Example sentences of "[was/were] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Respondents were also asked how satisfied they were with each decision-making process , and this was measured using the same seven point scale . |
| 2 | ‘ Heinrich and I were with each other all the time . |
| 3 | His last live performances in this country were with Little Village , a happy collaboration between Cooder , John Hiatt , Nick Lowe and Jim Keltner . |
| 4 | Even the wars and internal reforms of Peter I , bitterly unpopular as they were with great masses of his people , could not eradicate the feeling that the Tsar was , in some ultimate sense , the father and protector of the ordinary Russian . |
| 5 | Rather they were with practical home skills and formal qualifications . |
| 6 | You were with that cold-eyed English envoy , Benstede , were you not ? ’ |
| 7 | The point is that Richard 's closest family associations , whether real or legendary , were with western France and not with England or Normandy . |
| 8 | My position on what 's happening in the women 's movement at the moment is that it 's really in dire need of reconstruction , and that there would be no possibility of having a sort of joint togetherness as it were with Black women and white women because of some of the things that have been mentioned already — the racism that exists , the fact that feminism as a guiding ideological force remains a sort of tool of imperialism . |
| 9 | They were with all the boring stuff at the beginning , the primitive stuff all the other kids used to run past to get to the Frasque fighter . |
| 10 | Yes , because of , we were in school together in Dutch and on the way home we were with Dutch friends , so we then , and we mostly spoke Dutch and now , since I , so it 's nearly , since now seven years have been , since I have gone to States , first year in eighty three , came back in eighty four , and since then we 've never , ever spoke Dutch . |
| 11 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 12 | He also discovered that , in the majority of cases , any sexual encounters that the patients had really had in childhood were with other children . |
| 13 | 'Cos they were with other birds . |
| 14 | Maybe we , it may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would have been saying to them . |
| 15 | Even Gould 's expert methods of preservation , vested as they were with such personal concern , were susceptible to the ravages of nature and a long sea voyage . |
| 16 | Ooh there were all all there were With one exception they were all male teachers . |
| 17 | So there they were with two conflicting stories . |
| 18 | Indeed , some went so far as to ‘ play dumb ’ when they were with male students because they knew that the men did n't like clever women . |
| 19 | While I 'm erm a look at that , I 've got some brief notes here from Norman er you were with financial services for some time yeah ? |
| 20 | The highest levels of protein sequence homology were with human tenascin type III repeat 11 , mouse tenascin type III repeat 9 and chicken tenascin type III repeat 7 with 36% , 35% and 37% identity respectively . |
| 21 | The companies ' main concerns , however , were with social control of their workforces outside the pits . |
| 22 | Both his marriages were with French noble-women — Beatrice ( d. 1320 ) , daughter of Raoul de Clermont-Nesle , constable of France , and Marie de St Pol ( d. 1377 ) daughter of Guy de Chàtillon , count of St Pol , butler of France . |
| 23 | ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses . |
| 24 | We certainly were with British Caledonian . |
| 25 | ICI Fibres ' beginnings were with British Nylon Spinners [ BNS ] which was owned equally by ICI and Courtaulds and had grown out of a wartime industry . |
| 26 | The chicks are only a few days old , but these parents are obviously more relaxed with them than the Barnys were with any of their offspring . ( ) |
| 27 | He was at the mercy of crack-brained adults just the same as they were with crazy Sylvester . |
| 28 | He ended up as Prince Bishop of Durham in 1752 where his saintliness ( he was nicknamed ‘ The Beauty of Holiness ’ ) made him a rare figure amongst the lax Georgian episcopate , concerned largely as it was with political intrigue and careerism . |
| 29 | The report called for the debt strategy to be broadened to include debt concessions for highly indebted middle-income countries , such as Poland , whose main debt was with official creditors . |
| 30 | It always used to go out of tune and I thought it was the tuners , but in fact the trouble was with that old Gibson vibrola — a terrible thing , really cheap . |