Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 2 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 3 | Flea beetle riddles leaves with tiny holes ; treat with derris only if damage is serious . |
| 4 | Pipedreams bursts with stirring sounds we probably have no right to expect from the instrument . |
| 5 | Mr Boesky 's return to his old haunts comes with four months of his sentence still to run . |
| 6 | In the Neolithic period , totalitarian states emerged as a result of the reappearance of profound inequalities made possible by the acquisition of agricultural surpluses , whereas in the modern epoch most of the comparable states emerged out of periods of revolution and upheaval constituted mainly by a struggle for equality — a fact that has had the odd consequence of leaving all modern police states with official ideologies strongly committed to a non-existent freedom and egalitarianism for their citizens . |
| 7 | Earl St. Vincent , for example , writing in 1801 , remarked that ‘ the list of lieutenants abounds with improper persons who have obtained promotions by influence ’ . |
| 8 | This discrepancy in results coincides with methodological differences between the two groups of studies . |
| 9 | When the Council of Energy Ministers meets with those proposals before it , Opposition Members and the British coal industry would like to know what attitude Britain 's representatives will adopt . |
| 10 | For instance , Stravinsky 's Symphonies of Wind Instruments ends with nine bars based on the chord progressions E minor , D minor , and C major , but by adding foreign diatonic notes to each chord he forms small clusters which obscure the harmony and give it a mysterious fascination . |
| 11 | These were the writers and newspapermen , paid hacks of the propaganda machine and tools of ‘ Anastasie ’ , the censor , who from their comfortable offices in Paris wrote of the nobility of war in the terms of Déroulède ; of the brave boys dying beautifully pour la Patrie ; who described the piling up of ‘ mounds of German dead ’ at each attack at Verdun , to the accompaniment of ‘ negligible ’ French losses ; and who published photographs of the grands mutilés with such captions as ‘ A Soldier Who Has Lost Both Feet , Yet Walks Fairly Well With Clever Substitutes , ’ or ‘ Who Has Lost Both Hands , Yet Can Handle a Cigarette and Salute as Before . ’ |