Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more members of the American foreign service were coming to question the belief , strongly held at the end of the war , that the USSR was more likely to be caught up in rivalry with the British than with the United States . |
| 2 | Mrs Hill was a small , plump , middle-aged woman , with fine frizzy hair which she encased in a fine frizzy hair net ; she always wore a purple and blue flowered pinny , a garment more in keeping with an aunt or a cleaner than with a lover of science . |
| 3 | In such cases failure is even more painful than with a home student , and one has heard rumours of failed candidates having to return several years of fees to their government , and suffering even worse penalties . |
| 4 | With the second set of options ( long repayment period = low APR ) , the average repayment period chosen was if anything shorter than with the first ( short repayment period = low APR ) . |
| 5 | The system is further complicated by the fact that on many issues a Flemish socialist is far less likely to agree with a French-speaking fellow-socialist than with a conservative fellow-Fleming . |
| 6 | They are able to do this because with a large number of depositors it is highly unlikely that they would all want to withdraw their deposits at the same time . |
| 7 | She took a look at this man before her and summed him up in five seconds flat : he was from the country ; he was perspiring because he was wearing his one and only suit which was too heavy for the weather ; his shoes were outrageous , huge , clod-hopping things , but at least they had been polished ; his hands were heavy , his fingers thick as sausages so he was definitely a man of the land ; despite all that , he was quite polite and well-spoken though with a strong accent that she could identify as being Scottish but from which part of Scotland she could not say ; for some reason she was quite sure he was a liar . |
| 8 | But what of Mr Major 's claim that Mr Ashdown has more in common with Labour than with the Tories and could be the Trojan horse with which Mr Kinnock bursts through the wrought-iron gates into Downing Street ? |
| 9 | Such direct methods were hardly possible except with the backing of military power . |
| 10 | The clarification of water by means of sedimentation becomes more complex with the use of dosing methods and upward-flow tanks , but , with analytical checks on the treatment the results can be much more consistent than with the simpler settlement in mill lodges , and there need be no interruption in supply caused by variations in the raw water or the need for cleaning out tanks . |
| 11 | On occasions their function is much clearer than with the larger rectangular structures ; for instance , at West Stow 9 per cent of the sunken buildings contained weaving and textile-related equipment . |
| 12 | Robson Rhodes ' national head of audit , Bill Smith , believes that the fault lies with the professional bodies , as much as with the larger firms . |
| 13 | When , during the 1930s and 1940s , the concern was with the quantity as much as with the quality of population this particular objection carried little weight , although being drawn upon as a reason for not restricting a national scheme of family allowances to the working classes alone . |
| 14 | The issue is as much conceptual as empirical , having to do with the definition and measurement of handedness as much as with the demonstration of a hemisphere " dominance " effect . |
| 15 | That unpleasant responsibility is less necessary than it was but the habit of mind , in society as much as with the professions , lingers on . |
| 16 | Wherever responsibility for the mistakes lay — and it lay with Churchill and the British as much as with the Free French — the failure was a colossal humiliation for de Gaulle , because it showed an imperial administration utterly loyal to Vichy and more than capable of repelling the Free French . |
| 17 | The improvement tends to be more rapid than with an immature three or four year old due to the increased strength . |
| 18 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 19 | The philanthropist Albany in Fanny Burney 's Cecilia ( 1782 ) is regarded even by his creator as ‘ partially deranged ’ , and in any case spends less time with the authentic poor than with the middle-class Belfield , fallen on evil days . |
| 20 | The animation is reasonable , the cowboy shooting at you is especially well done , and the action is also smoother than with the other two games . |
| 21 | He 's got a very good serve , but the percentage of points he makes from the baseline is better than with the volley . |
| 22 | The common English proverb " Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy , wealthy and wise " is less concerned with self-denial than with a prescription for regular habits . |
| 23 | This is good news for all because with a few modifications hopefully on the same car I may be in with a chance for first prize next year where the prize money increases plus a trip to the States to see their ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ . |
| 24 | Yeah , erm modern when in choosing a mate and er connection with that because with the assumption that males generally do n't give any parental investment what really benefit them to you know biologically can , can support the offspring themselves short period of time why ca n't they then go you know to have their own I mean |
| 25 | If you withdraw it before then , you may still get more than with an ordinary bank or building society . |
| 26 | Many innovations have more to do with changes in the value systems of the individuals concerned than with the acquisition of wholly new skills . |
| 27 | Nowhere is this more evident than with the acquisition of companies . |
| 28 | As the blower is engine-driven , boost is always on hand , so response is much faster than with a turbocharger . |
| 29 | Point counting can be done by preparing transparent overlay coordinate grids at various sizes ; eye strain is found to be less than with a petrographic microscope . |
| 30 | Even less than with the designation of the polytechnics was the CNAA in the 1970s confronting a policy-driven situation . |