Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the star of the show is the mock-up of a banquet complete with the extraordinary salt cellars he commissioned from the Regency silversmith Paul Storr — a crab and winkle here , a triton or braying donkey there , all of gold . |
| 2 | But too many of them have been weaned on the habit of chopping up the New Testament into bits ( sorting out the sources , contemporary themes and ideologies of Aramaic Palestine or the Hellenistic world ) so that they can no longer see the scriptures as a sacred text aflame with the divine drama . |
| 3 | Witness this peroration : ‘ Evidently Freya Stark is aimed at a readership unfamiliar with the Stark oeuvre and Mrs Izzard reckoned she could get away with any number of unjust distortions . |
| 4 | He was the principal architect of the paper 's style and the only journalist involved with the original Founders . |
| 5 | Thus Chapter 9 is about what policies , both local and national , will be necessary as components of a structural programme concerned with the effective redistribution of resources and power and with the transformation of the existing social order through a process of cultural revolution . |
| 6 | Long before , when he was in perfect health , we had watched a television programme concerned with the high cost of dying and had sent for the accompanying booklet , entitled , appropriately , It 's a R.I.P. Off . |
| 7 | If the law of an overseas country applies , however , you would be wise to consult a lawyer familiar with the legal system of that country . |
| 8 | Gina gazed down at the map unseeingly , her mind preoccupied with the unhappy little scene in her own living-room . |
| 9 | In order to be as free as possible , that my will have the greatest possible range consistent with the similar will of others , it is necessary that there be a way in which I may commit myself … . |
| 10 | And filmmakers like Brunel , Asquith and Powell worried about the loss of camera mobility and editing flexibility inevitable with the early sound technology . |
| 11 | Writing to the Corinthians who thought sex in marriage incompatible with the spiritual life , the apostle had insisted that marriage and procreation are no sin , while conceding to his opponents that , though good , marriage is not as good as celibacy . |
| 12 | But with a , it 's just that er if you have er in the wrong place it 'll look a bit untidy with the other things coming up when the bulbs are dying down . |
| 13 | Another further piece in the puzzle was the presence of a Training In Evangelism team full-time with the new church for the first year of its life . |
| 14 | But Zurich believes that it can make the business profitable with the right package of tailor-made services — for instance , advice on security of buildings and reduction of accidents at work as well as insurance . |
| 15 | Schluchsee is also a spa town complete with the medicinal and mud baths so popular with our European counterparts . |
| 16 | Allowing for the utmost frankness and lack of embarrassment possible with the individual client , it might be pointed out that it is possible to be too bright and breezy . |
| 17 | A secretariat staffer involved with the latter says multinational industry should police itself . |
| 18 | Well he 's , he works in some factory and the partner he does , he does erm chimney sweeping with the old . |
| 19 | The steadily rising interest in many countries in hydrology in all its branches makes this an opportune time in which to launch a new Journal concerned with the scientific aspects of the subject . |
| 20 | The teacher will be part of a team concerned with the educational support of the severely visually impaired pupil and will be the person responsible for implementing the recommendations of other professionals in day-to-day terms . |
| 21 | At its centre stands labourism coterminous with the Labour Party , from which we move out successively to trade unionism , the working class and finally bourgeois society . |
| 22 | Athelstan carefully ripped the canvas open with the small knife he always carried . |
| 23 | There were few outcries by settlers , as in France with regard to Indo-China and Algeria , no crisis comparable with the chaotic fate of the former Belgian Congo , no agony approaching that of the United States over Vietnam . |
| 24 | On average ( £5.44 per capita ) the Wealden vale was filly comparable with the com-sheep region ( £5 — £5.55 ) and far more affluent than the forest ridge to the east ( £4.64 ) , where , in contrast to the rest of Sussex , the scarcity of truly rich people placed the biggest concentration of wealth in the range £10-£19 instead of £20-£39 . |
| 25 | There is , however , every reason to believe that the insect head arose by the coalescence of a number of body segments and a non-segmental anteriorly-placed acron homologous with the Annelid prostomium . |
| 26 | Is behaviour consistent with the optimal strategy ? |
| 27 | The Thames at Abingdon was barely fishable for the Mick 's Tackle Open with the bottom areas of the March length frozen over for the full 50 yard width . |
| 28 | Handsets will be have to offered at about £300 — way below the cost of making them to start with , until volumes bring the cost down — in order to make the service competitive with the cellular duopoly.The company insists that analysts ' worries that there will be a shortage of handsets is unfounded . |
| 29 | The system was introduced to a wider audience at a lecture on ‘ chemical constitution and its relation to physiological action ’ , reported in Chemical News complete with the new ‘ graphic formulae ’ . |
| 30 | 3.3 Whilst the assessment of risk and the permitted limits of response in a given situation remain a matter for individual judgement some simple advice consistent with the relevant legal and policy guidelines and training principles may be useful . |