Example sentences of "with [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 They also broke Gloucester 's hearts , because with rather less than five minutes of extra time to go , the home side were leading 18–15 .
2 Altogether , between 1761 and 1844 , there were more than 2,500 acts , dealing with rather more than four million acres of open fields .
3 Consequently , subjects were dealt with so intricately and thoroughly few ever read them .
4 The request that you have done me the honour to make , to receive the record of my voice , is one that I cheerfully comply with so far as lies in my power ; though I lament to say that the voice which I transmit to you is only the relic of an organ the employment of which has been overstrained .
5 What I found , though , was that what appeared to be a very good erm system from an ideal point of view was actually terribly hard to cope with so far as the teachers were concerned .
6 If I take it to the police the matter will be dealt with much sooner than if we leave it where it is and wait for them to call here .
7 Whilst paying lip service to the sporting values of the public schools , suburban man was busy with less physically and morally taxing forms of exercise .
8 It was a weakness that her father had left her with long ago and she had never conquered it .
9 Mutations at Lys22 suggest slight deleterious effects on operator recognition in vitro of the Glu and Ala mutations , with somewhat better than wild-type affinity for Arg substitution .
10 2a The pupil can identify the place value of a column or a digit in it for values of tenths , hundredths and thousandths ; 2b the pupil can represent in numerals a decimal number given in words ; 2c the pupil can represent in words a decimal number given in numerals ; 2d the pupil can order decimal numbers ; 2e the pupil can provide a decimal number which is between two given numbers in size ; 2f the pupil can represent a given decimal number on a number line or read one from a number line or scale ; 2g the pupil can understand relationships of the form 1.3 x 8 ( I x 8 ) + ( 0.3 x 8 ) ; 2h the pupil can represent a fraction in tenths or hundredths as a decimal ; 2i the pupil can represent a decimal with not more than two decimal places as a fraction .
11 The pupil can represent a decimal with not more than two decimal places as a fraction ( Example 90 ) .
12 She walked round the house , planning what she would take : this ornament to be packed in a shoe-box stuffed with wood-shavings and placed in the top drawer of that chest , that cane-chair to be left behind for the benefit of the Colonel 's successor , those curtains to be carefully arranged when the time came , with not more than one fold .
13 Tickets will be sold as in previous years with not more than two tickets per person .
14 In verbs , if the last syllable contains a short vowel and ends with not more than one consonant , that syllable will be unstressed , and stress will be placed on the preceding ( penultimate ) syllable .
15 If the final syllable contains a short vowel and the middle syllable contains a short vowel and ends with not more than one consonant , both final and middle syllables are unstressed and the first syllable is stressed :
16 The privatisation programme , it was proposed , would take place in three stages , with not less than 20 per cent of the republic 's assets in private hands by the end of 1992 .
17 a ) The affairs of the Society shall be managed by an Executive Committee of the Officers , together with not less than two and not more than twelve other members of the Society , at least one of whom must be a holder of the Medau Society 's Leadership Award .
18 a ) The affairs of the Society shall be managed by an Executive Committee of the Officers and the chairmen of the standing sub-committees , together with not less than two and not more than twelve other members representing all aspects of Medau activity , one of whom should be a representative of the Medau teachers elected from among their own number .
19 The affairs of the Society shall be managed by an Executive Committee of the Officers , together with not less than two and not more than twelve other members of the Society , at least one of whom must be a holder of the Medau Society 's Leadership Award .
20 He said some of the cases should be dealt with soon so that the principles for deciding who should be granted asylum ‘ can emerge and be tested on appeal ’ .
21 ‘ I tell you , boy , we are engaged with more even than I knew .
22 But what we are now faced with more clearly than in his other claims for the consequences of literacy is an argument based on socially relative judgement and ideology .
23 It seemed to me that the matrimonial question could have been dealt with more sympathetically and with greater understanding , as perhaps Winston Churchill could have handled it .
24 Letting go of past hurts will be dealt with more fully when we come to Chapter 9 .
25 In addition , if the industry concerned creates externalities , these may be dealt with more directly if it is state-owned .
26 Initially the males with slightly longer than average tails might have been fitter than average ; females who preferred to mate with them would have an advantage because they would produce better sons .
27 One sample is taken of the effluent , with both downstream and upstream samples of the river .
28 Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion .
29 ‘ It is better for these problems to be dealt with now rather than later .
30 Almost any native hardwood was used ( with often more than one type in a chair ) .
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