Example sentences of "[noun pl] with a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He gambolled over the four fences on the run towards the turn for home on the first circuit , and made towards the stands with a commanding lead .
2 Side One is pure philosophy from ‘ Natural Mystic ’ to the complex title track , through ‘ Guiltiness ’ and ‘ The Heathen ’ , militant songs with a powerful drop .
3 ALL THE way from Kansas City , Joseph Vernon Tucker was banging out loud , dirty and jumping blues songs with a southern flavour before the war .
4 Chris Allison believes Gedge 's forte is his knack of writing strong songs with a commercial edge .
5 The rents seem low , but when one considers that Mayhew 's seller of songs with a dependent wife earned less than 10s. a week and sometimes less than 5s. , it is easy to see why he might cling to his far from model room , where he has his own ‘ bits and sticks ’ , even at an exorbitant rent of 2s. 3d .
6 Hence Zande and other peoples with a similar witchcraft philosophy invoke the notion of witchcraft to explain why particular abnormal events occur to specific individuals .
7 This distance may therefore result , inter alia , in above average transport costs , restricted access to large urban conglomerations with a concomitant reduction in the capacity to develop service activities and an inferior transport infrastructure .
8 Design Standards for this section will be similar to those for the Colinton Section consisting of dual two-lane carriageways with a central reservation and verges at the shoulders .
9 The mood of that enquiry was romantically scientific , so to speak , impelled by a search for technicality based on a confident assumption that science had provided the arts with a lasting model of analytical objectivity .
10 However , a recent interesting development has been the introduction of multi-disciplinary courses such as that offered by the London College of Printing in Media and Production Design and by North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the history of design and visual arts with a chief study in ceramics .
11 But had the minister read the introduction to that paper he would have found the following : ‘ The metabolism and excretion of compounds with a prolonged half-life , however , may be slower in old age as a result of impaired renal function commonly seen in this age group .
12 Clozapine was first synthesized in 1958 as one of over 1900 tricyclic compounds with a structural similarity to imipramine .
13 The enthalpy of hydration for sodium chloride is the sum of the individual hydration enthalpies of the sodium and chloride ions : The hydration enthalpies of individual ions can be estimated by comparing the hydration enthalpies of a range of ionic compounds with a common ion .
14 He gazed round the sitting room at the long wall of books , the crackling wood fire , the oil of the Victorian prelate above the mantelshelf as if deliberately impressing each item on his mind , then sank into his chair and stretched out his long legs with a small grunt of satisfaction .
15 He started to play one and a look of pain flickered across Blanche 's face as if someone was trying to shave her legs with a blunt razor .
16 The first essential movement is forward motion , for this close both legs with a light vibration , straighten the body upwards and lighten the reins slightly .
17 He was small and elegant : tapering legs with a white band on his left knee .
18 Secondly , the imprint of the First World War , with its wholesale destruction and loss of life , stamped the survivors with a strong conviction that such a war must never happen again .
19 Sutton-born Geoff Chilvers had been with the Palace as a Junior in the early days of the 2nd World War and had appeared at Selhurst Park in an interesting schoolboy game that was used as an experiment with numbered players , but his extraordinary claim to footballing fame , which will delight fans with a statistical quirk in their nature , is that he made his debut with a League club as a 16-year-old in a match where his side scored double figures .
20 Lengthen and thicken hairs with a lash-building formula
21 Hence the course 's educational philosophy which is based on students ' needs , experiential and facilitative in teaching methods with a strong emphasis on developing autonomy , self-reliance and self- confidence towards professional competence .
22 The new UMA universal illuminator allows rapid changeover between brightfield , darkfield , Nomarski Differential Interference Contrast , and reflected light fluorescence observation methods with a single set of optics , minimising the risk of contamination .
23 Multiple nodules with a maximum diameter of 1 mm were seem on macroscopical examination on the surface of two of 10 pancreas sections in the fundectomy group , and on four of 13 pancreatic sections in the PBD group .
24 Nodules with a maximum diameter of 3 mm were seen on three of the 13 pancreatic sections in the PBD group only No nodules were seen in the sham operated animals .
25 A balance is therefore established between what we are losing and what we are gaining , and this balance enables us to view our losses with a reasonable degree of calmness .
26 At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies .
27 Highgate Cemetery displays crossed bats with a broken wicket , as well as a stone piano with a few bars of one of Puccini 's operas .
28 Alan ‘ Fluff ’ Freeman said : ‘ It was quite good but it could never be the same — we were like kids with a new toy . ’
29 ‘ Aqua Fortis ’ intros with a gentle lapping of waves before thickening into a pulsing yet controlled hypno-technological dream and is supported by the scary ‘ Asylum 3 ’ , which involves a story about some magic toys and sets up the rest of the track for a chilling rollercoaster ride into a spooky world that you really do n't want to enter .
30 Books about childhood appear on every level , from those in which specialist communicates only with specialist , through all types of handbook for readers with a vocational interest in children , to those in which the expert and the less expert , with equal show of authority , make parents the target of their beliefs ( substantiated or not ) on how children ‘ should ’ be brought up .
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