Example sentences of "[vb pp] with a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , gold is mixed with a variety of alloys to enhance these qualities , and it is this mixture which determines its value and purity . |
| 2 | But the joy should be mixed with a tinge of sadness . |
| 3 | The Oryctes virus is mixed with a bait to which adult beetles are attracted . |
| 4 | In this silkiest of works there needs to be an elegant bonhomie , mixed with a hint of gentle sadness , which quite eludes the Israel PO and the soloist , who seem intent on squeezing out each last drip of sentiment — surely a misunderstanding of the composer 's style and aspirations . |
| 5 | The sensual appraisal was mixed with a hint of amusement which could have been in response to her apparent coyness , or perhaps her short-skirted dress with its modest round neckline was the cause , its clash of riotous colours outrageous , orange running into scarlet into crimson with small touches of hot pink . |
| 6 | Each of his friends around the table , he realizes , is surrounded with a kind of aura . |
| 7 | To ask how a piece of machinery worked was not to deny that each part had been designed with a function in mind . |
| 8 | Simple , but both beautiful and functional : this small garden was designed with a family in mind . |
| 9 | A second series was designed with a view to lower costs ( Cattenom , Belleville , Nogent , Penly ) . |
| 10 | The various component projects have been designed with a view to producing a coherent perspective on the evolution of regulations , policy-making and implementation in regulatory agencies , and the impact of regulatory controls in the broad field of safety and health at work . |
| 11 | But these should be designed with a view to be pupil friendly and easily used by non-specialist teaching , for example , supply teachers . |
| 12 | Labour held it until 1983 when SDP President and former Labour MP Ian Wrigglesworth dramatically won with a majority of 102 . |
| 13 | This was to gather under the very roof of Darlington Hall the most influential of the gentlemen whose support had been won with a view to conducting an ‘ unofficial ’ international conference — a conference that would discuss the means by which the harshest terms of the Versailles treaty could be revised . |
| 14 | On the evening of 11 May 1946 La Scala was officially reopened with a performance of La Gazza Ladra , conducted by Arturo Toscanini who travelled from the United States specially . |
| 15 | After six months of work under the direction of Guy Cogeval , conservateur du patrimoine , the museum has reopened with a number of improvements and alterations to the building . |
| 16 | Inside three laps Mansell blasted from seventh to second and his radio suddenly crackled with a message from the pits : ‘ Stay where you are … the title is yours . |
| 17 | Mr Foxon himself was attacked with a crowbar at the same site just last week and the firm has had to double its guard at the retail park . |
| 18 | If a structural wall is too thick to absorb the fungicide to its core , it must be drilled with a series of holes into which the liquid is injected in order to permeate the entire thickness . |
| 19 | Mature striated muscle cells make muscle-specific proteins and when such a cell is fused with a variety of other cell types which include liver and cartilage cells , then muscle-specific genes are activated in these cells leading to the production of muscle-specific proteins . |
| 20 | The van loaded with newspapers appeared in the gates , its sinister gleaming look telling everyone to hate it ; the pickets surged forward , shouting ; and there was Jasper , as she had seen him so often , his pale face distorted with a look of abstracted and dedicated hate , his reddish crop of gleaming hair . |
| 21 | A burst of frequency between 10 and 10 4 Hz is expected with a duration of several cycles and an energy release of between and in gravitational waves from a star core of mass M. The mass M is expected to be similar to that of the pulsars , which average around for the few cases where measurements have been made . |
| 22 | There was rain in the air outside ; inside , the air was suffused with a mixture of cigar fumes and evaporating sweat — the fumes from the audience , the sweat from the boxers whose endeavours were the principal attraction of the evening . |
| 23 | Suffused with a sense of history , precise yet pragmatic in mood , the book 's readability gains from its author 's gentle sense of irony , and exemplifies an Edwardian affinity between literature and ‘ social science ’ that has since been lost . |
| 24 | Still suffused with a sense of equality to the challenge that confronted him , he slipped deftly into the image he believed the other man would have of him . |
| 25 | She looked at the man sitting opposite her , and was suffused with a sense of loss . |
| 26 | Sport is high-performance stuff varied with a bit of club golf played by famous people or a marathon which involves both top athletes and the general public . |
| 27 | Further studies with a defined glucose polymer where electrolyte composition is constant but osmolality and substrate concentration is varied with a range of monomer and polymer concentrations may lead to be a better understanding of these phenomena . |
| 28 | Spiced with soldier 's slang and scattered with a mix of European languages , it is at times a shocking , at other times a sentimental , but always a worthwhile account . |
| 29 | The chicks are placed on a surface scattered with a mix of food grains and pebbles of about the same size and colour of the food . |
| 30 | The connections to the cistern are straightforward : the ballvalve is connected via a tap connector , which has a small fibre or rubber washer to make the seal ( a bent tap connector is often best for this job ) ; the cold feeds are connected to the tank connectors with compression joints and must fall gently away from the cistern to avoid airlocks ; the overflow pipe can be copper or plastic ( with a plastic tank connector ) and should be installed with a fall of at least 1 in 10 from the cistern . |