Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] with [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decline of liberal institutions and the use of bureaucratic authoritarianism were consistent with the interests of German industry . |
| 2 | Reductions in morbidity were consistent with the findings for mortality , but fewer data were available . |
| 3 | In a Commons statement on Nov. 30 , 1989 , Nicholas Ridley , the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , said that the government took the view that the concessions were consistent with the terms of EC approval and that these arrangements were the least which were necessary to secure the successful transfer of the Rover Group to the private sector . |
| 4 | However , the parties would have access to a specialized competition policy tribunal ( a restructured MMC ) , if they were unhappy with the conclusions of the Office of Fair Trading , and further rights of appeal to the High Court on points of law , on the interpretation of evidence , and on the level of fines . |
| 5 | But Jannie was used to friends , particularly childless ones , who were good with the children to the point of dedication , and who a month later called Gawain Damian and Damian Adrian , or who sent the six-year-old Gawain a pull-along elephant for his birthday , and gave Damian a velvet party frock , in the belief that he was called Deborah and was a girl . |
| 6 | Not even all Conservative politicians were happy with the implications of the notion of compulsory sales , particularly as they might affect rural areas , and certain safeguards have had to be incorporated . |
| 7 | First , it is apparent how little the foreign Office and Chiefs of Staff were concerned with the problems of the British economy . |
| 8 | There was nothing in the Bill which was in any way dramatic or spectacular , he said , rather it was the culmination of much work and thought over many years by people inside and outside the House who were concerned with the problems of crime and punishment and penal treatment generally . |
| 9 | Gould 's deepest fears , however , were concerned with the dangers of dispatching his collection back to England unaccompanied . |
| 10 | We were concerned with the networks of interaction through which the project plan became an institutionalised reality , which then exerted influence upon the evolving roles of the participants . |
| 11 | Fascism resulted from the frustration with , and alienation from , a system in which politicians were obsessed with the conventions of party politics to the detriment of the need for radical change ( highlighted by the First World War ) ; and radical change was vital if Britain 's accelerated economic and political decline was to be reversed . |
| 12 | He grew up in an age when the youth of the Netherlands were preoccupied with the tales of oppression and corruption in the colonial service revealed some 50 years earlier by the writings of ED Dekker ( writing as ‘ Multatuli ’ ) . |
| 13 | The early meetings of the Board were preoccupied with the details of visits , attention to the content of courses — including , for example , law , office organization and communication studies — and the balance of what was being proposed . |
| 14 | Those patients with a good postoperative result ‘ maintained it for many years , gained occupationally and vocationally , were pleased with the results of the operation , and were willing to recommend it to others ’ . |
| 15 | Despite two major disappointments in the Old Master section of the sale , Christie 's were pleased with the results of their two-day Spanish sale on 28 and 29 May which covered a wide range of categories including jewellery , ceramics , frames , carpets , arms , books and Old Master , modern and contemporary pictures . |
| 16 | Understandably so , for these problems were grave indeed : the Kennedys had been killed , likewise Dr King ; the streets of Paris and London were furious with the sounds of protest ; the cities and university towns of America were in turmoil : race relations , the draft , mind-expanding drugs , the Weather Underground , Dylan , Daley , psychedelia , the National Guard ; a cause for a riot , bomb or occupation was to be found everywhere , every day . |
| 17 | When they were level with the trees behind the cottage , she gave Oz a little push . |
| 18 | On nine lots bidding did not reach the reserves , and four lots were unsold with no bids at all . |
| 19 | Looking through the rubble , Ruth saw the whole Castle was alive with the sparks of spears . |
| 20 | As was usual with the rulers of the British empire , moral display served a dual purpose , being intended not only to improve native character but also to stimulate native loyalty . |
| 21 | But Horsley was popular with the Founders on a personal level . |
| 22 | I was bored with the arguments over the map . |
| 23 | Hepatic bile was supersaturated in a similar way in patients with cholesterol gall stones and gall stone free patients , which was consistent with the findings of Carey et al and Gallinger et al . |
| 24 | But the former was impossible with the twins in tow and the latter unthinkable given the length of time he 'd have to wait for one on a Sunday . |
| 25 | ( 3 ) The power reserved to the landlord to deprive the applicants of exclusive occupation was inconsistent with the provisions of the Rent Acts . |
| 26 | When I was eyeball-to-eyeball with the humiliations of puberty , my greatest hero was skiffler Lonnie Donegan . |
| 27 | From its inception Mr Sherriff was involved with the Keepers of the Quaich , a body whose aim is the promotion of the Scotch whisky industry , and he was a past president of the Wine & Spirit Association of Scotland . |
| 28 | By the time dawn came Dinah Asshe was intrigued with the possibilities of her own physical self . |
| 29 | Chapuisat , 23 , admits he was impressed with the Scots in Sweden , ‘ but not overawed ’ . |
| 30 | He added that EDS was competitive in price and that his staff was impressed with the results of meetings with EDS retail users in the US , including Del Monte and Smith 's Foods . |