Example sentences of "with a [adv] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court appears to have taken the view that although the victim was staying overnight in the offender 's house , and therefore he had a degree of responsibility for her welfare , his responsibility was not so strict as that of a parent or other person with a longer lasting relationship with the victim , and that the degree of responsibility in this case did not justify the adoption of eight years as a starting point as opposed to the normal five years . |
| 2 | If there is regression towards the mean ( see below ) , an individual with high earnings may expect to have children with a lower earning capacity , and hence share his own higher earnings by making bequests . |
| 3 | If the earning potential of an asset goes up , people will be likely to switch to that asset from others with a lower earning potential . |
| 4 | He said that Riddle 's business was a sound concern with a steadily rising turnover and increasing profitability . |
| 5 | The combined impact of the Livonian War , the oprichnina , and the Crimean invasion of 1571 , together with a steeply rising tax burden and severe famine ravaged the central and western regions of Muscovy . |
| 6 | 1992 was ACE 's first full year with a properly functioning Brussels office and staff . |
| 7 | In Britain , where suspicion of the army as a possible instrument of tyranny together with a generally rising level of prosperity made recruits unusually hard to obtain , this element was prominent . |
| 8 | Even in the case of married applicants for joint mortgages , the Equal Opportunities Commission ( EOC ) found that 36 per cent of building societies in their study discriminated in some way against a couple with a higher earning wife ( EOC , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | The lack of administrative control from the centre during the Civil War together with a rapidly depreciating currency meant that taxation became a dwindling resource after 1917 . |
| 10 | He found a high IR/R ratio ( normally indicating high biomass ) for a site with low biomass with a rapidly regrowing sward . |
| 11 | The wings are pointed , light in colour on the underside , like the chest , with a gradually curving pattern of specks . |
| 12 | In some , the potential of TTT was wasted because support teachers were marginalized ; in others , highly experienced and qualified coordinators had to be content with a merely facilitating role . |
| 13 | But everyone needs support to deal with a highly demanding environment . |
| 14 | The Emigrant Advice Unit tours school throughout Northern Ireland with a hard hitting message aimed at showing young people that a new life in another country may not be as glamorous as they had imagined . |