Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the buyer 's terms of purchase might contain a provision to deal with late delivery : ( a ) If the Seller fails to deliver the goods in accordance with the terms of this contract , the Buyer is entitled to terminate the contract with immediate effect . |
| 2 | Down below , in the gallery below him and Hasan , the Husayn twins and Khan were dancing round a case stuffed with priceless porcelain . |
| 3 | Ooh could do a bit swapping with some of those could n't you ? |
| 4 | The tapes , the same ones I have back at Mr Shah 's cumin-scented hotel , neatly stacked on a shelf made from a tea-chest draped with Somali cloth . |
| 5 | For example , a chimp may learn an association between poking a stick into termite mounds and extracting a stick covered with edible termites . |
| 6 | Centre left The posture of a dinosaur compared with that of a living reptile |
| 7 | In 1576 Thomas Cherrington complained in the Queen 's Council of the Marches , that Thurston Woodcock , lord of Meason , had assembled a gang armed with long staffs and billhooks , and had forcibly ploughed and then enclosed a piece of his waste ground with a ditch . |
| 8 | To this end , we must inculcate in our students not only enabling skills such as fluency in English , particularly written English , IT competence , and the ability to communicate but also creative , problem-solving skills — the phrase that is most often used is ‘ transferable skills ’ — which include a willingness to engage with new concepts and techniques . |
| 9 | Here was the suggestion of the spreading fan of an eminent Victorian , a beard clotted with high-flown phrases and guilty secretions , a beard of mad power that then faded at the edges into the ineffectualness of a declining constitutional monarchy . |
| 10 | A trail marked with simple stone arches every half mile or so leads to Las Ruinas on top of each , but it 's easy to lose yourself in the maze of secondary trails which weave between the small fields . |
| 11 | The general meeting elects the council of the exchange , a supervisory board , a board dealing with ethical questions , and also appoints the officers of the exchange . |
| 12 | a board prepared with black indian ink over a china clay surface . |
| 13 | Rather than dreaming primarily being psychologically necessary — a response dealing with occasional neurotic erotic impulses during sleep — they argued that it is in fact the outcome of an automatic , pre-programmed neural process . |
| 14 | On top of that Hamilton has been overseeing three and a half hours of live television in a time-slot littered with failed ventures . |
| 15 | Health Unions claim twenty people died in London because a computer dealing with 999 calls broke down . |
| 16 | And there , across a field filled with long grass and butterflies , were the Syrian tanks . |
| 17 | Gregory and Lock were arrested at Bangkok 's Don Muang international airport on February 6 when police said they found a condom filled with 150 grams of heroin . |
| 18 | Lock and a companion , Sandra Gregory , 27 , from Aberdeenshire , were arrested at Bangkok 's Don Muang airport on 6 February after police found a condom filled with 150 grams of heroin in the woman 's body . |
| 19 | I am a male working with young children under eight years old and have been involved , to a greater or lesser degree for almost ten years . |
| 20 | It is a privilege to work with such dedicated enthusiasts — but — we still need more group members in the Midlands . |
| 21 | Traditionalism , manners , morality , a conservatism coupled with massive bricks of prayer . |
| 22 | It was at , it was at the place where the football where you got us a grant playing with those little scum . |
| 23 | And there in the middle of the desert , in a tent hung with persian carpets , were the ubiquitous tissues and the briefcase . |
| 24 | For instance , he 'll write a guitar part for a guitar strung with six E strings , just the same note all the way across the neck . |
| 25 | They giggled with bagels in a park strewn with dog-shit and broken bottles , and pretended it was New York . |
| 26 | They went in behind Sir George , who waved his huge cone of light around the dark , cramped , circular space , illuminating a semi-circular bay window , a roof carved with veined arches and mock-mediaeval ivy-leaves , felt-textured with dust , a box-bed with curtains still hanging , showing a dull red under their pall of particles , a fantastically carved black wooden desk , covered with beading and scrolls , and bunches of grapes and pomegranates and lilies , something that might have been either a low chair or a prie-dieu , heaps of cloth , an old trunk , two band boxes , a sudden row of staring tiny white faces , one , two , three , propped against a pillow . |
| 27 | And it should be remembered that despite a tremendous volume of criticism that heralded the Bennett appointment as the Commandant of Pathfinder Force , it was but a murmur compared with that when he was appointed AOC of No 8 ( PFF ) Group at the tender age of 31 . |
| 28 | She was wearing carpet slippers with pink pom-poms on the front , a wrap-around cotton housecoat tied in the middle , like Mary Ann 's , and a headscarf bulging with sausage-like curlers . |
| 29 | Harrods is building a shipwreck to litter with some 3,000 urns , bowls and vases , priced from £50 to £25,000 . |
| 30 | At Warwick last Saturday , Storm Alert confirmed himself a horse to follow with another impressive success , and at Newbury tomorrow stablemate Country Member can sustain his own progress with a win in the Lionel Vick Handicap Chase . |