Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] with the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I see wide attackers being allowed to come inside for shots , centre-backs who do not appear to have a clue about positional play and plenty of evidence to suggest that we are no longer producing defenders with the ability and confidence to cope on their own . ’
2 Once the researcher is inside the organisation , there are problems of developing and maintaining relationships with the subjects of study .
3 Neff has been steadily building up its reputation for fine cookers and electrical appliances since the company revolutionised cooking methods with the introduction of its ‘ Circotherm ’ oven in the 1970s .
4 It may be inappropriate to undertake a detailed investigation prior to opening discussions with the target .
5 So , being more concerned for understanding relationships with the Burmese , I declined the USOWI offer .
6 Capote was as raucous as ever , eyeing the sisters , cracking jokes with the executioner , telling the good prioress to have a second cup ready for the journey back .
7 He travels extensively over the Old World , opening relations with the Empire , Bretonnia and even the Dwarfs .
8 He established trading connections with the sultan of Kedah , by whom he was offered in 1771 the port and the coast as far as the island of Penang in return for help against the Bugis of Selangor .
9 The Cassons can develop this market by : • Cultivating links with the Ironbridge Gorge Trust accommodation office and offering discounted rates and packages for chance bookings .
10 After Britain 's entry into the Common Market in 1975 , trading links with the Commonwealth countries loomed much less large , as did defence considerations after the Wilson government withdrew Britain 's presence from ‘ east of Suez ’ in 1968–70 .
11 According to Yangon radio , troops raided 20 Mandalay monasteries , seizing illegal publications , flags , weapons and other items revealing links with the NLD and the defunct Communist Party of Burma , and arresting some 350 monks .
12 More recently , Minsky has revived these notions , explicitly drawing analogies with the sorts of ‘ modularity ’ to be found in the writings of Freud ( the three-way Ego , Id , Super-ego division ) and Leibniz in his Monadology , by claiming that an appropriate machine analogue of the human individual should have , among its modules , a supreme organizer .
13 The company promises to provide its corporate customers with early access to leading-edge technology and says it is solidifying relationships with the kind of partners that can provide extremely high volume manufacturing , capability and full global distribution .
14 The wartime routine was enlivened by a series of afternoon musical concerts for secondary school pupils at the Davenport Theatre ; by potato-picking at harvest time ; by Christmas work at the General Post Office ; by firewatching duties with the ARP , both at School and at Stockport High School ( the latter venue being very popular , a girls ' school and not to be confused with its short-lived 19th century boys ' predecessor ) ; and by the various fund-raising " War Weeks " : " War Weapons Week " in 1941 raised £5,729 ; " School Warships " in 1942 £5,900 ; " Wings for Victory " in 1943 £10,571 ; " Salute the Soldier " in 1944 £10,785 ; and " Thanksgiving Week " in 1945 raised £14,100 , and also won the boys an extra half-holiday .
15 Fig. 21 shows the Dioscuri ( Kastor and Polydeukes ) rustling cattle with the sons of Aphareus ( one is missing ; the names are written beside them ) .
16 Operating problems with the computer reservations system had resulted in a backlog of 10,000 bookings needing to be rechecked , making it impossible to tell who had and had not paid for tickets .
17 The immaculately restored Standard moved to the Bluebell Railway after one season of service on the Paignton to Kingswear line following a dispute over operating terms with the management of the Dart Valley Railway plc .
18 Unfortunately not all discourse types , especially the less formal ones , have their own overt terminology , and we should avoid burdening students with the kind of specialized metalanguage employed in , for example , the analysis of a school lesson by Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) described in 4.3 .
19 The most recent of these was a campaign in which we visited schools , producing tapes with the children on subjects such as drugs , smoking and the environment .
20 The 1986 Peacock Committee , for example , considered the future of television in Britain by invoking parallels with the press and the abolition of pre-publication censorship in 1694 .
21 Jonathan Mann , director of the World Health Organization 's global programme on AIDS , which he founded in 1986 and which had an annual budget of over US$100,000,000 , announced his resignation on March 16 , citing disagreements with the WHO Director-General , Hiroshi Nakajima .
22 Furthermore , as I have tried to show in my book Evangelism in the Early Church , there was considerable flexibility in the way the gospel was preached to different audiences in different circumstances , coupled with great unity in presenting men with the person of Jesus , the offer of forgiveness through his death on the cross , the promise of the Holy Spirit , and the challenge to repent and believe and be baptised .
23 Before we leave Glamorgan , a word of congratulation to Stephen James , who has been opening in place of Butcher and compiling runs with the kind of technique that reveals how earnestly he is trying to establish himself this summer .
24 The work of the Centre will be aimed specifically at developing ways of establishing and measuring outcomes with the aim of clarifying the results of particular policies and practices .
25 My hon. Friend the Minister of State , Treasury , is conducting discussions with the industry on the basis of a proposal for a flat rate agricultural tax which would replace the 17.5 per cent .
26 Commercial director added : ‘ We are combining our chemical synthesising skills with the polymer skills of Research .
27 In only 12 years , Alan Campbell has developed a super-efficient , highly reputable , Internationally-acclaimed business affiliated ( as Trading Members ) to the British Institute of Freight Forwarders ' Association providing exporters with the knowledge that the company has indemnity insurance and operates with properly and highly qualified staff .
28 The report , by the public health doctorate , advocates good sex education in schools , providing teenagers with the skills to negotiate the use of condoms and easier access to them .
29 On shelves to one side stood retorts containing limbs with the flesh still on them , floating in preserving fluid — human limbs , I supposed , but did not attempt to identify them .
30 They took to wearing sandals with the words ‘ follow me ’ in Greek cut into the soles in mirror writing .
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