Example sentences of "[verb] at [noun] with the " in BNC.

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1 If anything stands at variance with the evidence , it is this system of beliefs .
2 In contrast , some sort of appeal to , say , the authority of the government executive ( although in practice often the implicit outcome ) looks at odds with the individualistic framework of neoclassical economics .
3 To suggest that Jesus may actually have been King of the Jews , is not , therefore , to stand at variance with the evidence .
4 But over and above other factors such as the growing disenchantment , after long experience , with the Auld Alliance , and the beginning of awareness that living at peace with the English might be better than suffering the massive destruction inflicted during the Rough Wooing , there was one compelling new element : Protestantism .
5 Now he was looking at Toby with the pleading grin of the schoolboy planning a jape , and Toby , who was near enough to that stage to want to put it firmly behind him , would have loved to refuse .
6 In this chapter we have , through our time travelling , been outside of our own world for some time now , so perhaps we are now looking at modernity with the eyes of a stranger coming home .
7 North Norfolk 's No. 3809 arrives at Sheringham with the 11.35 from Holt on May 25 .
8 Does it rankle and jar or do we feel at home with the sound ?
9 He will never feel at ease with the French : he will never wear the right clothes ; he will never feel healthy on goose and red wine and he no longer wants to try .
10 Kimberly Clark negotiated at length with the council and the Department of Trade and Industry before opting to set up in Humberside .
11 Such a concept seemed at odds with the progressive and ameliorative spirit of the age .
12 The English Copernican John Wilkins also found it necessary to revise concepts of biblical authority in order to make room for scientific propositions that seemed at odds with the plain meaning of Scripture .
13 The microphone and the evangelical enthusiasm seemed at odds with the orthodox robes and the white beard .
14 In the transcendent world , there are new laws and men must discard their habitual ideas of what is right and what is wrong ; in fact to see the utmost beauty we must look at things with the eyes of a child .
15 we can look at involvement with the organizations .
16 After lunch one day we went for a walk in the nearby woods , my mother remaining at home with the two younger children and the rest of us accompanying my father and my aunt .
17 Helped at home with the spring cleaning ?
18 The London Daily Telegraph of 25 August 1887 , under the heading " A Sailors ' Association " chose to deal at length with the birth of the union , praising its objects , but predicting its early demise : " The North Country " , the article read , " was always the nursery of the famous and best seamen and it is here that we find Jack hard at work originating a fine scheme .
19 I 'm a 27 year old male on kidney dialysis and am looking for a computer to use at home with the long-term objective of working in computer programming .
20 Why would the inclusion of money deposited at call with the discount houses in any of the definitions be a case of ‘ double counting ?
21 While mundane scientists poke and prod at nature with the tools of experiment , astronomers on their mountains simply observe her , in all her heavenly glory .
22 The trains pass at Ropley with the Alresford return service working wrong line through the station .
23 Having dealt at length with the management and , to a limited extent , with the financing of public sector higher education , we shall now consider in more detail the ‘ pooling ’ arrangements that have obtained in recent years and the likely criteria upon which NAB 's financial decisions will be based .
24 Having dealt at length with the management and funding of the institutions providing higher education in the public sector , we shall now turn to an examination of the validation arrangements which appertain to their courses .
25 His eyes were hard now , glaring at d'Aubigny with the occasional sideways knowing glance at the sulky Angus .
26 My view about the Matsushita response is simply that the Japanese higher education system generally requires knowledge of English , which seems at odds with the Technics explanation .
27 Informalisation or permissiveness is seen as involving increasingly less regulation and less formality over rules of conduct , a relaxation in standards that seems at odds with the civilising movement identified by Elias .
28 The rhetoric of most Third World governments and radical researchers on the damage done by FDI in general and specific TNCs in particular , seems at odds with the almost universal scramble of these same Third World governments advised by ( in some cases ) the same radical researchers to create policies to attract more and more FDI into their countries .
29 In 1928 an Indian graduate student , Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , set sail for England to study at Cambridge with the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington , an expert on general relativity .
30 The procedure followed at Stowupland with the twelve-furrow work was similar to that already described for the ten-furrow : the head horseman , or first baiter , laid the top and the other horsemen followed him , each ploughing a round at least on a stetch .
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