Example sentences of "[vb -s] with [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officials from 35 countries held preliminary discussions on July 15-17 on working out a European Energy Charter , planned for signature in mid-December 1991 , which would link the Soviet Union 's oil and gas supplies with Western countries ' financing and technological expertise . |
| 2 | Because one of the Bailes cows , Rose by name , had the kind of obscure digestive ailment which interferes with veterinary surgeons ' sleep . |
| 3 | In 1874 the Mercury reported that the custom was in decline but ‘ formerly several gangs of ‘ plough-witches ' ’ , ludicrously dressed and with hideous painted faces , came in from the country and visited the tradesmen 's shops , levying ‘ ‘ black-mail' ’ and generally terminating their begging rounds with drunken orgies ' . |
| 4 | So , I write , as well as this diary , some of my new novel ( a killer , this one , dealing as it does with post-Holocaust survivors ' guilt ; why do I set myself these agonies ? ) and start pinch-hitting for Gloria Hunniford on Radio Two . |
| 5 | This motif occurs also at his church of North Runcton , Norfolk , rebuilt 1703–13 , which shares with All Saints ' in Northampton the plan of a Greek cross within a rectangle , probably derived from Wren 's St Mary-at-Hill . |