Example sentences of "with [adj] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aspirations to elegance , with well-dressed tables and crystal chandeliers , are instantly destroyed if the carpet screams at the guests . |
| 2 | My friend Lindsey said I was consumed with earthy desires and unable to reach the higher planes . |
| 3 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 4 | Firstly , active and stabilised dune systems with irregular or moundy landforms comprise dune ridges and hillocks up to 30 metres high but , more usually , 5 metres high and 10 to 20 metres broad with intervening hollows and channels . |
| 5 | ‘ That kid came back with painted toenails and was very distressed . ’ |
| 6 | They were heavily made up , with painted cheeks and scarlet lipstick ; each of their noses was pierced with a single diamond stud . |
| 7 | On either side of the front path a knot garden had been planted with low hedges and tufts of tiny blossom . |
| 8 | It had been landscaped with low hills and narrow walks , with tiny underlit pools , small temples , carefully-placed banks of shrub and stone , shady willows , cinnamon trees and delicate wu-tong . |
| 9 | One of them was the very real concern that , with low birthrates and high levels of immigration , particularly of unskilled Russians , the Baltic peoples might become minorities in their own republics . |
| 10 | The transformation , including an area with low tables and cushions for the seriously supple , is impressive . |
| 11 | The scales are armed with low granules and simple spines . |
| 12 | For those females who had concentrated on love affairs rather than their studies , graduating with low grades and low status was bound to be distressing , giving rise to depression and even thoughts of suicide . |
| 13 | And , although nobody wishes to be exploited with low wages and very difficult conditions , it is frankly better to find the ways and means of presenting yourself somehow , than not perform at all . |
| 14 | Some 250 family plots had been carved out , with low walls and marble plinths . |
| 15 | The National Child Development Study report on disadvantaged children identified children from one-parent families with low incomes and poor housing as less likely to be successful at school than other children ( Wedge and Prosser , 1973 ) . |
| 16 | He said that social security benefits , which are tied to movements in the Retail Price Index , would reflect the change , but that he recognised its particular impact on people with low incomes and therefore Peter Lilley would take it into account when benefits were uprated next year . |
| 17 | Two urban practices with eight doctors and combined list size of 16300 patients . |
| 18 | In Germany the Bundestag ( lower house of parliament ) gave its approval on Dec. 2 by 543 votes to 17 with eight abstentions and the Bundesrat ( upper house ) did so unanimously on Dec. 18 [ for Bundestag 's first reading in October see p. 39158 ] . |
| 19 | He founded the Collinge business , which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with eight salons and two training schools . |
| 20 | On November 1st Scott and Oates and six more men left Cape Evans with eight sledges and eight ponies . |
| 21 | An undated ducal warrant survives ordering William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough to meet Gloucester at Doncaster with eight horses and accompany him to London . |
| 22 | An undated ducal warrant survives ordering William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough to meet Gloucester at Doncaster with eight horses and accompany him to London . |
| 23 | Two old cars drew up with eight children and two anxious-looking mothers inside . |
| 24 | In his maiden Test in 1972 , he top-scored in both innings and took five wickets , an all-round performance he was able to sustain for the whole of his Test career of 58 consecutive matches , scoring almost 3,600 runs with eight centuries and taking 141 wickets at 32 with fast-medium ( or , as in 1973–4 when he had an outstanding series , off-spin ) bowling . |
| 25 | And on his debut for Wales , he set two new records with eight goals and 24 points in the 68–0 defeat of Papua New Guinea at Swansea . |
| 26 | He was said to be comfortable in Leeds General Infirmary with facial injuries and fractures . |
| 27 | 53 ( 29.3% ) of the 181 disabled subjects had unmet needs for aids to allow independence in activities of daily living — namely , 43% of subjects ( 41/95 ) with progressive disorders and 14% of subjects ( 12/86 ) with non-progressive disorders . |
| 28 | distinctions should be drawn between sole practitioners working on their own at home and those with assistant solicitors and a number of branch offices ; |
| 29 | Following consultation with Assistant Managers and Officer members in Bank of Ireland throughout the country in respect of the rumoured implementation of Performance Related Pay , it was agreed that the Bank be contacted for the purpose of elaborating on the views as expressed by the members at those meetings . |
| 30 | Because of this close association between stacks and subroutine linkage , some computers provide hardware stacks to deal with subroutine calls and returns . |