Example sentences of "the [noun pl] with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Big old American cars pushed their way through the crowds with deranged faces pressed against their windows . |
2 | He spread an artist 's folio before her , untied the ribbons with delicate fingers , and invited her to lay it open . |
3 | On television , a most useful source open to the writer today but denied to those of earlier generations , are the programmes with historical settings . |
4 | I fill the reels with nightly squirts of random TV " traffic . |
5 | Such provisions require the most careful drafting if they are to achieve their purpose ; and have not always received it , thereby facing the courts with difficult questions of interpretation . |
6 | She filled up all the blanks with unmanifested perfections , interpreting him as she interpreted the works of Providence and accounting for seeming discords by her own deafness to the higher harmonies . |
7 | Give shelter to the birds with golden throats |
8 | diverts the birds with erratic crumbs . |
9 | In these forests , the number of bird species feeding on any particular tree was found to be correlated with its size and frequency but the Lauraceae with large fruits obviously have fewer visitors , though the birds with big gapes tend to be generalists and take fruits of all sizes . |
10 | Allan Hewson kicked the goals for NZ and Ollie Campbell did his best for the Lions with four kicks . |
11 | By refreshing the pixels with new instructions , images can be made to change and if they do so sufficiently quickly , one result can be animation , computer-generated motion . |
12 | His body is still here in the woods with three others killed in the same action . ’ |
13 | During his time with the IRD he provided the Russians with useful details of its staff and operations . |
14 | His three criteria for identifying the modifications as chemical erosion as opposed to physical abrasion were that the damage was localized and not evenly spread over the whole surface of the bones , there was greater erosion of the tips of the teeth with some teeth not damaged at all , and discoloration spread into the re-entrant angles of the vole teeth . |
15 | The sun was so low it looked through the dirty window at her , touching the reeds with golden fingers so that they were bright yellow . |
16 | Groups of strikers assembled and disbanded , led their trooper escorts on pointless all-night drives in caravans , painted broom handles to resemble gun barrels and pointed them out of windows , and generally tried to confuse the authorities with multiple feints and parries . |
17 | Liberty is proposing regulations , including a rule requiring anyone installing cameras to supply the authorities with valid reasons for doing so . |
18 | Of course , the states with good measurements tend to be the ones that had suddenly realised they might run out of capacity , and taken action to avoid that . |
19 | A second round of voting , in constituencies which had not been able to complete their quota of candidates , was announced for May 8 ; in this round , the candidates with most votes would be declared elected , even if they received less than the 30 per cent required for election in the first round . |
20 | It seems likely that the future of the cooperatives will depend greatly on the identification and training of managers from within the local communities , which would not only strengthen the ties with these communities but also provide useful employment opportunities . |
21 | Wood and Gipps ( 1982 ) pose an interesting dilemma for decision-makers allocating resources : do they give resources to the schools with poor results , thus penalising the good ones ( from which the good schools may learn the best way to get resources ) , or do they reward the good schools and let the poor ones suffer ? |
22 | It would be a resounding triumph for LMS were all the schools with more funds to do better , and those with less funds to do no worse , than in the past . |
23 | From the start , go down the ladder , grab the crate and kill the green blob , jump down the hole into the water , swim over to the ladder and get out , avoiding the workman in the process , continue right , kill the blob and move into the ladder , climb up and collect the records ( avoiding the broken ones ) , dive down the hole , swim right to the open/close door then go up the ladder , pick up the crate and jump out the open gap onto the railway line and lob the crate at the workman , move left over the trains ( killing the blobs with spare crates if you wish ) until you reach the end . |
24 | The vivacity and brilliant colours of the mobile forms draw the spectator into the work , also tempting her to identify the shapes with external references . |
25 | He replaced the defectors with four technocrats . |
26 | The Queensferry side blitzed the Cobras with 16 goals in the last period to notch their highest total since the club reformed last year . |
27 | He was filmed by video security cameras leaving the shops with two youths . |
28 | That 's fine , because there are lots of shoes in the shops with low heels to choose from . |
29 | The chair with the wobbly leg , the dented saucepans , the knives with loose handles , all were gathered up and restored if possible , mainly by Nigel , who , when I produced new casualties almost weekly as the season wore on , would sigh and say patiently , ‘ Put it on my bench , darling . ’ |
30 | The investors suspect that accelerated payments are the price Mr Outhwaite has had to pay to settle the disputes with other syndicates . |