Example sentences of "[noun pl] with a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some Japanese still harbour a nostalgia for lost European greatness , the ‘ Western ’ package which formerly embraced all cultural , intellectual , physical and institutional characteristics with a source in Western Europe or the US has now come to mean almost exclusively the latter . |
| 2 | To their credit , they 've all but ditched RDF 's cringeworthy word polemics , giving a greater role to singer Linda Goodman and infusing almost all their songs with a wealth of nightmarish samples . |
| 3 | Even Colin MacInnes remains convinced that music-hall was ‘ an act of working-class self assertion ’ although he concludes his analysis of the music-hall songs with a phrase that should set film historians thinking , for he sees them as a ‘ sort of bastard folk song of an industrial-commercial-imperial age ’ . |
| 4 | There are currently two positions available in the toxicology department in Lyon : these two posts would normally be suitable for toxicologists with a postgraduate qualification . |
| 5 | As he himself said , it would be pointless to study such peoples with a questionnaire , since they do not write , and , while he certainly gained a great deal of essential information from conversation and discussion , it would have been quite futile to try to conduct any kind of interview until he had gained their trust and confidence , and until he had some idea of what kinds of questions he should be asking . |
| 6 | Trees and the treasury : Valuing Forests for Society argues that a history of subsidised conifer plantations has left timber growers with a surplus of mature trees which cost more to fell and process than they earn as timber . |
| 7 | He looked helplessly at the adjutant , who was eating ; then at Woolley , who was cleaning his ears with a match stick ; and turned back . |
| 8 | I myself was accidentally witness to the diverting scene of a journeyman taylor 's beating his wife about the ears with a neck of mutton , to make her know , as he said , her sovereign lord and master . |
| 9 | Rough shaping of the ears with a coping saw ( below left ) and the complete horse ( below ) |
| 10 | Each segment of the input word has a set of possible character combinations with a probability score to indicate how close the character matched the character stored in the database . |
| 11 | I 'll tell you , if ever I get into the Owsla , I 'll treat outskirters with a bit of decency . " |
| 12 | Intrusions can be composed of a wide range of rock types , although very large intrusions with a surface exposure of over 100 km 2 known as batholiths , often have an acidic granitic composition ( Fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's funny how one associates places with irrelevant things , ’ said Penelope , who had been listening to Sophia 's probings with a kind of fascinated horror . |
| 14 | World Environment Day will start with a commemorative ceremony in the Palace of Fine Arts with a keynote address by the President of Mexico . |
| 15 | On 20 January 1789 , Eccleston concluded a letter to the editor of the Transactions of the Society of Arts with a postscript : ‘ Mr Moorcroft is a young man of the greatest abilities , and has agreed to turn his thoughts from the practice of physic and surgery , entirely to that of farriery in every branch , provided he can meet with sufficient and certain encouragement in the establishment of a Veterinarian School . |
| 16 | She eventually transferred to the Tisch School of Arts , New York University , graduating in Fine Arts with a film major . |
| 17 | The Museum , which was opened in 1961 , was initiated by two Americans who combined a deep appreciation of the American arts with a desire to increase Anglo-American understanding . |
| 18 | The church in Sussex lasted over four centuries with a minimum of influence upon surviving historical records , although the scale of its eleventh-century church towers at Sompting , Southease and other places , illustrate that authority if not the people supported it . |
| 19 | Yes erm modern business parks , erm they come in various shapes and sizes , some in extensive landscape settings with a lot of space around them , er and some at er Clifton Moor in York which er are more compact . |
| 20 | He smacked his legs with a birch branch . |
| 21 | An occasional application of lindane at a concentration of 2 per cent to kill headlice is certainly likely to be more effective than breaking their legs with a nit comb and avoids the discomfort of literally feeling lousy . |
| 22 | She stood on a chair and I used to have to draw the lines round the back of her legs with a pencil . |
| 23 | Once , that was after Maman had gone , and when his own mother was distant , she had compelled him to eat a whole snail , slashing his legs with a nettle till he obeyed , and the stinging of the nettle really enlivened his dancing . |
| 24 | ‘ I can tell you , ’ said Bobbie , as Juliet recorded her findings , ‘ I shall treat my legs with a lot more respect after this ! ’ |
| 25 | Heat can be applied in several forms and by several methods with a variety of equipment the more common of which are as follows- . |
| 26 | Both the Society and Heather Last are concerned that the report compares traditional methods with a Peto school in Birmingham barely up and running . |
| 27 | Distribution of labelled cells within crypts was similar with respect to the two methods with a peak at the 18th and the 24th percentile in the case of BrdU and at the 23rd percentile for PCNA . |
| 28 | Introductory notes give tips on tension swatches , measurements and knitting methods with a list of suggestions on how to use the designs to create individual and personalised garments . |
| 29 | Some nodules with a diameter of 4–6 mm in three of 13 pancreatic sections in the PBD group , but none of those in the fundectomy group , were surrounded by a fibrous capsule and maintained an acinar cell differentiation suggesting adenomatous change ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 30 | Serve these tempting snacks with a glass or two of your favourite festive fizz . |