Example sentences of "with [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Kate could n't even justify it by saying it was a boy Lizzy loved , whom her daughter had been with for a long time and so sex was a natural progression .
2 ‘ And since it 's been over and finished with for a long time , there does n't seem any point in discussing it , especially right now .
3 ‘ Each Schmincke stick is satisfyingly substantial to hold ; not so thin and fragile that the slightest pressure will result in breakages and big enough to work with for a considerable length of time .
4 However , vendors rarely find this acceptable , if only because the fact that the guarantee is then given to a third party may mean it has to be dealt with as a separate note in the balance sheet .
5 The case is of course silent as to the neighbour principle since it predates Donoghue v. Stevenson , but there is no reason to doubt that the facts of the case , if they were to occur again , could be dealt with as a straightforward application of the neighbour principle .
6 The change has been dealt with as a prior year adjustment : £64.267m has been credited to group revenue reserve and the same amount debited to investment realisation profits .
7 Books were obviously supernumerary , and he began jettisoning them until he got down to those two which every guest on ‘ Desert Island Discs ’ is furnished with as a bare , civilised minimum : the Bible and Shakespeare .
8 The procedural aspects of actions by and against firms are dealt with as a necessary adjunct to this .
9 Hays attempted to calm things down , stating that ‘ the unfortunate Mr Reid should be dealt with as a diseased person — not be censured or shunned ’ .
10 I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate .
11 Gatsby uses his money to try and attract Daisy , whom he was in love with as a young man , although she later married someone else .
12 However , this should not lead to any particular problem , and it can be dealt with as a normal cable break .
13 A version of this suggestion has already been met with as a possible explanation for some DOEs when it was suggested ( p. 159 ) that an expectancy of a reinforcer evoked by a sample stimulus will be more likely to persist in memory across the delay of a delayed MTS experiment than will a representation of the sample stimulus itself .
14 Denis was furious ; rage and humiliation at being toyed with like a small child drove out all caution .
15 That scheming , cheating harlot , whose son you have consorted with like a cheap jade .
16 The product is a very pure natural water from an underground spring with with a clean taste , high in calcium and low in nitrates .
17 On the social side , the desire to keep farmers on the land should be dealt with via a direct income support or other aid measures , such as voluntary set aside , which do not distort the price mechanism , for a transition period .
18 If the amendment is seconded by another person who has not spoken on the original motion , the Chairman must accept it as a new motion , subject to the provisos that the amendment is not a simple negative of the motion ; is relevant ; does not cover ground that has been dealt with under a previous amendment ; and is not frivolous nor illegal .
19 The European Commission yesterday duly called for total deregulation of telephone service in the European Community by 1998 and asked telecommunications ministers to endorse that goal at their Council of Ministers on May 10 : the UK is the only European Community country where the body responsible for installing phones and running the service has been forced to make room for a competitor , but national territorial monopolies were not suited to the needs of a single Community market and technological advances meant they were no longer justified in any case , the Commission said ; Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann said the Commission would soon produce another paper on whether development of telephone networks should also be dealt with under a free market system , adding that the Commission believed companies from outside the Community should be free to reap the benefits of deregulation as long as EC firms were able to do likewise on those firms ' home territory ; but the Commission pulled back from recommending that large companies be free to lease spare capacity on the networks of utilities such as gas from the start of next year .
20 It will protect the wearer and unit he is with from a single magic attack per turn , but only works on a 4 , 5 or 6 ( ie , as a standard Dispel card ) .
21 Each of the four main types of surfactant ( anionic , cationic , non-ionic , and amphoteric ) is dealt with in a separate chapter , and there are additional short chapters on speciality and polymeric surfactants .
22 Each topic should be dealt with in a separate paragraph as paragraphing focuses attention on the important points in their correct order .
23 The built-in functions and the macro language are dealt with in a separate tome which is best left to the initiated !
24 Safe Travel to School : the 1992/93 Roads and Transport Capital Budget includes a new item for a programme of works to improve safety for children on journeys to/from school and this is now dealt with in a separate section of the Plan .
25 Pensions are usually dealt with in a separate schedule to the agreement .
26 If there are , they should be dealt with in a separate statement , bearing in mind the requirement for exchange of witness statements .
27 As far as the exceptions to the policy is concerned , we , again I I would n't say we had a strong feeling on this , but on balance I think it that if it is considered that they are needed they would probably be better dealt with in a separate policy .
28 The matter was dealt with in a private Act .
29 First , physics itself is dealt with in a disparate way .
30 The cash all in coins is to go towards the £14,000 appeal to create a child protection suite in Darlington , where child abuse victims and women sex assault victims can be dealt with in a pleasant atmosphere .
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