Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] with [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several documents gave rise to concern as they were wrestled with in the appropriate commissions , none more so than the all-important Dogmatic Constitution on the Church . |
| 2 | The Criminal Procedure ( Insanity and Unfitness to Plead ) 1991 was enacted as a result of major dissatisfaction with the way in which those found mentally unfit to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity were dealt with under the Criminal Procedure ( Insanity ) Act 1964 . |
| 3 | It was encouraging news , but the second session drew to a close with the vexed issues of religious freedom and the Jews , which were dealt with in the final two chapters of the document on ecumenism , still undecided — though Cardinal Bea insisted they would be discussed in due course . |
| 4 | Some of those suprasegmental features were dealt with in the previous chapter . |
| 5 | If the union found against him , that would indicate a minimum four-week ban , ruling him out of Wales 's opening home championship match against France next month — unless , that is , his case were dealt with within the next fortnight . |
| 6 | The committee observed at paragraph 18 that the fact that misappropriation of property was dealt with under the three separate heads of larceny , embezzlement and fraudulent conversion inevitably made for difficulty and complication . |
| 7 | Administratively Korea was dealt with by the Colonial Ministry until 1942 when the Home Ministry assumed responsibility . |
| 8 | On the eastern side of the county , indeed , where it lay along the Bedfordshire border , one acre in every two was dealt with by the Georgian planners . |
| 9 | On this occasion he was dealt with by the juvenile court for an offence of being a passenger in a stolen car or a car taken without authority and he received a conditional discharge . |
| 10 | I have even managed to persist so long that the final work on an article was dealt with by the third editor , but that owed something to my delays as well . |
| 11 | take it in the end but erm anyway I got this diploma and er then I was quite annoyed because erm Social Services then erm pu the Welfare for the Blind was dealt with by the Public Health Department and a vacancy occurred in the Public Health Department for erm Blind Welfare Officer , or at least a Welfare Officer for the Blind and I applied for it and erm , they er did n't make an appointment because they did n't er get in other applications but they di they did n't offer me the appointment . |
| 12 | The wooden panel was tampered with in the last century , probably while it was housed in the Museo dell'Accademia : at that time it was fitted with a hinged iron surround so that it could be swivelled . |
| 13 | However , the only person Leese was associated with in the 1930s who was later to become distinguished in his own field , was the popular medieval historian and expert on Gothic architecture , John Hooper Harvey . |