Example sentences of "[vb -s] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As do higher-order animals , as anyone who lives with a cat or a dog will confirm .
2 He is refused hospitality by the rich village priest , who lives with a concubine .
3 Now he earns £75 a week as a filing clerk , lives with a cousin and attends Narcotics Anonymous meetings .
4 attendance allowances for members , I would move that er , a scheme be commenced from the first of April ninety-four , and that the wording attached to the paper , be altered in two respects , in place of the phrase is a person over sixty-nine years of age , the words is an elderly person , and more significantly at the end of paragraph four , and normally lives with a member as part of the member 's family and be able to be left at th , be unable to be left unsupervised , be added , And that er , power to delegate a director of financial to amend the rates of allowances from time to time rates of attendance allowance for members , and that the scheme be met from the overall member 's allowance to which we recently referring .
5 If the person lives with a family member with whom he has an intense relationship , characterised by a high level of criticism and overinvolvement , his risk of relapse is much higher than it would be in a less intense atmosphere ( Brown et al. , 1972 ; Leff and Vaughn , 1981 ) .
6 When everyone in the country lives with the prospect of having their house destroyed by a bomb during the night , the Christian talk of Armageddon seems less fanciful than in the ‘ weak piping times of peace ’ .
7 Glenn Ross has done wonders with a player like fly-half John Steele but the man who has put Northampton on the map almost single handed is unquestionably Wayne Shelford .
8 Internal legislative authority lies with a parliament ( Landsting ) and executive authority with the government ( Landsstyre ) , while two representatives are sent to the Danish parliament .
9 Perhaps the way forward lies with a physician with an interest in diabetes based in each district general hospital providing a nucleus of expertise and sharing care with interested general practitioners .
10 Budgetary and legislative control lies with a cabinet backed by the formidable mechanisms of party , and few parliamentary committees have real teeth .
11 If there is a future beyond social democracy and state socialism , it lies with an alternative to pandering to consumerism and the status quo .
12 Tutor Viv Shelley will look at whether manufacturing industries are living up to the green images they promote , the adequacy of monitoring processes and ask what responsibility lies with the public .
13 The responsibility for repaying an unsecured personal loan or a credit card debt lies with the person or persons who were party to the agreement .
14 As Hodder and Riggs ( 1985 ) say , in response to Hayes and Garvin , the fault , if any , in US business lies with the way the DCF technique is often based on inadequate data ( i.e. inadequate consideration of the factors affecting cash flows ) or incorrectly applied ( i.e. incorrectly using discount rates , or adjusting for inflation as discussed in chapter 1 ) .
15 The final decision on their fate lies with the government .
16 The reason for this lies with the majority of match anglers being brainwashed into using gossamer-fine line and tiny hooks , no matter what the species or situation demands .
17 The record , at present , lies with the turkey : some females have been reported laying fertile eggs ten weeks after their last mating .
18 ‘ Economic success ’ , he writes , ‘ lies with the country and the region and the city that innovate , that keep one step ahead of the action ’ ( Hall , 1985 ) .
19 Too much power lies with the Council of Ministers who meet in secret , making it almost impossible for the public , national governments and the European Parliament to follow their decision making process .
20 Where the fault lies with the structure of the job there is little point in blaming the holder of the job .
21 The problem lies with the interpretation of the regulations governing the safety of toys .
22 The generative power of the story lies with the organ of generation — and veneration .
23 Nevertheless the predominant catholic power lies with the hierarchy and secular clergy .
24 Their only viable future lies with the kind of measures proposed by the early-1980s SDP — industrial partnership and incomes policies — plus the sort of trade unionism proposed by the electricians ' union , EETPU .
25 The Commission takes the view that responsibility for the initiatives to be taken as regards the implementation of social rights lies with the Member States , their constituent parts , or the two sides of industry , as well as , within the limits of its powers , with the European Community . ’
26 In such an environment , competitive advantage lies with the organisation that has the richest variety and frequency of interaction with the customer , not because this builds brands awareness , but because it offers the greatest opportunities to identify and to react the events that signal credit demand .
27 In India , the responsibility clearly lies with the company .
28 Maybe the fault lies with the BFI , an ageing bureaucracy with its own interests to protect , its own ideas of what constitutes ‘ exciting new film ’ .
29 If both red and green images are weak , the problem lies with the position of the lens .
30 In either case , the effect on the child may be highly adverse , and the social worker whose duty lies with the child does well to take full account of the implications .
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