Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally , the approach in this initiative is based on the conviction that the primary and most basic interface between the individual and the social world is to be found in the day to day transactions he or she has with other individuals . |
| 2 | She traces the roots back in time ; she covers some of the more obvious ground ( with chapters on Happy Mondays , the Stone Roses etc ) ; she rights some wrongs ; she flirts with some myths ; she gives a platform to some of the previously unsung instigators ; she dumps a few reputations ; and , though imperfect , it 's as reliable a guide to current Manchester music as you are likely to get . |
| 3 | Mostly she deals with moral issues , though some are topical or ‘ tongue in cheek ’ . |
| 4 | She perceives with awake senses . |
| 5 | She works with Scottish companies , promoting HCIMA membership , management development and the accreditation of in-company courses . |
| 6 | This tendency she shares with other women in the middle-class group ; the middle-class rate of personality descriptions is twice that of the working-class group . |
| 7 | But a Washington court could stop the launch today , if it agrees with anti-nuclear activists that the space probe 's plutonium generators are unsafe , writes Mark Champion . |
| 8 | It plays with such ideas , to a Shavian pitch of exaggeration : but it is not a novel of ideas , any more than it is a heartless game . |
| 9 | Bored as he waits for the liquid to boil , eyed admiringly by his pint-sized partner , he plays with wooden spills , dipping them into the solution and passing them through the flame beneath . |
| 10 | As we shall see , a gene may increase in frequency not because it increases the fitness of its carrier but because it associates with other genes that do , or even because it is in a sense parasitic on other genes . |
| 11 | If you want the earth to move for you , it 's best that it starts with small tremors and works its way slowly up the Richter . |
| 12 | Let's say it starts of with just to make it a bit easier for you so it does n't come like this let's say it starts with fifteen engines on , and what 's its weight with fifteen engines on ? |
| 13 | First , it interacts with other variables of interest to sociolinguists ; and second , it illustrates in a particularly acute form the ill-defined character of speaker variables in comparison with linguistic variables . |
| 14 | In fact , sexual difference theory is informed by , and responsive to , more than that ; it intersects with other notions central to the psychoanalytic project . |
| 15 | He fumbles with two sticks |
| 16 | But he keeps on spending as much as before , topping up his spending account with cash from the piggy-bank , which he replaces with little bits of paper saying that the spending account owes the piggy-bank money . |
| 17 | Taylor and Walton note that sabotage can be difficult to define : at one end it merges with informal practices which become almost part of normal procedure , ‘ neither openly demanded nor openly questioned ’ , while in extreme cases sabotage may be identified with explicitly political violence . |
| 18 | It is a seeking rather than a finding , and it ends with few certitudes . |
| 19 | this this arch this this architect because this bloke is particularly interested in it and he deals with historic buildings and things like that . |
| 20 | In some of the cases he deals with these interests supplement one another ; but they nevertheless remain distinct . |
| 21 | Land acquisition , site assembly , land reclamation , infrastructural improvement and environmental enhancement are the means through which it engages with local authorities , the Department of Environment and most importantly , the private sector to lever investment that will lead to economic growth . |
| 22 | It deals with all aspects of commercial and domestic security , including intruder alarms , closed circuit television systems , locks and safes . |
| 23 | Shot in Britain , Ethiopia , Israel and Saudi Arabia , it deals with major issues facing the world 's religions . |
| 24 | Such a model is of interest to geographers since it deals with man-environment relationships . |
| 25 | In the first place , it deals with those elements in human nature which are timeless . |
| 26 | Although the network approach does answer some of the problems of the hierarchical approach , particularly in that it deals with many-to-many relationships , it is more complex . |
| 27 | many people see it [ the employment of women ] as a challenge to society , because it breaks with long-established patterns of family life , and with the values and beliefs supporting them … |
| 28 | Also , operators at the surface can reel in the drill like a fishing line , and replace the bit in one tenth the time it takes with conventional systems . |
| 29 | Significantly , it opens with two photographs of the newly refurbished library in summer 1983 , complete with carpets and handsome modern furniture . |
| 30 | Mr Watkins can say that he sympathises with green views on the need for conservation but has been overruled by the troika that presides over George Bush 's domestic policy : John Sununu , the chief of staff , Richard Darman , the budget director , and Michael Boskin , the chief economic adviser . |