Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] with [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are hitches and hassles aplenty to contend with now and what makes it worse is that you 're powerless to do anything except grumble and grouse . |
| 2 | It is possible to paint with quite a small brush the details of shadows and shapes of clouds — in fact more so than is generally accepted . |
| 3 | And posing with Bungo the dog , the new minister showed he 's willing to work with both children and animals . |
| 4 | The survey found that 16 per cent had made plans about caring for relatives , and many said they were prepared to help with less demanding tasks such as transport and shopping . |
| 5 | Support workers rarely left because they found other preferred employment or because they disliked the work ( this happened with only three of the workers in Ipswich and only four in Newham ) . |
| 6 | This compares with just 2,146 in 1988 . |
| 7 | This compares with just over £15m raised for the 1987 election . |
| 8 | This compares with just 37 recorded between 1984 and 1992 . |
| 9 | This compares with just 11pc a decade ago . |
| 10 | This compares with just 11% a decade ago . |
| 11 | This compares with about £560 million in 1970 , when bank credit cards had barely started . |
| 12 | This compares with around three million at the same stage of the last BT share sale in 1991 and has led to criticism of the £15 million advertising campaign . |
| 13 | This compares with only three species in the predator assemblage , with 66 per cent consisting of a single species . |
| 14 | This compares with only 5 per cent of owner-occupied homes having severe damp , and 17 per cent of council homes . |
| 15 | This compares with only about 25 per cent for US retail and 40 per cent for US mail order . |
| 16 | As it is , not only is the average specification of cars sold in Britain the highest in Europe , but cars destined for the British market also tend to be bigger , with ‘ upper-medium-sized ’ cars disproportionately popular compared with elsewhere in Europe . |
| 17 | They lay more eggs than European owls : the mean clutch size in Malaysia is 6.6 compared with around 5.5 in Europe ; and while Europeans lay only one clutch each year , the Malayan barn owls reproduce twice or even three times a year . |
| 18 | And if you 're prepared to part with over £100 , Shine On ( EMI ) by Pink Floyd will make someone very happy with its 8-CD journey through the band 's career . |
| 19 | So far this accords with almost any interpersonal situation which produces problems between the persons concerned . |
| 20 | This contrasts with very much larger allocations in many universities with similar research funding levels . |
| 21 | Breakfast , served in the dining room at a large Victorian mahogany table , is prepared to order with locally baked wholemeal bread , farm eggs and home-made marmalade . |
| 22 | Various approaches have been suggested , including mixed strategies , for example where there is a set of policies each played with strictly positive probability ( Shubik. 1970 ) . |
| 23 | The inspection and the self-appraisal seemed to be two entirely different processes : each operated with quite a different agenda and entirely different methods were used in each case . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's dangerous to drive with only one hand on the wheel , and I object to your touching me . ’ |
| 25 | By detecting heat this can provide a picture that would be impossible to detect with just the human eye . |
| 26 | This means that by changing the microcode in their chips , Intel can readily adapt DVI to conform with both JPEG and MPEG standards when they are known . |
| 27 | There is much to sympathize with here , but this study will not adopt a realist perspective . |
| 28 | His cathedral city was one of the favourite centres of the Burgundian kings , and he therefore had much to do with both Gundobad and his son Sigismund . |
| 29 | At Cuddington , an adjacent manor belonging to the same lord , there were thirteen land assessments in 1522 compared with only two freeholders a generation later . |
| 30 | A total of 360 paintings by the artists in the index were sold in 1991 compared with over 700 in 1990 . |