of NVQs and SVQs is underpinned by the assumption that in order for Britain to maintain and enhance its economic position in an increasingly competitive market it requires a more qualified , skilled , flexible and adaptable workforce capable of acquiring the competences to cope with changing technology and methods of work . |
| 5 | When the bas-relief on a newly-opened post office was reviewed by The Times , the newspaper 's art correspondent commented with some inspiration , ‘ The design consists of a male and female nude , recumbent , but with a suggestion that they are floating in water . |
| 6 | A subordinate class , such as the working class will , by definition , be low on economic resources and this will reproduce its subordination ; but it may also possibly generate a collective ethic to cope with adverse circumstances and so reproduce itself in this way according to a common cultural identity . |
| 7 | White cutaway-collar broadcloth shirt ( Ben Sherman made these ) Club , regimental , etc. striped tie with stick-pin ; grey flannel parallels with normal size turnups , black toe-capped Oxfords . |
| 8 | There is nostalgia , and fantasy — both wonderfully caught in Blake Morrison 's evocative ‘ Turf Moor , and Other Fields of Dreams ’ — and there is fiction filled with four-letter words . |
| 9 | At home I grew up in old Victorian houses filled with antique furniture . |
| 10 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 11 | This is an interesting case to examine , of course , because in Problems of Social Policy Titmuss presented it as a clear example of a policy change engendered originally by the social debate on evacuation , and then given sudden new urgency by the ‘ decisive ’ influence of Dunkirk in July 1940 ; a marked change in government thinking — a new acceptance of the milk-in-schools scheme as a universalist social service rather than a relief measure tainted with Poor Law associations — took place ‘ five days after the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk ’ . |
| 12 | Both these rather delicately proportioned plants have more difficulty competing with other vigorous vegetation on the open river bank than they do in the neat crevices which man has provided for them . |
| 13 | She was alone in the world and owned nothing but the clothes in which she stood , a small attaché case filled with important things and a brown paper carrier bag containing shoes , stockings , and two crystal goblets carefully wrapped in a pair of white cotton knickers . |
| 14 | Let me not forget to mention the bakery in Waipukurau , which served us the most magnificent cream ( real cream ! ) buns filled with delicious real fruit conserve — wow ! |
| 15 | Nonetheless , the stimuli and tasks used in dichotic listening research have been almost as varied as the number of investigations undertaken with little or no attempt at proper validation . |
| 16 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 17 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 18 | According to Regulation 8(2) of these regulations a driver has the overall responsibility to proceed with due regard to the safety of other users of the road subject to the direction of any police constable etc . |
| 19 | Perrier 's competitors have had to put their plants on 24-hour shifts to cope with added demand from the unaccustomed absence of the once ubiquitous green bottles . |
| 20 | The main aim of their eight-week-long visit is to learn enough to set up a consultancy centre at the university as the Czechs , unused to the rising unemployment they now face , do not have the knowhow to cope with such upheaval . |
| 21 | Panel ( A ) : Nuclei treated with different concentrations of DNase I were digested with Kpn I , the blot probed with 5' Ea Sac I/Sal I ( Sc/S ) ( see Panel ( d ) filled box for exact location ) . |
| 22 | Panel ( B ) : Nuclei treated with different concentrations of DNase I were digested with Eco RI and the blot probed with Ea 695 ( P/K ) . |
| 23 | Nearly all of these groups correspond with major divisions of living animals , so the broad base of classification was established by the Cambrian . |
| 24 | A true performer needs patience to cope with all the waiting in the wings and general hanging about while some director chappie takes his pick of the talent . |
| 25 | You 'll need two of these because we want two O Hs to go with those two O Hs . |
| 26 | Nine out of ten of the users known to each agency lived with one or more adults , and the majority lived with one or more children . |
| 27 | Although we could not determine the sensitivity of thyroglobulin , the specificity of about 100% agrees with previous results . |
| 28 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |
| 29 | Hampshire director Terry Butler and former NHS deputy chief executive Andrew Foster led the group to assist authorities struggling with some aspects of implementation . |
| 30 | The Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin also visited Jerusalem , on Oct. 17 , and met with Israeli Foreign Minister David Levi , while Baker met with Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir . |