Example sentences of "[adj] with a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you photographed a dead Marine with a poncho over his face and got paid for it , you were some kind of parasite . ’ |
| 2 | Blair again converted , and just after the break out half Keith Megarry took over the kicking duties to put Dungannon 20 points clear with a penalty . |
| 3 | He put the letter aside and took a fresh piece of parchment , smoothing it out and rubbing it clear with a pumice stone . |
| 4 | Three drivers will be burning their L-plates tonight after passing their driving tests first time , but , as John Kane , reports besides needing good road sense the men had to be pretty nifty with a shovel full of coal . |
| 5 | She said she was beaten almost daily with a horse whip or flex until she bled , forced to sleep on the floor and kept without food , sometimes for two or three days . |
| 6 | I 've always had an ear for accents , and I gave them my best German and Italian and my speciality : French with a hint of Punjabi . |
| 7 | True , the area is short on tough physical challenge , but it 's got loads of charm and what 's wrong with a bit charm now and then ? |
| 8 | Again , the more the merrier … we are leaving ourselves open to a few ‘ active ’ neutrals who will try and stir things up … but its always easy for gav to exclude any twats … if it gets a bit too fruity of course … nothing wrong with a bit of friendly banter and discussion . |
| 9 | What 's wrong with a bit of shit stirring it is certain to get us some inch space ? |
| 10 | Nothing wrong with a choc , is there ? |
| 11 | There is obviously something wrong with a portrayal of children as totally lacking in reason until they leap out of bed on their tenth birthday announcing that they are now able to act on principle . |
| 12 | If there was nothing wrong with a sheet or a pillow-case or a chair cover she might take it apart , so that her skill was needed to put it together again . |
| 13 | There is something wrong with a law that allows that to happen . |
| 14 | I think if you can calf them and then put them onto the floor I think when there are sides that they can feed for themselves more there would be nothing wrong with a floor byre at all really . |
| 15 | But no , nothing wrong with a bike . |
| 16 | There 's nothing wrong with a man living under an assumed name and besides that , I could n't prove that Mr Broadhurst and Samuel Northcliffe were one and the same , any more than I could prove that it was The Fat Controller who had killed the woman at the Theatre Royal with a spring-loaded hypodermic full of curare , rather than anyone else . |
| 17 | There 's nothing wrong with a bun as long as you decorate it with a hair accessory . |
| 18 | Surely any fool should be able to see that there is something wrong with a child like that . |
| 19 | It is important to note , however , that there is nothing inherently wrong with a conflict of interest situation in itself ; the issue is whether such a situation is handled properly . |
| 20 | There is something wrong with a system that analyses failure in such a drastic way . |
| 21 | ‘ If something goes wrong with a customer 's car they want it repaired as quickly as possible , ’ said Peugeot Parts and Service Director Charles Greenland . |
| 22 | Quine suggests very plausibly that , even if experience shows something to be wrong with a theory , it can not point a finger at any particular hypothesis . |
| 23 | Anything ever go wrong with a coffee machine , then send for Bill Erlich . |
| 24 | Also , there is often the suspicion that there is something wrong with a business that has to use factoring to raise money . |
| 25 | I mean what 's wrong with a kiss for God 's sake ? |
| 26 | What on earth was wrong with a woman having a younger lover ? |
| 27 | Inevitably there is always something wrong with a property and the vendor will not wish to let the purchaser use a minor problem as an excuse for not completing the transaction . |
| 28 | Not for them the comprehensibility or even the logic spelt out by the Prime Minister shortly after his election as leader of the Conservative party when he rightly said that there was something wrong with a tax that resulted in 50 per cent . |
| 29 | ‘ THERE has to be something wrong with a tax system in which a police sergeant falls into the same tax bracket as a multi-millionaire ’ — Tory MP Keith Hampson . |
| 30 | As I 've mentioned above , contracted polyps do not necessarily mean that there is anything wrong with a leather coral , but well-expanded specimens are definitely healthy . |