Example sentences of "with [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although some Tory rebels claim their constituents fear intolerable pressure on homes and social services , others agree with Labour that the scheme is elitist , unfair and unworkable .
2 Although some Tory rebels claim their constituents fear intolerable pressure on homes and social services , others agree with Labour that the scheme is elitist , unfair and unworkable .
3 ‘ We 're in the process of replacing them with beta-carotene and the packaging will be changed to indicate that . ’
4 The young man stood for a moment on an overhanging ledge of the bank , looking down at the water ; the dog swam round and round below ; the man 's body was flecked all over with light and the shadow patterns of leaves , so that he seemed some human extension of the place .
5 Outdoors , there is space , but there may be problems with light if the occasion is held during hours of darkness as well as uncertainties about the weather .
6 This distinguished between the temporary unemployment of skilled workers in periods of depression and the permanent underemployment of others in a labour market overstocked with workers with limited or no skills .
7 The term ‘ special children ’ immediately brings to mind certain groups of children : those with limited or no sight who can be provided with materials in an appropriate form — books in large print , books to be read with trained finger-tips , books to be heard ; those with hearing impairment who can fully utilize print and picture materials but who may not be given access to music ( the value of such access is demonstrated by the career of the distinguished percussionist Evelyn Glennie ) .
8 Firstly , a company would only be able to issue preference shares with limited or no voting rights up to 50% of its issued share capital and , if the preference dividends were not paid for three years , the shares would then acquire full voting rights .
9 Farming areas having permanent natural handicaps , viz. poor land with limited or no potential for increased production except at excessive cost .
10 NEVER use iron or aluminium cookware with citrus because the juice reacts with the metal .
11 But in these cases , the cylindrical columns are replaced by slender vaulting shafts with tiny or no capitals and arcade piers with no break of any kind before the arch .
12 The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " .
13 Combined in a nosegay with love-that-lies-bleeding and a sprig of maidenhair fern , spring brides should find it a piquant bouquet .
14 They should aim to enable individuals to use their personal emotional and intellectual resources to modify their attitudes and behaviour and to learn new social skills so as to achieve a stable way of life with diminished or no use of alcohol .
15 An example was ‘ Bloody Friday ’ , 21st July 1972 , when the Provisional IRA exploded twenty-two bombs in Belfast with slight or no warnings and killed 16 people and injured 120 others .
16 Other comparisons of the two systems , by Reynolds and Sullivan ( 1987 ) , Sutherland and Gallagher ( 1987 ) , and by Steedman ( 1983 ) , are inconclusive on the grounds that they are not comparing like with like but the outcomes of a well established and resourced system with one still grappling with its identity and purpose .
17 The room was decorated in quiet tabby-cat colours , with style- and a purpose .
18 I am sitting with Deee-Lite and a couple of their American press agents in a modest Manhattan restaurant called The Savoy , and I am already feeling unqualified for inclusion in this company .
19 The remarkable correlation remained a mystery , because the hedgerow thirty yards ahead of the two horsemen exploded with musket-fire and the Lieutenant 's horse collapsed , shot in the chest .
20 Selim did not have the power to punish the rebels , and in 1798 he made peace with Pazvant-oglu and a year later permitted the janissaries to return to Belgrade .
21 The under surfaces are all pale yellow , the eye frosted with black while the pupil is a very narrow , perpendicular black line . ’
22 God has gone ahead of us to provide , in the suffering and death of his Son , all the special grace we may individually need to cope with evil and the abuse of love .
23 Second , to provide that existing conditions on a mineral planning permission can be changed with reduced or no compensation payable , provided the changes do not affect certain fundamental elements of the permission .
24 When Ace arrived back at the hospital with Petion- and the Doctor , she found Howard talking animatedly , but not entirely cheerfully , to a hawk-faced man in Marine uniform and what she thought of as a Smokey-bear hat .
25 There was enough space for a retired Brigadier , who handled ecclesiastical appointments , and a higher executive officer in charge of the Crown Office , dealing with ceremonial and the passing of documents under the Great Seal .
26 It is a strenuous physical effort to scale on a good spring day , but in the pouring rain , amidst hailing bullets , laden with uniform and the tools of war …
27 Manufacturing operator Jason Hailes has completed a 60-day Prince 's Trust programme which involves community projects concerned with caring and the environment .
28 The Forcibles stood silently by the door , studying the departing customers — and exchanging particularly cold stares with Ten-huc and the pirates as they sauntered out .
29 With creepy-crawly and the root ,
30 The stem , 2–2½ft tall , is also fused with blue while the long-stalked , heart-shaped basal leaves are , by contrast , plant green .
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