Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | A goalless first leg at Hillsborough had left the whiff of an upset mingling with the burgers and Bovril , but Wednesday cleared the air ruthlessly with four first-half goals in the space of 23 minutes . |
| 2 | The articled clerk then advised the wife to buy a small house in an unsuitable area with a mortgage in order to obtain mortgage relief , even though she had no taxable income against which she could claim relief . |
| 3 | We are aware , in the novels we read , both of an authorial identification with the leading character or the first-person narrator , and of material that might constitute an authorial judgement in that respect : but we do n't know what the verdict is . |
| 4 | In such an event , Radice , one of the leaders of the Italian Communist Party , summed up , ‘ If there is an imperialist aggression with the avowed objective of rolling back socialism , we would feel entirely absolved of any obligation of loyalty to the defensive character of NATO and take the side of the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 5 | An endearing creature with curly ringlets instead of fur , the Mimicke Dog was featured in Edward Topsell 's seventeenth-century Historie of Foure-Footed Beasts . |
| 6 | Mr Trimble added : ‘ It might be best to proceed , not in an adversarial courtroom manner , but in an inquisitorial procedure with the outcome being a report , part or all of which would be published . ’ |
| 7 | The duty to take reasonable care is confined to the period of 21 days after cancellation ( s72(8) ) , thereafter , he usually becomes an involuntary bailee with a duty to refrain from wilful damage . |
| 8 | Although the precise mechanism by which K + moves from cell cytosol to the lumen of the gastric gland is unclear , a number of mechanisms that link apical K + and Cl - transport have been proposed namely — solely electroneutral KCl cotransport , electroneutral KCl cotransport in parallel with a large Cl - conductance , K + movement by a population of K + -specific channels in parallel with apical Cl - channels , and simultaneous K + and Cl - movement mediated by an apical cotransporter with partial conductive properties . |
| 9 | The Swiss building is capped by a 104ft paper tower shaped like a castle of playing cards , and inside , an unfinished banquet with plates bearing the remains of real food has been frozen in varnish . |
| 10 | ( An attack from behind in an unlit alley with no witnesses and an Uzi is my idea of a fair fight . ) |
| 11 | ‘ An egg-white mousse with toffee sauce . ’ |
| 12 | The combination of bFGF given subcutaneously or by an intragastric route with sucralfate administered intragastrically did not significantly influence the reduction in the ethanol induced lesion area compared with that obtained with sucralfate alone ( Table I ) . |
| 13 | An Associated Schoolboy with Crystal Palace F.C. , he is actively interested in Athletics and after taking his ‘ O ’ levels he hopes to become a professional footballer . |
| 14 | Resorts : Kranjska Gora , just over Yugoslavia 's border with Austria , stages regular World Cup races and has limited advanced as well as intermediate and beginners ' slopes ; Bled is an historic town with pistes 20 minutes drive away ; Bohinj is a pretty village ; in the Balkans , Kopaonik 's purpose-built apartments are the cheapest of the cheap ; in Bulgaria : take your pick between neo-Alpine Borovets and purpose-built Pamporovo ; in Romania , Poiana Brasov . |
| 15 | It contains a verbatim account of an historic interview with Life President Dr Hastings Banda . |
| 16 | XSoft claims InConcert is the first product of its kind to manage people and work process in an organisation-wide setting with multivendor software and platform compatibility . |
| 17 | The burden of Nordhaus 's model is to suggest that a democratic economy will exhibit an inflationary bias with the gains from exploiting a ‘ fooled ’ electorate being a higher rate of inflation at point 3 than at point 5 . |
| 18 | I had the misfortune of sharing a tent with a compulsive masturbator called Ollie , an unfortunate-looking fellow with rocking-horse nostrils and a pale green complexion , who claimed to have reached orgasm eight times in a single afternoon . |
| 19 | These were fairly continuously reported over the months preceding Iraq 's invasion in September by the BBC monitoring service and by newspapers like The Times , which on 20 September , just three days before Iraq moved in , reported an Iranian attack with tanks and jets . |
| 20 | Eventually the Goblin runs out of energy and collapses in an exhausted pile with a silly grin on his face , or he crashes straight into a tree or other obstacle and ends up throttling himself with his chain . |
| 21 | He was an odd-job boy with Rank Film Services . |
| 22 | At the same time , between 12 and 14 IRA men selected to make the escape attempt were apparently preparing to blast an inside gate with some of the smuggled Semtex . |
| 23 | The types of work for which grants may be given are : the provision of a damp-proofing course , dealing with dry or wet rot , repairs or renewal of faulty floors , ceilings or roof , installing a hot and cold water supply , adding or installing a bathroom if one does not exist in the house , installing an inside lavatory with proper drainage , extending a very small kitchen , improving the heating system ( with in some cases a grant towards the cost of installing central heating ) , and roof insulation . |
| 24 | Coursework is an accelerated course in New Testament Greek to an advanced level with an examination in June , two exegeses on selected New Testament texts , a possible further two essays on one of the range of subjects mentioned in ( 1 ) above , and an exegetically and linguistically based dissertation on a New Testament passage of central interest to the candidate . |
| 25 | Discussions are at an advanced stage with a number of nationally-known retailers , and one retail DIY outlet has already confirmed that it will be renting a unit . |
| 26 | They formed galleries , which seemed so regular they might have been the honeycombed nestings of some breed of super-lice that had reached an advanced accommodation with their host . |
| 27 | Having been engaged in an undeclared war with China since 1937 Japan took advantage of the French defeat in 1940 both to close one of China 's last remaining links with the outside world , the Haiphong — Yunnan railway , and to begin her advance into Southeast Asia . |
| 28 | The most you can expect from us is an attempt to organize an orderly return with emphasis on some priorities . ’ |
| 29 | In both camps , there was agreement that an orderly succession with the Conservatives faring well would tend to favour Mr Baker . |
| 30 | This is seen both as a device for testing the seriousness of the teacher and thus his/her attitudes to the pupils themselves , and as a retributive routine for dealing in an orderly fashion with what they construe as insulting or demeaning . |