Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Multiple regression analysis showed no increase in the correlation when the villous height/crypt depth ratio and intraepithelial lymphocyte count together where compared with the cellobiose/ mannitol % ( multiple r=0.50 ) . |
| 2 | Some take the profoundly defeatist view that the kicking and screaming which would accompany a successful revolt would do even more damage than sticking with the lady . |
| 3 | It is not to be doubted that there are still thousands of mainframe users that want nothing more than to continue with the kind of computing they have always known , using the environment with which they are familiar , and in which they have invested a large part of their lives . |
| 4 | Tangy and crisp with a fruity flavour we quite liked this one , although we were less than impressed with the look of the bottle . |
| 5 | ( c ) Position conflicts : the position you take in one piece of litigation may be at odds with the position you want to take in a subsequent action ( for example , in advancing the cause of a plaintiff you may adopt a position that puts you in difficulty with some defence clients who are less than impressed with the vigour with which you espouse the plaintiff 's cause ) . |
| 6 | It accelerated more than anticipated with the result that the capsule landed in the Atlantic over a hundred miles away from the target area . |
| 7 | PROGRESS in setting up a new retreat centre in Falkland in Fife which was initiated by Church of Scotland deaconess Lynda Wright has been much swifter than anticipated with the result that it will welcome its first guests from the beginning of April . |
| 8 | Note that the inflection occurring with the transposed lexical item has remained in its grammatically correct position , rather than moving with the base item to which it would normally have been attached . |
| 9 | Rather than contend with the pain of being left , he ensured that relationships broke down if they were in danger of becoming important to him . |
| 10 | Where productivity is higher the carpet thickens and becomes peaty ; Allen and Heal ( 1970 ) reported moss peat up to 2 m thick , overlying rather than mixing with the mineral soil beneath . |
| 11 | This is partly because as a harder metal it makes a more secure setting for valuable stones and partly that being a white metal it reflects rather than competes with the brilliance and lustre of diamonds . |
| 12 | A censure motion introduced on Oct. 26 by the conservative opposition parties to protest against an " unrealistic " budget obtained only 261 of the 286 parliamentary votes necessary to defeat the government ; the Communist party abstained , rather than voting with the right as it had done in an earlier censure motion , in June 1992 [ see pp. 38977-78 ] . |
| 13 | Teachers were always busy , and many schools put GIST on a rather lower priority than dealing with the impact of unemployment , school reorganization , discipline or curricular problems . |
| 14 | As a result , an institutional compromise was found whereby the Governmental Accounting Standards Board was established , which , although associated with the FASB , is nevertheless separate . |
| 15 | These rules were subsequently amended by the CMI , which although affiliated with the ILA acted as an independent entity . |
| 16 | While he advised them to refrain from indulging in personal abuse of Jews … he exhorted them not to retreat in the face of Police persecution and declared that , if necessary , all Fascist speakers should be prepared to face imprisonment rather than comply with the dictum of the authorities that they were not to attack Jewry . |
| 17 | Priests in some parishes decided to drop the ceremony altogether , rather than comply with the ban against women 's participation . |
| 18 | ‘ You mean the way he walked out right through the wall rather than bothering with the doorway , chief ? ’ |
| 19 | And Merson revealed : ‘ The boss called me in on Monday and told me that it would be best if I played in the reserves on Tuesday rather than travel with the squad to Blackburn . |
| 20 | The finding of archaeology that over the last five thousand years men of the most diverse civilizations have invariably set the highest values on substances which , however attractive aesthetically , were nevertheless useless for purposes of daily life , coincides with the observation of North American society during the last quarter of the nineteenth century made by Thorstein Veblen and embodied in his classic book The Theory of the Leisure Class , originally published in 1899.5 Although composed with the animus and spleen of a man condemned by his personality to a life of persistent failure , Veblen produced a book hilarious in style but of quite brilliant perversity . |
| 21 | ( Morrissey invests his emotion in pristine idols , preferably dead , like James Dean , rather than deal with the mess and awkwardness of any real close encounter . ) |
| 22 | Although there have been philosophers — Leibniz is an obvious example — who have tried to reconcile this view with the idea of a pluralist ontology , it is clear that if conjoined with the principle of independence the doctrine of the internality of relations provides a powerful support for the monist thesis . |
| 23 | A companion horse who is used to being floated , if floated with the beginner can make the difference between success and disaster . |
| 24 | Gloria still , if riddled with the pox ( their secret ) , good to turn men 's heads . |
| 25 | A secular power such as Constantine 's , if aligned with the orthodoxy of the time , would have provided an effective bulwark against any attempt by Jesus 's true heirs to assert their claim . |
| 26 | Googol fiddled ostentatiously with the bandana round his brow as if toying with the idea of removing what masked his third eye , the warp-eye , a hostile glare from which could kill , as was widely known though seldom tested . |
| 27 | ‘ Plastic and other contaminants , if mixed with the paper , can foul up the recycling process leading to the rejection of the waste by the pulp manufacturer , ’ he explained . |
| 28 | It can be argued therefore that the restraints of Functionalism , if prepared with the genius of a Stravinsky , a Mondrian , a Nervi , a Lloyd Wright or a Corbusier permit magnificent freedom within each disciplined field . |
| 29 | Packing ladies at the CBS factory where the record was being manufactured refused to handle it , until threatened with the sack . |
| 30 | A Labour motion if approved with the support of the Liberal Democrats would ban hunting on all 10,000 acres of council owned land . |