Example sentences of "with [art] [adj -er] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For the time he has parted with the nobler characteristics of his humanity for the sake of a planetary power of locomotion . |
| 2 | Aurigny does not compete with the bigger companies on the direct from Jersey or Guernsey to the UK . |
| 3 | He has me fetch the plastic bucket from under the sink , then returns to the caravan with the bigger bits in the bucket saying he has some letters to write . |
| 4 | I said , Well the men with the bigger books of twenty five percent , we could compensate them , you see ? |
| 5 | Though he does not develop the metaphor , Paul would , I think , agree with the fuller details to be found in I Peter : individual Christians are spiritual stones which go to make up the spiritual temple which is built on Christ ( I Pet . |
| 6 | Another ‘ scholarship girl ’ was shamefully treated by the rest of us because of her ( very slight ) Cockney accent , her generally ‘ non-U ’ turns of phrase , and her inability to deal with the simpler points of etiquette , whether at table or in the classroom . |
| 7 | The point is that as the laws do not focus on the results of corporate crime , the corporate criminal need only worry about relatively lenient punishment for breaking a particular regulation , and not be concerned with the wider consequences of that action . |
| 8 | The speaker 's sectional interests , as a businessman , are seen to coincide with the wider interests of everybody else . |
| 9 | To answer the hon. Gentleman 's other points — I hope , not taking too much time over it — the debt-on-wind-up provisions were originally linked , as I think the hon. Gentleman knows , with the wider provisions for limited price indexation . |
| 10 | Do n't confuse the environment with the wider systems of interest , which , although providing inputs and receiving outputs , exercise control over the system being considered , normally by setting the standards , rules and so on ; additionally , the wider system often provides the resources that are used by the subject system . |
| 11 | The more enduring issues will be concerned with making decisions based upon those statements and with the wider questions of who should be making them and in what way . |
| 12 | In the remainder of this chapter , therefore , I am concerned with the wider patterns of consensus and conflict in speaker-evaluation of the linguistic variants that we have studied , and I shall relate these to the concept of strong and weak ties in communities . |
| 13 | GM schools will be able to change their character if that is what parents clearly want and the change fits in with the wider needs of the local area . |
| 14 | The rest of the car will also stand up to hard use as well , and diesel cars tend to have bigger batteries and more powerful electrical systems to cope with the greater demands of starting . |
| 15 | Little shrubs like Genista hispanica or Hebe ‘ Broughton Dome ’ make compact green boulder shapes which will contrast with the looser forms of Genista lydia — smothered in acid yellow blooms in early summer — and silvery cotton lavender , , santolina . |
| 16 | J. G. Frazer in his monumental work on folklore in the Old Testament maintained that the belief that the gods revealed themselves and declared their will to mankind in dreams was widespread in antiquity ; and accordingly people resorted to temples and other sacred spots for the purpose of sleeping there and holding converse with the higher powers in visions of the night , for they naturally supposed that the deities or the deified spirits of the dead would be most likely to manifest themselves in places specially dedicated to their worship . |
| 17 | As with the higher grades of the French military , these man-management skills of the top-notch graduates are attractive to companies which consider it worthwhile ‘ buying out ’ graduates of state ‘ grandes écoles ’ . |
| 18 | With the higher populations of Amerindians in the past , such groups must have had a major effect on the structure of the forest . |
| 19 | He contrasted the lower plasma triglyceride levels and less evidence of atherosclerosis observed in the 1930s , with the higher levels of these features in the 1950s . |
| 20 | There is here a conspicuous contrast with the stricter rules under Federal legislation in the United States and with the duties imposed on trustees of unit trusts under the Financial Services Act . |
| 21 | Tigridias are taking over from the lilies while geraniums , argyranthemums , lime-green nicotianias , eucomis and trailing blue convolvulus have filled out rapidly and blend well with the softer colours of the herbs |
| 22 | After that , to the Air , there would be a pas de deux with the taller girls in the background . |
| 23 | I was ( I think you will understand ) initially dubious about a single 10″ driver in such a small box really delivering the goods ( especially with the lower notes on my 5-string ) but was certainly intrigued by the cabinet design , so I was looking forward to giving the little beast some stick on a couple of gigs … |
| 24 | The desire to create a pseudo-history of the movement 's afterlife may be good for business , and may have provided extra material for the book ( I refer to the Boston text , see pp. 10–13 ) but it is not in keeping with the purer aims of the Situationists outlined elsewhere in these and other texts . |
| 25 | His nephew , also called Timarchides , worked with the elder Timarchides on the Greek island of Delos , where he sculpted a portrait of the Roman businessman Gaius Ofellius Ferus . |
| 26 | This was followed by weeks of bargaining with the smaller parties over ministerial posts and policies . |
| 27 | However , a World Meteorological Organization analysis of the winter periods between 1969 and 1988 for the zone between 30 and 64 N reveals ozone decreases in the range 3 to 5 per cent , with the larger decreases at high latitudes . |
| 28 | A similar but more conventionally coloured filter , model 2207 , is still available in Eheim 's familiar green livery , along with the larger models in their range . |
| 29 | With the larger numbers to be attained , attempts will be made to correlate our findings with various clinical features and environmental factors , to analyse the meaning of the association we described the present study . |
| 30 | Sandwich all nine pieces together with buttercream , with the larger pieces at the bottom and the smaller pieces at the top . |