Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We send you in to do battle with the enemy , and what happens ? |
| 2 | Around 25,000 British servicemen were sent in to do battle with the Argentinians . |
| 3 | This system of local government had much fine work to its credit but it was generally accepted that its structure had not changed enough to keep pace with the changing social pattern of travel to work , shopping and holiday areas . |
| 4 | The provision of statutory services to the elderly has risen since 1948 , but not sufficiently to keep pace with the increasing number of dependants and the decreasing pool of informal carers ( even now only 11 per cent of people aged 85 and over receive meals-on-wheels , 37 per cent a home help ; OPCS , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | The girl shouted abuse after him , then picked up her baby for comfort , and settled down to watch telly with the remains of a bag of cheese and onion crisps . |
| 6 | He hoped Mr Souness would be well enough to resume training with the Liverpool squad in July . |
| 7 | A man of a few carefully-placed words , not to lose contact with the external world . |
| 8 | But the reason I 'm here is just to express solidarity with the campaign that you 're continuing . |
| 9 | Yet it is important not to confuse attentiveness with the kind of frowning application traditional academic work has often encouraged . |
| 10 | Silence quickly overtook him as memory tried just to keep pace with the tumbling images . |
| 11 | His easy manner bordered on the avuncular , but Charles was wise enough not to take offence with the experienced NCOs , particularly this one under whom he 'd served while in the ranks such a short while before . |
| 12 | The latter was accused of treason on account of a letter he had sent to Euric , advising him not to make peace with the Greek emperor , that is Anthemius , but rather to attack the Britons who were stationed on the Loire , and to divide Gaul with the Burgundians . |
| 13 | It 's my day off , so I 'm going home to help Mother with the housework . |
| 14 | Thankfully he landed on it for a moment , moving his body back and forth to keep balance with the stress of the wind and peering about him . |
| 15 | But the jungle lodges should do more to make contact with the local communities , to tell them what they are doing . |
| 16 | In practice , the registrars are often supplied with a draft of the affidavit in advance not only to ensure that they are happy with its contents but also to ensure compliance with the necessary procedures . |
| 17 | The person who is terrified of storms , while restraining him or herself from hiding in the hall cupboard , will still give off an aura of anxiety to a child who will then come automatically to associate fear with the sound of thunder . |
| 18 | â He shouted to me as he was going out to play cricket with the other boys . |
| 19 | But Dublin was long ago and far away ; the city she had known had changed irrevocably on that Easter Monday three years ago when a handful of men , including her husband Dermot , had walked out to do battle with the might of the British Empire . |
| 20 | He then formulated a system of fighting derived from the mantis ' movements and went back to do battle with the fighters from other systems . |
| 21 | Only drawback to the scene is that it is obvious the Allisons are throttled back to keep pace with the Tâ6s and the helicopter cameraship . |
| 22 | Objective Teams or Solo flyers will endeavour to cause other Rokkaku kites being flown simultaneously to make contact with the ground . |
| 23 | The great question I was always asked was , â Are you here to do art with the patients ? |
| 24 | FULHAM 'S controversial chief executive Brian Naismith , we hear , may be about to part company with the club . |
| 25 | In each of these cases my method will be to discuss the effects the phenomenon has upon public liability companies , then to make comparison with the other forms in which we are interested . |
| 26 | Although Ashworth 's suggestion has been backed by a broad coalition of penal reform groups , and also by the Labour Party ( 1990 ) , it has yet to find favour with the judiciary , and was explicitly rejected by the government ( Home Office , 1990a : para. 2.20 ) . |
| 27 | Since 1990 , when France lifted all exchange controls , and especially since the opening of the Single European market on 1 January , it has become easier to do business with the French . |
| 28 | The hon. Gentleman well knows that there has been a dramatic increase in national health service spending on any measure one cares to take , far and above the amount necessary either to keep pace with the general level of inflation or to keep pace with the level of inflation in medical costs . |
| 29 | Man-made fibres were first developed to imitate natural ones , and ultimately to keep pace with the growing demand for fabrics , as it is not possible to produce enough from natural sources alone . |
| 30 | William Bayles Hauxwell fought mightily to keep pace with the ceaseless tide of farmwork at a time when mechanization and all the labour-saving devices now taken for granted in agriculture were but a distant dream in Baldersdale . |