Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [det] [noun pl] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such human needs will range from the basic ones for security , which are threatened when other members of an organization wish to close part of the operation down or attempt to perform the same operations with fewer personnel , to the need for self-realization , which may be threatened by extreme specialization and limited capabilities within the division of labour perceived by those in authority to be necessary for the maximization of their objectives ( which will invariably be presented as the goals of ‘ the organization ’ ) . |
| 2 | Was Consumers ' Co-operation , first conceived of as a means to realise co-operative aspirations of a much more comprehensive kind , to establish the same relations with its employees as would any other employer ? |
| 3 | In the near future I intend to expand this unholy alliance into a much larger tank and to try a few experiments with the set-up and some new species which I 'll no doubt relate if they 're successful . |
| 4 | all I want out of this life is to meet a few men with something more between their ears than the latest Donna Summer hit . |
| 5 | We are happy to report no such troubles with the 300SL-24 which felt rock solid throughout the test . |
| 6 | In its place there stands a new Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation which employs the same people to do the same things with the same money — $1.8 billion requested for the next year . |
| 7 | It might be easier to use a few objects with clearly differentiated attributes as a starting point , but conversations of this kind can occur spontaneously in many activities . |
| 8 | Dear Ralph It was a blessing to have met with you Wednesday night to share a few moments with a fellow Christian who like I has stumbled on the walk . |
| 9 | She had managed , nevertheless , to seize a few moments with the erstwhile companion when the gentlemen returned , for Araminta had at once gone over to greet Mr Saul Quatt , who had , at her request , presided over the service in the local church — much to the chagrin of its incumbent , whose ruffled feathers Mrs Alderley had been obliged to smooth when she heard of the plan from him . |
| 10 | I 'm going to have a few words with the professor . ’ |
| 11 | At the end of the meal , Dominic came to have a few words with me . |
| 12 | I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I think I 'll have to have a few words with whoever has been saying this . |
| 14 | She 'd hopped into the living-room a few minutes after Sergeant Joe had gone out to have a few words with Archie Cousins . |
| 15 | A long line of reporters lined up dutifully to have a few words with him . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to have a few words with you , John . |
| 17 | He spotted her immediately and strolled across , stopping on the way to have a few words with the patron . |
| 18 | ‘ On the Thursday you return to Streatley , to maintain the myth of your father 's continuing business interests ; and perhaps to check a few details with Dr Lefeuvre . |
| 19 | He had waited until the sentry reached the tower at the end of his beat , knowing , after watching the man from the bailey , that the guard would pause to exchange a few words with another man-at-arms before they separated to retrace their steps . |
| 20 | He would have liked to exchange a few words with Cedric Downes at Oxford — surely a man suffering from the same kind of trouble ? |
| 21 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 22 | You can teach other members of your family how to take care of the patient in this basic way , or professional ‘ babysitters ’ who can come in to spend a few hours with the patient so that you can get away . |
| 23 | Then at the beginning of summer Maria wrote to say that she was coming to spend a few days with them . |
| 24 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 25 | So after giving details of my ‘ movements ’ to the police , I drove up to Nottingham to spend a few days with the family . |
| 26 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
| 27 | The business-inclined Whigs believed that victory in Europe would automatically secure our overseas interests : the land-owning Tories , with their traditional dislike of the high taxation needed to pay for a standing army , sought to achieve the same ends with peripheral maritime operations , carried out by the Navy , which could largely pay for themselves by taking other powers ' colonies and trading posts . |
| 28 | Between 1882 and 1894 he was also chairman of the Basic & Dephosphorizing Patents Co. , which was set up to safeguard the many patentees with interests in the dephosphorization process and the agricultural disposal of the phosphorus-rich basic slag . |