Example sentences of "[vb pp] with [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been proved in several places : in some arctic localities it is found with trilobites that lived at great depths in the muds of the Ordovician ocean , while in Canada the same species occurs mixed with the inhabitants of the shallow-water seas , where limestones were accumulating . |
| 2 | Athelstan agreed , pulling the cowl of his hood closer against the sight of rotting refuse , discarded food and human excrement tossed out in night pots , mixed with the sweepings from the houses as the citizens prepared for a festive season . |
| 3 | Anyway they 'd be pretty disgusting , mixed with the bits in his pocket . |
| 4 | Sensations rushed in : the cries of the traders in the street below them mixed with the screams of the swallows that swished low across the roofs ; the dark aroma of the strong coffee mingled with the fresh smell of the bread . |
| 5 | The waves of colour of the wild flowers mixed with the waves of sound . |
| 6 | Uncle sent me to St Bartholomew 's and Agrippa brought an old lady who fed me on a concoction of crushed moss mixed with the leavings of sour milk . |
| 7 | He 's surrounded with the fruits of the earth . ’ |
| 8 | The monthly tests were designed with the demands of the scholarship exam in mind but Alfie , with his severe special needs , did not achieve a single mark in any test during the three years . |
| 9 | The facility should not , however , be designed with the ideas of a particular individual in mind , although agreement on basic principles is obviously important . |
| 10 | They should be designed with the needs of cycle traffic in mind and should normally have the right of way at crossroads . |
| 11 | In the cyclic natural scheme of things some kind of decay is essential , otherwise not only would the earth be cluttered with the stems of most of the plants which have ever lived , but most of the world 's supply of carbon would be locked up in cellulose so that life could not be carried on . |
| 12 | It was of high quality , and was also perfumed with the flowers of an English garden . |
| 13 | New York state governor Mario Cuomo , who had been expected to announce whether he would run [ see p. 38521 ] , continued to be occupied with the problems of the recession-hit state economy and with the need to negotiate a budget with his Republican-controlled legislature . |
| 14 | Johnny was by now fully occupied with the fastenings on the controversial halter-necked garment . |
| 15 | Dauberval 's exclusion from the Académie Royale ( later the Paris Opera ) was justified by those in charge because they felt his idea of making farmers , peasants and the like the heroes and heroines of his ballets was beneath the dignity of an opera house whose stage had hitherto been occupied with the deeds of noble heroes , heroines and courts . |
| 16 | The king had his share of the spoils too ; and Windsor Castle was substantially rebuilt with the proceeds of the ransom of John II . |
| 17 | What I should like to highlight , however , is the fact that , notwithstanding Dicey 's formalism , his theory is suffused with the ideas of the ancient conception of the rule of law . |
| 18 | This ‘ front-back ’ pattern of fungal distribution has been observed in many variations among a number of insect groups , supporting the contention that insects are inoculated with the spores of their respective fungi during copulation . |
| 19 | A nearby tray was furnished with a mug and a large plate scattered with the crumbs of a large slice of cake . |
| 20 | It would have been expecting too much to imagine that the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ might disappear overnight in 1945 , disintegrating along with the mortal remains of the Führer himself and being scattered with the ashes of the Third Reich . |
| 21 | To detect any contamination of samples before breaking the code , negative controls of sterile water were included with the samples in a ratio of one negative control per three samples and treated identically at each stage . |
| 22 | Echinacea purpurea , also native to the American prairies , was at one time included with the rudbeckias as R. purpurea , differing most obviously in having purplish-red ray-florets . |
| 23 | Finally , there are ‘ authority constraints ’ ; for example , free school transport may not be available to children living within a certain distance of school ; or opening hours may be mis-matched with the timings of public transport , rendering the services effectively inaccessible to users dependent on public transport . |
| 24 | The walls of Belgo are embossed with the names of Rabelaisian fish that read like insults : ‘ Coldeel , Begginback , Cocklicrane , Assface . ’ |
| 25 | Engineers have long wrestled with the problems of safe guarding equipment against RFI . |
| 26 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
| 27 | In those few months my brain had become saturated with the things of my new life — even my mouth was full of RAF slang and jargon . |
| 28 | … while Men 's Heads are busied with the arts of money-jobbing between the Exchange and the Exchequer , they will be drawn off from the solid arts of honourable traffic ; which alone can prove nationally and permanently lucrative . |
| 29 | I want to share in that ordinary , uncomplicated animal warmth , free of human complexities or human odours , their breath sweetened with the juices of twice-digested grass and other comely vegetation plucked from remembered waysides . |
| 30 | She could see the Beastline overlords who had sat with the Wolfkings at Tara ; proud and noble and dignified , and just very slightly cruel , but charming and strong as well , and utterly loyal to the High King . |