Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lesbian couple has won a three-year battle with Hampshire County Council to foster a child after being denied permission on the grounds of their sexuality . |
| 2 | OUR friends in the Vaux Bluebell Over 40s League , where many an ex-professional has had his energies redirected , have won a remarkable victory with worldwide implications . |
| 3 | Oracle UK Ltd has won a 16-year contract with the British Army valued at £4m which will standardise all of the Army 's IT projects around the Oracle database . |
| 4 | On Wilcock 's suggestion the Voice had approached a distinguished critic with the New York Times Book Review , Gilbert Seldes . |
| 5 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 6 | On a stone wall perched a black bird with a white bib : it was a ring ouzel , a bird of mountain and moor land . |
| 7 | It seems that Mr Stringer has never really enjoyed a close relationship with the supporters since , but that could all change at Hillsborough tomorrow afternoon . |
| 8 | US President George Bush had enjoyed a personal rapport with Gorbachev and was believed to prefer dealing with one person , especially on nuclear issues . |
| 9 | But these countries have long enjoyed a thriving trade with cattle farmers in the Sahel — Mali , Burkina Faso , Niger , Chad — directly to the north . |
| 10 | The 1970's can not be concluded without a reference to some of the societies who have enjoyed a special relationship with Henley and which started in this decade . |
| 11 | Of the other two operatives making up the team , she had always enjoyed a special rapport with the phlegmatic C. W. Whitlock . |
| 12 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 13 | Several studies have reported a positive association with ischaemic heart disease , but after correction for the effect of cholesterol serum triglyceride does not appear to be an independent risk factor ( Hulley et al , 1980 ) . |
| 14 | Having pursued a pseudo-Hegelian sequence with an emphasis on the ever increasing abstraction , which leads to an ever more radical separation of subject and object , we are faced with the question of the nature of subject-object relations in this new era . |
| 15 | Hamas had campaigned on a " rejectionist " ticket , but the PLO-affiliated " rejectionist " groups had presented a united front with al-Fatah in opposition to Hamas . |
| 16 | On that occasion Gary McAllister had silenced a frenzied atmosphere with a stunning volley in the second minute . |
| 17 | He looked around very carefully and finally met a young lady with whom he fell head-long in love . |
| 18 | Earlier in the month , on Nov. 8 , Roh had attended a one-day meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Kyoto , in what was described as the first of a planned series of regular bilateral discussions . |
| 19 | Seems you 've done a good job with our Crilly . ’ |
| 20 | You know , and then you leave it It 's what they term soft and it 's got to be left to sort of harden you know , and then some instances some people prefer a dull polish , they do n't like a a very bright and they 'll say what they call pumi powdered pumice stone and they put that sprinkle that on , and it 's got to be done a certain way with a brush so to not to leave any marks . |
| 21 | Frank Dick has done a great job with the shorter track events , but there 's a huge difference between those and the distance events . |
| 22 | Willie Carson will also resting easy after suggestions that he had been wrong to bring about the withdrawal of the red-hot favourite , Superoo , before the start of Ascot 's opening event on Saturday , having done a similar thing with the favourite , Red Paddy , before the Royal Hunt Cup . |
| 23 | She has recently done a six-figure deal with Carol Smith for world volume rights in three books by ‘ bestselling novelist and TV personality ’ Denise Robertson , the first of which will be published in September 1994 . |
| 24 | JOE STALIN 'S favourite scientist , the late Trofim Denosovich Lysenko , would surely have felt a spiritual kinship with the fleeing management of the American Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) . |
| 25 | The friendly dispatch clerk had written a personal note with the invoice attached . |
| 26 | They had built a strong relationship with audiences both at home and abroad . |
| 27 | Inside is a circular canal enclosing a small island on which was built a fine pavilion with domed halls and a central fountain . |
| 28 | Operations director Alan Brown has been with the company since 1969 , as chef , manager and director , so he has built a long-standing relationship with many of our clients . |
| 29 | Peter 's Bar may be the reason why Horta became such a popular stopping off spot for transatlantic yachts , and because so many yachts stop there the authorities have built a large marina with every facility . |
| 30 | A spokesman said UN authorities had lodged a strong protest with the Belgrade authorities over the Yugoslav military war games in mid-March when troops crossed the Danube to land on Croatian territory . |