Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the star of the show is the mock-up of a banquet complete with the extraordinary salt cellars he commissioned from the Regency silversmith Paul Storr — a crab and winkle here , a triton or braying donkey there , all of gold . |
| 2 | But too many of them have been weaned on the habit of chopping up the New Testament into bits ( sorting out the sources , contemporary themes and ideologies of Aramaic Palestine or the Hellenistic world ) so that they can no longer see the scriptures as a sacred text aflame with the divine drama . |
| 3 | The ‘ big nine ’ sought to regain some of the major services they had lost to the counties , but were not the only districts dissatisfied with the present position . |
| 4 | There was John Lydon , rechristened Johnny Rotten , a hunched Irish boy with a complexion like used tissue paper , a vituperative turn of phrase and a sneer made in heaven ; and Steve Jones and Paul Cook , two likely lads rich with the authentic aroma of the Job Centre and remand home . |
| 5 | Witness this peroration : ‘ Evidently Freya Stark is aimed at a readership unfamiliar with the Stark oeuvre and Mrs Izzard reckoned she could get away with any number of unjust distortions . |
| 6 | The two oral papillae contiguous with the infradental papillae . |
| 7 | Director Oliver Stone , joined in the screenplay by Zachary Sklar , used two books involved with the official investigation as the basis for his narrative . |
| 8 | He was the principal architect of the paper 's style and the only journalist involved with the original Founders . |
| 9 | Thus Chapter 9 is about what policies , both local and national , will be necessary as components of a structural programme concerned with the effective redistribution of resources and power and with the transformation of the existing social order through a process of cultural revolution . |
| 10 | Long before , when he was in perfect health , we had watched a television programme concerned with the high cost of dying and had sent for the accompanying booklet , entitled , appropriately , It 's a R.I.P. Off . |
| 11 | A practical lexicographer , however , would probably draw his line in a different place from ours : he might well argue that phrases such as fish and chips , bread and butter , etc. , while undoubtedly slightly opaque in the technical sense , present few problems of interpretation to speakers familiar with the normal constituent meanings of the parts , and are thus not worth listing . |
| 12 | If the law of an overseas country applies , however , you would be wise to consult a lawyer familiar with the legal system of that country . |
| 13 | Is my right hon. and learned Friend familiar with the automatic warning system of the Great Western railway , which has kept this tunnel and hundreds of miles of railway line safe for years ? |
| 14 | It was the former Home Secretary who first noticed the deck chair , its legs awash with the incoming tide , part-hidden by the Victorian metal-work of the pier . |
| 15 | In the A sections , the tune is more subtly transformed : the basic melodic shapes are still there , for listeners familiar with the original , but they are ‘ glossed ’ , ‘ paraphrased ’ , by changing a few notes here , a few notes there ; the repetitions of the original all but disappear . |
| 16 | Gina gazed down at the map unseeingly , her mind preoccupied with the unhappy little scene in her own living-room . |
| 17 | On the one hand the cost of money capital could be reduced , by offering funds for projects consistent with the overall investment plan at low interest rates , and on the other the level of aggregate demand could be boosted by the public sector projects . |
| 18 | When Mary arrived in Scotland complete with the second dowry , James set about transforming a number of his favourite residences . |
| 19 | Parents bored with the endless repetition of nursery rhymes should pause to consider that this monotonous activity may be giving their children a head start in their education . |
| 20 | In order to be as free as possible , that my will have the greatest possible range consistent with the similar will of others , it is necessary that there be a way in which I may commit myself … . |
| 21 | And filmmakers like Brunel , Asquith and Powell worried about the loss of camera mobility and editing flexibility inevitable with the early sound technology . |
| 22 | The US regional telephone companies involved with the National ISDN project are to make more Integrated Services Digital Network lines available than had been previously forecast . |
| 23 | Yesterday 's sentences marked the end of the first of what will be a series of trials concerned with the 25-day disturbance . |
| 24 | Obligations concerned with the day-to-day upkeep of leasehold property have also been placed upon tenants , although this implied covenant " to act in a tenant-like manner " , does not amount to a requirement to make repairs . |
| 25 | for the value as science indicators for policy studies concerned with monitoring the nature and direction of advances in scientific research ; particularly for corporate planners concerned with the strategic implications of such changes for industrial R&D . |
| 26 | Now the point about this measure is how will the Secretary of State for home affairs , respond to this proposal because this is a re-run , this ten minute ruled bill , of the bill that I introduced last year under the private members bill procedure in which the er junior minister that is currently at the despatch box , said that he accepted the principals of seeking to achieve full registration but felt that the measure itself was premature , premature in that the Home Office were investigating er numbers and matters concerned with the electoral registration and electoral provision , arising from experience at the last general election but I think it was beginning to be accepted that the poll tax had had a serious impact upon the electoral register although there were many other er elements that provided great difficulty . |
| 27 | The self-government of the knežina was limited to internal matters concerned with the Serbian peasantry . |
| 28 | Writing to the Corinthians who thought sex in marriage incompatible with the spiritual life , the apostle had insisted that marriage and procreation are no sin , while conceding to his opponents that , though good , marriage is not as good as celibacy . |
| 29 | But with a , it 's just that er if you have er in the wrong place it 'll look a bit untidy with the other things coming up when the bulbs are dying down . |
| 30 | What comes to the fore through Gandhi 's strictures on the attitudes and methods of certain Christian missionaries is that it is possible for religious zeal and enthusiasm to lead to activities inconsistent with the religious and ethical ideals or values one might be seeking to promote . |