Example sentences of "interfere with [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disinfectants act on bacteria in two main ways namely as cell toxins poisoning or destroying the cell or by interfering with their metabolism . |
| 2 | Twenty six ( 46% ) of the 56 respondents described their pain as a minor nuisance , 23 ( 41% ) as moderately severe , and six ( 11% ) as interfering with their activities . |
| 3 | They believe the Western world is always interfering with their natural resources and they are now telling us how to manage ours " . |
| 4 | They admitted interfering with her gold teeth , but denied she was kept prisoner , made to sleep on the floor with only two sheets and kept without food . |
| 5 | A few minutes later , Linda , a slice of cake in her hand , slipped out of the kitchen and ran up the stairs , thinking to ask Sergeant Joe if the poor young woman with a sprain wanted her shoes polished , although at the moment the eating of the cake was interfering with her spit . |
| 6 | It is this increased amount of aluminium that may damage the heart by interfering with its electrical activities . |
| 7 | These stain hair without interfering with its basic structure . |
| 8 | You keep the line dressed and straight behind the float and a certain tension at the point where the float tip protrudes from the surface so that the slightest movement of your wrist just lifts the float fractionally without interfering with its progress downstream and you watch it lift slightly and settle and feel in your bones — if you 've executed the hold-back right — that it will surely sink to a fish before travelling another inch . |
| 9 | Menzies was querulous , an ache in the head was interfering with his thoughts . |
| 10 | He is very strict , and would dismiss me if he found out I 'd been interfering with his books . |
| 11 | The older boy was finishing a letter to his father in which the news of his downfall was carefully translated into a voluntary withdrawal from activities which were interfering with his studies . |
| 12 | Radio waves emitted from his apparatus were being reflected from the walls of his laboratory back on to the apparatus and were interfering with his measurements . |
| 13 | ( 3 ) That the existence of pending proceedings in a court of superior jurisdiction was a factor to be taken into account by a judge in deciding how in the interests of justice to exercise his powers to regulate proceedings in his own court ; that the district judge had properly assessed the situation and had not erred in refusing to postpone the trials in his court until after the High Court trial ; and that , accordingly , there had been no ground for interfering with his decision ( post , pp. 265F–G , 266G ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Much the same … missing Garry badly while trying to put up a brave pretence of not interfering with his work . |
| 15 | But when film star Telly Savalas sued over a gossip columnist 's unjustifiable remarks about hang-overs interfering with his work , he was awarded £34,000 . |
| 16 | ‘ What the hell are you up to , ’ he shouts at me , ‘ interfering with my private phone calls ’ He was a white as a sheet . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I need a solicitor — well Legal Aid — I mean I 'm being done for — you know — interfering with my daughter — incest they call it do n't they ? ’ |
| 18 | Interfering with my arrangements . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't like them interfering with my normal business day . ’ |
| 20 | I said well what you do in your private life it 's up to you if you want to get drunk and you want to spend money then that 's fine but once you step over that clock tower I said and you start interfering with my work it 's a different thing , I said well I 've and I 've just said nothing because although you ai n't worked right , at least you 've sort of you 've work in this factory sort of in the morning , you 've got over it but |
| 21 | ‘ Is n't this interfering with your own writing ? ’ |
| 22 | It uses the left side of our brain to project past failures , thus actively interfering with our ability to overcome the negative impact that we face . |
| 23 | To safeguard against this sort of distortion , yet without basically interfering with our random system , we can build in a sort of screening device which is called stratification . |
| 24 | A SFWP statement responded : ‘ Companies engaged in the robbery of our mineral and oil wealth should stop interfering with our democratic system in the hope of increasing their political influence ’ . |
| 25 | But if I went to Joyce and told him that his men were doing something that was n't fair to the police , trying us too hard or interfering with our time off , he 'd have his men right off that job in half an hour and there 'd be no grumbling . ’ |
| 26 | As I said last week , he c he er made it appear to the British that he s sought to control the channel ports and with a large navy was then capable of interfering with our trade and in in indeed mounting an invasion , and that brought Britain into a war which could not be ended until the Germans sued for surrender and vice versa . |
| 27 | She kissed the air inches from his face in order not to smudge her lipstick or otherwise interfere with her make-up . |
| 28 | She thought that she looked good , and she felt bloody good , and she was n't going to let a telephone call from the bank manager interfere with her seldom-found excitement . |
| 29 | Multinationals care not a jot for new political perspectives unless they interfere with their ability to milk the sacred cow of dollardom . |
| 30 | the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms . |