Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adj] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " But first , ladies and gentlemen , you should know that Dr McNab holds the discredited belief that you catch cholera by drinking … more precisely , that in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal causing diarrhoea , that the poison is at the same time reproduced in the intestines and passes out with the discharges , and that by these so-called " rice-water " discharges becoming mingled with the drinking water of others the disease is communicated from one person to another continually multiplying itself as it goes . |
| 2 | And while some parents complain to the head teacher about their children becoming involved with the RUC , at least one headmistress was reported as being committed to the community relations programme , telling parents that she was responsible for their education and that they could move their child if they objected to the way this was done ( FN 10/2/87 , p. 7 ) . |
| 3 | And what chance will peace have if the enraged victims see the criminals escaping scot-free with the spoils of their crimes ? |
| 4 | My recollections of Barcelona are a jumble of hooting cars and waving flags , whining bombs and derelict buildings , food queues and rats and ragged clothes and my hands going blue with the cold of the last winter we spent there . |
| 5 | In time , it was to take only three minutes from " alarm " to " all ill " — an impressive performance , especially with numbers exceeding 400 with the arrival of " refugees " from William Hulme 's Grammar School and the Manchester Grammar School . |
| 6 | Before going on to look at the Government 's proposals in detail , we want to underline our serious concern over the threat to strategic minerals planning associated with the proposed reorganisation of local government in Wales . |