Example sentences of "[coord] with a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When eating on your own or with the family , serve a variety of crudités ( raw vegetables ) soaked in lemon juice or with a little reduced calorie mayonnaise as a dip . |
| 2 | Usually the moment of insight came with Chaplin or with a brilliantly stunning film such as Murnau 's Sunrise but perhaps it was the quality of the acting which did more than anything to suggest that the feature film had become significant . |
| 3 | Lizzie proved a very capable and caring mother and Kim is now a fully integrated member of the group — always on the go and with a distinctly extrovert personality . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm glad , ’ she replied impishly , though added , ‘ And I went to bed , feeling unhappy and with a heavily laden conscience and , for my sins , dreamt awful dreams of you being in danger . |
| 5 | For one brief moment he had thought it was Jenny , absurdly garbed and with a ridiculously short haircut . |
| 6 | I holds just under a pint , and with a rather handy little lid . |
| 7 | And with a little extra trouble it can be turned into a splendid party dish — not for a grand formal party to be sure , or even a buffet party , but the sort of meal for intimate friends when you can put all the food on a huge scrubbed kitchen table and everyone sits round and helps themselves . |
| 8 | IT DIDN'T. 1988 is widely perceived as Reading 's nadir , poorly attended and with a woefully average line-up , even by Reading 's by now hopeless standards . |
| 9 | The D-32 is made of Indian rosewood and has gold Gotoh machines , while the D-18 has the chrome versions and is built from a very attractive wood called Mutenye , or Ovangol — something like walnut , but very strongly straight-grained and with a most becoming yellow-brown colour . |
| 10 | And with a most clumsy technique , the audacity and crudeness of which I could hardly believe . |
| 11 | He did , and with a most impressive gargling technique rarely heard outside a waste disposal unit , coming up for air to declare the stuff just as peculiar as could be expected , ‘ as no two bottles are ever the same ’ . |
| 12 | Shortly after all this , he was out of hospital and home again , convinced he had beaten his cancer and with a most positive attitude towards recovery . |
| 13 | If OUP are entirely satisfied with the method of text capture and with a reasonably large proportion of the machine-readable output ( say , the equivalent of one volume of OED ) , there is no reason why the first editing phase , i.e. the integration of OED and Supplement into a single work , should not be begun , assuming no other technical problems prevented this . |
| 14 | ‘ Some of our customers are OAPs without cars , and with a pretty unreliable bus service they could n't get to Alton easily , ’ Mrs. Read said . |
| 15 | ( The aircraft , from e(F)/121 , got back to Sicily in damaged condition and with a mortally wounded gunner . ) |
| 16 | Well known as riff-writer extraordinaire and with a seemingly bottomless pit of catchy songs to draw from , Canadian Adams confides that his approach to songwriting and guitar playing is actually based upon a formula . |
| 17 | Then again , his fast-bowling policy , more than any other factor , has hastened the decline of the spinner , a decline that has been hugely to the game 's detriment ; and with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of young speed men reaching the Test team and creating further successes , there is little sign that the decline might be halted . |
| 18 | The door at the far end opened and a girl in a similar serving-wench dress but of silk and with a richly embroidered apron came in carrying a small cardboard box . |
| 19 | Like many great cities , it fostered within it an active turbulent group of middle and lower citizens , with some local nobles among them , and with a strongly anticlerical flavour to it . |
| 20 | ‘ If you English tourists get too powerful around here , ’ he told me over a glass of grappa , and with a particularly charming smile , ‘ I think I can remember where the old machine-guns are buried . ’ |
| 21 | The more immediate background to government thinking behind the national curriculum is to be found in Better Schools ( March 1985 ) — published precisely one year after Improving Secondary Schools and with a curiously similar title and its introductory paragraphs : |
| 22 | The greatest changes in sleep in humans take place during the first year of life , with the normal one-year-old showing essentially the same patterns of sleep as the adult , although in different proportions of stages , and with a recognizably different EEG . |
| 23 | They may play in a different key and with a somewhat different emphasis but the tune can often be heard all the same . |
| 24 | Other pupils can take the matter further , and with a quite simple automatic camera create perfectly acceptable photographs , perhaps in colour slide form to lead to a tape-slide sequence . |
| 25 | Trinucleid trilobites are blind , and with a greatly inflated mid-part of the head region . |
| 26 | And with a faintly questioning intonation that fitzAlan would have to be deaf to miss . |
| 27 | On the other hand it can be argued that the sauropods like Brachiosaurus were so large , and with a relatively small surface area through which to cool compared with their enormous volume , that their cooling rate could have been slow enough to allow them to sustain more continuous activity than smaller , living reptiles . |
| 28 | However , one of the chief difficulties in creating an improvement of schools ' practice at grassroots level is that schools , when faced with the challenge presented by self-examination and with a relatively limited knowledge of available strategies and resources , tend to use the process to reinforce existing ( perhaps inadequate ) practices rather than to seek new , more fruitful relationships between curriculum areas or to develop more appropriate teaching methods . |
| 29 | The agent will send it around to publishing houses where she or he will have contacts , so your work will be seen more quickly and with a more benevolent eye . |
| 30 | ‘ They will see a company determined to progress in key markets , with clear objectives and targets and with a more competitive cost base to ensure our future success , ’ he said . |