Example sentences of "[adv prt] with an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These priorities are also reflected in the prescriptions for teacher education laid down with an increasing degree of firmness from the centre . |
| 2 | After a wait Toby came along the upstairs corridor and sent Pickerage down with an encouraging pat on the shoulder . |
| 3 | These are visible by phase-contrast and polarization microscopy and occur in many Pterygote insects ; such layers are not found in Apterygotes and are laid down with an irregular rhythm in the Coleoptera . |
| 4 | A week later , however , Charlie Allen of the CIA sat down with an undercover agent in North 's office to hear North read from his notebook |
| 5 | He stares out at us with steely blue eyes , his hair neatly twisted into one dark curl on his forehead ; he 's sporting a smart black frock-coat with a neatly-buttoned waistcoat and a full cravat anchored down with an ornate jewelled pin and chain . |
| 6 | In the hall of the castle Sir John was reasoning with a group of servants while Lady Charlotte had hysterics under the portrait of a clan chief of the sixteenth century — an armoured and bearded warrior who looked down with an imperious black stare . |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted to write a thoughtful song about recent events , and it was important that I just did n't leap right in with an immediate gut reaction . ’ |
| 8 | His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship . |
| 9 | A fifth-wicket partnership between Barber ( 50 ) and Broom ( 36 no ) put Waltham in with an outside chance , but the run rate crept up and 15 from the last over was too much . |
| 10 | ‘ A draw would keep us in with an outside chance of going to the States . |
| 11 | If there are problems , le we could work them through together , but I think this is much more interesting to be , sort o I think to be linked in with an outside project like this , and just to be working away in isolation , and so we 'll feel our way experimentally . |
| 12 | As Steve Bevan , editor of Sales Promotion magazine says : ‘ Companies are now using sales promotion on a more strategic basis , ensuring it ties in with an overall brand strategy . |
| 13 | A concessionary one mile bridleway — where use is granted by the landowner — has been opened across the northwestern embankment of Yarrow Reservoir to link in with an existing bridleway . |
| 14 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 15 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 16 | You will get better help if you have outlines and ideas for the supervisor to react to ; experiment with your ideas and see what reactions you get , rather than waiting to produce ideas that you are sure fit in with an established approach . |
| 17 | Arguments of this sort which confused the " lower sorts of men " with the " higher sorts of ape " were not simply exercises in increasingly refined scientific discrimination ; they were closely meshed in with an ongoing dialectical debate , the original purpose of which had been to establish a synthesis between the theological doctrine of the Fall and the newly discovered facts of human geography . |
| 18 | But his world super-middleweight title fight with Roberto Duran , ushered in with an awesome display of fireworks to mark the opening of the largest resort in Las Vegas , turned out to be a stalemate in styles , a fistic folly in which the two outstanding exponents of the Eighties brought the decade to a close amid booing and jeering . |
| 19 | My Boss says a man rings in with an upset stomach and you know either he means a hangover or else his brother managed to get him a ticket for Wembley . |
| 20 | There was a great deal of encouragement and a helping hand for those finding it tough , mixed in with an occasional piece of mild blasphemy as yet another pilgrim went sprawling on the wet peat . |
| 21 | Ilse came in with an orange-coloured book . |
| 22 | Close to dawn she forced herself into bed , but she was still wide-eyed when the maid came in with an early-morning cup of tea . |
| 23 | Neil Fairbrother chipped in with an unbeaten 61 as Lancashire cruised to maximum batting points . |
| 24 | We went in with an open mind , but I have to be honest , the presentation was so abysmal , that there was no way that we could in fact continue with them , and we have the same problem with the cleaning contract . |
| 25 | It was getting on for ‘ good night ’ time when I fell in with an old lady who complained that the naughty children of Sligo pulled her ivy down and swore at her . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's linked in with an audio tape facility which comes through the left earpiece , and the computer sound connects with the other . ’ |
| 27 | The recorder came in with an adagio-like slowness and gravity , momentarily wobbled off-key , then recovered . |
| 28 | He looked frightening and she had a momentary sensation of having caged herself in with an angry lion . |
| 29 | Taking it all in with an observant eye , Feherty called his first practice round with Ian Woosnam ‘ a fantastic walk round a property that could well be owned by the National Trust ’ . |
| 30 | He had moved in with an older man , TV director Roger Brackett . |