Example sentences of "with a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He went on from Harrow ( County Boys ' ) to Peterhouse , Cambridge , leaving with a first-class honours degree in history .
2 Early last year , in an interview with a low-circulation Blues fanzine , Bowyer stated that the current political climate in Northern Ireland would make it almost impossible for Catholics to cross the sectarian divide and play for Linfield .
3 The domestic drinks market today offers a far wider range of products to choose from , while production has become more concentrated in major ‘ drinks ’ companies with a wide drinks portfolio .
4 Rather than copy this ‘ accidental ’ compound radius , Fender have chosen to equip the reissue with a simple 12″ radius board and .098″ wide medium jumbo frets — big , but not as big as the .110″ wide ‘ jumbo bass frets ’ referred to by the man himself .
5 Indeed , societies have traditionally operated with a liquid assets ratio in the range of 15–20 per cent .
6 The Lay Observer has been replaced with a Legal Services Ombudsman with rather wider powers than the Law Observer under provisions contained in Part II of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 .
7 IBM Corp 's vast personal computer contract with the former Soviet Ministry of Education ended early with just 15,000 machines installed in schools and only 75% of those paid for , IBM Europe chief Renato Riverso told the Wall Street Journal ; he also said that IBM has yet to receive its first payment on its $150m contract to provide Aeroflot with a modern reservations system .
8 Bosnia-Hercegovina and Macedonia favoured a third option ; a " community " of republics with a federal police force and army , a single currency and full monetary union , but with each member of the community also retaining its own army , and holding an equitable proportion of the federal offices and services .
9 She was vaguely aware at one stage in the proceedings of Alexander , with Nina hovering at his elbow , standing in a huddle with a tall plain-clothes detective .
10 Audience with a stylish blues king
11 Easy way to sort them out this with with trig or with Pythagoras you 're only working with a right angles triangle .
12 The ROK army had been occupied throughout the winter in containing guerrillas ; they were under the direction of North Korea and occasionally obtained arms supplies from the north , as with a recent arms shipment landed on the east coast , the bulk of which was confiscated before it could be used inland .
13 To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme .
14 As an academic critic and university teacher specializing in modern literature and literary theory , I spend much or my time these days reading books and articles that I can barely understand and that cause my wife ( a graduate with a good honours degree in English language and literature ) to utter loud cries of pain and nausea if her eye happens to fall on them .
15 BANKRUPT antique toys dealer Jeffrey Levitt is threatening to rock the Tory party with a major bribes scandal by naming a Mr Fixit in his £15 million fraud trial .
16 Middlesbrough company Chemoxy was on the verge of clinching a five-year supply agreement with a major chemicals group .
17 Today almost every country with a developed securities market has some form of controls outlawing insider dealing and with the introduction of the EC Directive on Insider Dealing every country in the EEC will be required to adopt minimum legislative prohibitions .
18 Letter packets , Small Packets and Printed Papers with contents valued over £270 : Top portion of green label CI together with a non-adhesive customs declaration form , C2/CP3 ( PP70 ) , plus an accompanying despatch note CP2 should be completed .
19 President Bush proposed a near-doubling of federal spending on airport expansion over the next five years — but would pay the bill with a controversial departures tax .
20 This replaced the jacket with a windcheater and the kepi with a Chicago-style police cap .
21 Local authorities , including Buckinghamshire , Hereford and Worcester , Coventry , Mid Glamorgan and several London Boroughs , are co-operating with a continuing police investigation .
22 In order to supply a comprehensive background to our experience with a Computerised Personnel Information System ( CPIS ) it is important to tell you something of the Personnel and Data Processing functions at Parker .
23 When the first parade passed off without serious incident ( but with a massive police presence ) , the Portadown Orangemen reaffirmed their determination to go through the Tunnel on the Twelfth .
24 Brian Degas and Harry Robertson who devised , wrote and produced SPECIALS will discuss their new series with a senior police officer of national standing , and with members of the cast .
25 GH-K are the only club in the relegation zone with a positive points differential : indeed , only league leaders Melrose have scored more points than them this season .
26 She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself .
27 You 're waiting and you 're thinking Er and this is particularly the case with a large goods vehicle , you 'll be sitting waiting to go and there 's a lovely gap and you think Can I ?
28 My two Oscars are large active fish that share a purpose-built tank , with a large 12″ plec , a 7″ Black Shark , and a pair of Blue Acaras .
29 Well if there is water in the gutter , as there was in the Strand , you can create a remarkably similar effect with a fast sports car .
30 Abergele boosted their Division Two title prospects with a maximum points mauling of bottom team Menai Bridge to move into second place .
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