Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you have opened your Premier Savings account with a minimum of £5000 , you can add any amount to your savings at any time . |
| 2 | All prices for cushions are inclusive of the feather pad and VAT and start from £7.95 for a cotton , contrast piped , 16″ × 16″ cushion with a choice of 30 colours ! |
| 3 | A look that could only be jealousy , she registered , made his coal-black eyes glint with a hint of danger . |
| 4 | He had looked directly into her face for the first time and she saw his dark eyes blaze with a mixture of anger and pain . |
| 5 | The court can not exercise its powers to make a specific issue or prohibited steps order with a view to achieving a result which could be achieved by a residence or contact order ( s9(5) ( a ) ) . |
| 6 | Eyes glitter with a memory of the chill snowfields that once claimed her . |
| 7 | Not all meteorites arrive with a whoosh and a bang . |
| 8 | Gloria wiped the tongs clean with a scrap of paper , twirling them in a circle until they had cooled slightly , then she coiled a strand of Ruth 's hair round the tongs and when it was tightly curled , fixed it in place with two hairpins . |
| 9 | Articles start with a heading of 50–80 words written to advertise their content in general terms , to which editors will pay particular attention . |
| 10 | Across the stream , tumbling fast on its way to Glyme and Evenlode , one sees a wide sedgy hollow planted with willow saplings , from which flocks of goldfinches rise with a flash of wings on sunny mornings . |
| 11 | HUNDREDS of women peace protesters plan to paralyse a top nuclear weapons base with a blockade . |
| 12 | Alan Gowling , for example , gained a Master 's degree before pursuing his professional sports career with a variety of football league clubs . |
| 13 | Susan Brookes ' New World travels end with a trip down Mexico way |
| 14 | Whereas non-infected individuals respond with largely type-specific responses , infected individuals respond with a profile distinctly different from the normal individual . |
| 15 | Days start with a morning chat , and most windsurfing takes place in the large bay . |
| 16 | Their writings engage with a spectrum of the cultural and theological traditions of medieval Europe . |
| 17 | The thing actually works as a SCSI device , but because so few PCs come with a SCSI port most people use the built-in SCSI-to-parallel converter . |
| 18 | When any of its provisions conflict with a provision of the ordinary law , it prevails and the ordinary law must give way . ’ |
| 19 | The figures compare with a total of 448 incidents in the previous year . |
| 20 | Again given that these conditions deal with a business sale , these exclusions are likely to pass the test of reasonableness imposed in such cases by s 6 of the UCTA . |
| 21 | The American lark bunting has a similar breeding system , but males mate with a maximum of two females . |
| 22 | The males respond with a drumming four times as fast . |
| 23 | The wines come with a corkscrew/knife and are presented in a pine display box . |
| 24 | This may sound a bit obvious , but some machines come with a turbo button which can slow the PC right down . |
| 25 | This has urged Bosch to make its debut in the security products market with a range of sensor-controlled security lights , movement detectors , and mini alarms . |
| 26 | Christ knows how the rules deal with a team who play 5 at the back . |
| 27 | At night , the presses do not stop until the small hours , so the restaurant stays open with a cook , a general assistant and a catering student . |
| 28 | The other significant problem that is currently dogging the presentation graphics market is that film recorders come with a paucity of typefaces . |
| 29 | Thus most sentences begin with a reference , actual or implied , to the first-person narrator : " On my right hand … " ( 1 ) , " To the left … " ( 2 ) , " And when I turned my h.a … ( 3 ) , " My eye followed … " ( 6 ) , " And then I was left alone … " ( 7 ) . |
| 30 | The preference measures the degree to which females mate with a quadrimaculata male when given a choice between quadrimaculata and typica ; if the preference were zero , mating would be random , if one , all mating would be with quadrimaculata . |