Example sentences of "[verb] with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 2 | So he lives with a lurking fear of exposure as a fraud . |
| 3 | Onto one line I tie a size 2 , straight-eyed , forged hook , which has been carefully honed with a fine carborundum stone to razor sharpness , and the barb reduced to a bare minimum so as not to impeded penetration but still retain a degree of holding power . |
| 4 | We urgently need a promotional video — one of the most effective tools to communicate with a wide audience — which we can show to groups and visitors within RBG ; send out on loan to groups , schools and other organisations , and use as a vehicle to promote ourselves to potential sponsors and supporters . |
| 5 | This may be the case literally when a French speaker has to communicate with a non-French speaker but , even within a common language , usage varies enormously . |
| 6 | Radio in Zambia broadcast not only in English but also in seven Zambian languages ; therefore , unlike television and most newspapers , it was able to communicate with a large proportion of the people in their own language or at least in one they could understand . |
| 7 | The overall atmosphere is one of unrelenting power , mixed with a critical commentary . |
| 8 | While both painters , and Picasso in particular , led active social lives and mixed with a wide circle of literary and artistic figures , their friendship seems to have rendered them self-sufficient . |
| 9 | This time he certainly saw blank incomprehension mixed with a liberal dollop of incredulity . |
| 10 | When an amorphous polymer is mixed with a suitable solvent , it disperses in the solvent and behaves as though it too is a liquid . |
| 11 | All of these had to be mixed with a suitable quota of pretty and elegant women to form some sort of homogeneous gathering , so that the guests would , after a fashion , entertain themselves as well as be entertained . |
| 12 | In order to measure the effects of water transport more precisely , Korth ( 1979 ) simulated stream action by artificial attrition in a rotary tumbler , mixed with a fine quartz matrix ( grain size 2–4 mm in diameter ) and water , for a total of 80 hours . |
| 13 | The most noticeable aspect of Therapy ? now — as opposed to a year ago — is that the anger and tension of their sound is mixed with a fresh waft of cool and poise onstage . |
| 14 | A plate of spaghetti mixed with a fried courgette and some fried mushrooms , covered with a packet cheese sauce takes only fifteen minutes to prepare . |
| 15 | The exhaust gas is mixed with a little air from a small pump at a point just before it enters the canister . |
| 16 | which is scraped off and used as so called paint for the pottery , mixed with a little light |
| 17 | She felt a powerful urge to murder , mixed with a delicious glow . |
| 18 | The paste contains collagen suspended in a salt solution mixed with a local anaesthetic , lignocaine . |
| 19 | Put all the cake ingredients except the chocolate liqueur in a mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or with a food mixer until light and fluffy . |
| 20 | The Fire Ghost simply bursts into flames , its spectral body surrounded with a huge halo of dancing fire . |
| 21 | Eventually we came upon an empty railway shed with a paved road and a line of street lamps along one side . |
| 22 | Elite theorists argue more generally than pluralists that where elites can not act with a considerable degree of autonomy in deeply divided societies , centrifugal tendencies are much more likely than centripetal ones ( Nordlinger , 1972 ) . |
| 23 | State agencies do act with a considerable degree of autonomy , and take limited account of their interaction with other branches of the government . |
| 24 | However much the family cling to their culture and security , the younger generation at work and school are grappling with a different set of realities ; the wisdom of the older family member may be less acceptable . |
| 25 | The Debut was designed with a real sense of purpose . |
| 26 | The difficulty with standard significance tests is that their valid and effective use usually depends on the way the data are approached — for example whether the research has been designed with a specific hypothesis in mind or a less focused post hoc analysis is being carried out with a view to revealing underlying patterns . |
| 27 | First generation computers were designed with a fixed instruction set and store size , and with a fixed complement of transput devices . |
| 28 | These medicated , double action cleansing pads have been designed with a rough side to clear away dead skin cells and unblock pores plus a smooth side to clean and remove oil and dirt . |
| 29 | The Plaque Remover has been designed with a special brushing time indicator which flashes when two minutes are up . |
| 30 | And that 's a throwen chair of around about fourteen fifty , designed with a short seat so that you lean forward and it 's a writing chair basically . |