Example sentences of "[adv] with the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Lord Grubb was an ancient hereditary peer who kept up eagerly with the times and was trying at the moment to unlock his capital to set up a chain of waffle shops .
2 Therefore absolute trust , which we placed eagerly with the likes of Clarkie and as a result had our faces rubbed in the dirt , can not reasonably be expected .
3 The complicated nature of this debate is also shown by the fact that analysis of General Household Survey data for 1974 by Klein and Collins reached results which disagree somewhat with the findings reported so far .
4 It contrasts somewhat with the wishes of John Patten , education secretary for England and Wales , who wrote last year : ‘ Dwindling belief in redemption and damnation has led to loss of fear of the eternal consequences of goodness and badness . ’
5 Indeed , in another passage in the Ali differentiates the haric elli ( and 40-akce ) and dahil grades of medreses on the basis not of geographical location but of their builders — the 40-akce and medreses being the foundations of the families of pre-Ottoman rulers and [ Ottoman ] vezirs and emirs , the medreses the foundations of the families of Ottoman sultans — method of classification which accords rather better with the actualities of his time ( late sixteenth century ) but which provides no apparent explanation for the terms themselves .
6 ‘ I find I can blend in better with the locals if I understand their language .
7 Murdock stayed in Cornwall for about 19 years and got on much better with the miners than Watt had done .
8 The National Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Children is increasingly concerned with helping families to cope better with the demands of rearing children .
9 It is superior firstly in that it accords better with the facts of prison disorders .
10 Psychological counselling may help accident victims like Richard Eaton cope better with the flashbacks .
11 And , of course , closely packed plants compete not only with the weeds but with each other .
12 It can not be otherwise : self governing will happen only with the doctors ' approval and only if they are convinced that patients will benefit . ’
13 As noted above , the supervision exercised by the member state in which the head office is located is exclusive , and will be shared only with the authorities in the member states where business is conducted .
14 These sonatas now supplement the string quartets recorded but the real picture of Krenek can emerge only with the operas Jonny spielt auf and Karl V .
15 Some of the lbw decisions — out and not-out — left distinctly uncomfortable feelings not only with the players concerned but with viewers and commentators .
16 There are areas of education in which boys do badly ( modern languages , for example ) ; yet liberal feminists tend to be concerned only with the areas where girls are less successful , such as science and mathematics .
17 The level of demand is to do not only with the tasks as they are done but also with the duration for which they must continue to be done .
18 It concerns itself , not only with the operators but also very much with the role of the local authorities — in this case , principally those of Edinburgh and Leith .
19 I will leave them behind me and go only with the clothes on my back , and then I have two miles and a half and a byway to the town , and bring pretty well dressed I may come to some harm almost as bad as what I ran away from , and then , perhaps , it will be reported I have stolen something , and to carry a bad name to my dear parents …
20 If a man talks only with the prisoners of his own world then he will seek out a stranger …
21 Introduced plants are also a major problem , but in this article I shall deal only with the animals .
22 The Christians believed that by the death of Jesus , the suffering servant of Isaiah , God had formed a new covenant not only with the Jews but with all peoples of the earth .
23 The first significant change to the political map of the Merovingian kingdom occurred with the campaign of Theudebert II and Theuderic II against Chlothar II in the year 600 , as a result of which the latter was left only with the territories of Beauvais , Amiens and Rouen .
24 If the new husband 's financial status is not acceptable to the mortgagee , so that the mortgagee is only prepared to agree to a conveyance of the property to the wife and new husband if the husband remains liable under the original mortgage , then it would seem reasonable for the husband to comply only with the terms of the court order or matrimonial agreement ( to which of course the new husband is not a party ) and not to convey/transfer to the wife and the new husband .
25 I — I do n't know if I was ever so pleased … not only with the presents , but with the kind thoughts of our neighbours .
26 In this case the testator has provided for that , but only with the words acceptis centum .
27 Ovation will differ from America 's sole current provider of high-brow television , the non-profit Public Broadcasting System ( PBS ) by dealing only with the arts , as opposed to science , educational and general news shows .
28 ONLY WITH THE ADVANCES IN SYNTHETIC CHEMICALS HAVE ‘ DEVELOPED ’ NATIONS BROKEN THEIR DEPENDENCE ON PLANT MATERIALS
29 ‘ We are now downright scared because we have been pushed into a confrontation not only with the police but also with the military , ’ Harris says .
30 Unable to say anything , I held out the book in my shaking hand , holding it only with the tips of my fingers .
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