Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The negotiations on British entry became fused with a wider debate in 1960–3 about the future of the Community . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly these measures have been controversial , and a central-local battle has developed with a strong party political character . |
| 3 | In the sleeper compartment of a train speeding through the night a youth crouches over a naked woman he has drugged with a hypodermic syringe . |
| 4 | Joe Brolly has come with a late run into the Derry side |
| 5 | The handsome ground rent taken for temporarily housing the national side has come with a built-in penalty clause , too , it would seem . |
| 6 | As Kohl ( 1988 ) has reported with a dazzling photographic portrait ( by William Thompson and Galen Rowell ) the fuelwood crisis , which is endemic to the region , is being aggravated by the fuelwood requirements of tourists . |
| 7 | Following the completion of an eight-month programme of renovations and improvements , Geneva 's Centre d'art contemporain has reopened with a new entrance and stairwell , a lecture theatre , a ‘ Projects ’ room to be used by younger Swiss artists , a workshop for children and two new exhibitions : an installation of 2400 sheets from Allan McCollum 's ‘ Drawings ’ series ( to 12 September ) and drawings and photographs by Dutch artist , Pieter Laurens Moll ( to 16 May ) . |
| 8 | In many cases where a request has been made , it has met with a flat refusal . |
| 9 | I am afraid it has met with a cool response from our colleagues , and in view of this , I am sorry to say that we will not be taking up your offer to publish . |
| 10 | The Citywatch project — which its organisers say must have private as well as public cash — has met with a mixed response from the city 's business community . |
| 11 | Generally speaking , however , family planning has met with a hostile reception . |
| 12 | In your shoes I 'd have expected him to come prepared with a big stick . ’ |
| 13 | Coventry , who have not won in the three matches Regis has missed with a calf-muscle injury , trail 3-1 from the first leg , but Drinkell was optimistic , saying : ‘ It 's not irretrievable . |
| 14 | The best she can do is to try to secure it by non-military , legal means , and this she has done with a fair measure of success . |
| 15 | Having come prepared with a warm coat , mackintosh , and umbrella , I braved the elements , and sat on the open stand to watch this enjoyable match , as did quite a few others . |
| 16 | But he said Cardow ‘ had come armed with a lethal weapon and used it to penetrate the deceased 's body nine times . ’ |
| 17 | She has dealt with a dead passenger in Poland ( his widow carried on regardless ) , outbreaks of war in India , and breaking her own leg falling out of a rickshaw in Nepal . |
| 18 | Crocuses are plants that nature has provided with a biological thermometer . |
| 19 | In the first instance , the Centre has worked with a small number of course leaders , helping to identify , through its own contacts , appropriate live projects . |
| 20 | Over the years , says Ash , he has worked with a great number of PhD students , all of them very able , some outstandingly so . |
| 21 | The company has worked with a local college to help employees with basic English and mathematics skills . |
| 22 | This has combined with a poor record on coalition building and activist management , a public perception of lesbian and gay politics as party political and a preserve of the Left , and a high level of internalised oppression expressed as apathy . |
| 23 | I know someone who earns his living by repairing boards and he always does most business on the days after a strong onshore wind has combined with a high tide . |
| 24 | Even when the miraculous promise of steadily falling costs has faltered at the point of delivery , a further cast-iron prediction has been installed , and the search for the nuclear philosophers ' stone has continued with a renewed and fiery zeal . |
| 25 | Commentary : The common size statements merely confirm what we have already suggested above from our initial analysis , i.e. the gross profit has declined with a marked decline in 1988 and this has been accompanied by an increase in interest over the last years . |
| 26 | An attack of scab can lead to fruits becoming covered with a cracked , corky layer , accompanied by lesions in the leaves . |
| 27 | The arrival of his new spouse , Madeleine Gurdon has coincided with a snazzy re-vamp for Andrew Lloyd Webber 's clothes . |
| 28 | The reduction in base rates from 15% to 10% appears to have done relatively little for supply growth , since it has coincided with a gradual downgrading of recovery prospects by most analysts . |
| 29 | An armed robbery has ended with a high speed police chase on one of the region 's motorways.Police marksmen were among officers from four police forces involved in the incident which began after a shooting in South Wales . |
| 30 | A military operation involving four thousand servicemen has ended with a dramatic finale over Salisbury Plain . |