Example sentences of "[vb pp] with [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disillusioned with managing the national team , Andy Beattie chose the most inappropriate moment to tender his resignation . |
| 2 | Even Roxburgh had to admit that over the last year , during which Ferguson has flirted with letting the latter trait get the better of the former , has brought the player an ‘ awareness of the tough , competitive business he is in . ’ |
| 3 | Nourish 's ‘ allergenic risks ’ refer to the problems connected with keeping the entire process totally contained , from the fermenter , through the separation of the product in centrifuges , to the treatment and disposal of effluents . |
| 4 | Most people incorrectly believe that you must belong to a gym which is equipped with ail the latest equipment in order to make any significant progress in weight training . |
| 5 | The detachments were to be entrusted with disarming the rival Georgian and Ossete paramilitary groups which since December 1990 had been engaged in what Yeltsin described as a " mini-civil war " . |
| 6 | The latest volume of the magisterial History of English Criminal Law ( Radzinowicz and Hood , 1986 , vol. 5 ) shows that criminologists at the turn of the century were vexed with explaining the puzzling phenomenon of English success in conquering routine crime and violence . |
| 7 | These passive , voyeuristic , passenger thrills were dull stuff , however , compared with driving the single-seat Formula First . |
| 8 | In 1983 it bought Unimation , a company credited with inventing the industrial robot . |
| 9 | Many believe that Mr Kinnock 's heart may have been cut out and stamped on but that it beats anew in Mr Brown , and for this reason alone the party leader is credited with wanting the 41-year old Scot to succeed him in the event of disaster . |
| 10 | And it is a Scot who is credited with using the first ‘ cady ’ on the golf course , namely the Marquis of Montrose , who played on that delightful east-coast course in the 1620s and wrote in his accounts , ‘ payment of four shillings to the boy who carried my clubs ’ . |
| 11 | Richard Schonberger , a Midwestern engineer by training , is credited with introducing the Japanese just-in-time system to US manufacturing . |
| 12 | The government was credited with advancing the ongoing peace process with URNG guerrillas a step further with the signing of the " Mexico accord " in April 1991 [ see p. 38141 ] . |
| 13 | Which home secretary is credited with founding the modern police force ? |
| 14 | Vittorio Cassoni , erstwhile head of AT&T 's computer shop , and as such , the single individual most credited with giving the Open Software Foundation a reason to exist and dividing the Unix community into two opposing camps , has left Olivetti , who lent him to AT&T in the first place , to join Xerox Corp as executive vice president . |
| 15 | As a composer and a soloist Bach did much to champion the pianoforte , an instrument then being developed in London by German immigrant craftsmen : the sonatas Op. 5 are apparently the first works published in England to include the piano on the title-page , and Bach is credited with performing the first solo on the instrument in public in London in 1768 . |
| 16 | The man usually credited with starting the whole population ball rolling was an Englishman , Thomas Malthus . |
| 17 | If the professional private sector end of the tourist industry can work together so , surely , must the public bodies currently charged with promoting the various parts of the Scottish tourism industry . |
| 18 | They are further charged with promoting the industrial and social life of the county and encouraging good works . |
| 19 | A SENIOR director of Bell Lawrie White , the Edinburgh stockbroker , appears today in the High Court charged with contravening the 1985 insider dealing act . |
| 20 | Stephen Douras , 30 , of Salerno Drive , Huyton , is charged with murdering the 25 year-old musician , from Adswood Road , Huyton , on May 15 . |
| 21 | The heads of state of Cameroon , Congo , Gabon and Zaïre met in Kinshasa , the capital of Zaïre , on Feb. 7 , noting that the Angolan situation had become " alarming " ; all four governments were members of the eight-country group charged with overseeing the Gbadolite peace process [ see pp. 36726 ; 36885 ] . |
| 22 | This top-down approach is favoured by the two major institutions charged with saving the tropical forests , the International Tropical Timber Organisation , and the World Bank and UN backed Tropical Foresty Action Plan . |
| 23 | Damjanovic 's wife , who was in the same car , is charged with harbouring the two and possession of stolen goods . |
| 24 | Charged with evaluating the remaining exploration potential in the country 's oldest basin , the task has exposed the project team to a rich history of geology , politics and social issues . |
| 25 | In a lengthy submission to the party 's Commission on Social Justice — which has been charged with reviewing the whole welfare state — Mr Blunkett suggests further debate on making the community service scheme compulsory . |
| 26 | The selectors are charged with selecting the best available side from the talent made available . |
| 27 | One is charged with upholding the moral order , while the other equally essential class helps to explain inappropriate affliction . |
| 28 | Bartley , 23 , of Bell Walk , Newton Aycliffe , was also charged with having the two guns after a 12 year prison sentence which barred him from owning firearms . |
| 29 | In this case , our intrepid ex-Liverpool thespian plays Captain Beams , one of the English officers charged with keeping the troublesome Hawkeye ( Daniel Day-Lewis ) under wraps during the American frontier wars of the 1750s . |
| 30 | The trial in Moscow of 12 men , charged with leading the attempted coup in Moscow in 1991 , disintegrated after the judge dismissed the prosecuting team . |