Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 2 | In cephalaspids ( Cephalaspis illustrated ) the eyes were placed dorsally with a single nasohypophysial opening and the flattened head shield was fenestrated by enlarged sensory fields connected to the inner ear . |
| 3 | When the Hooligans first put in an appearance , the floggers and die-hards had been much in evidence , but they were eased aside with the growing recognition that Hooliganism was a pointer towards a general dislocation among the youth — and not just a ‘ hard core ’ — and that the problem was therefore immune to a narrow penal response . |
| 4 | Fine creases where the colour had flaked off the shoes were painted in with a rich reunite of permanent rose and white , whilst permanent rose was used alone for some minor details like the punchmarks on the orange strap loops and the stitching around the edges of the straps themselves . |
| 5 | It came in the spring , when men 's minds were occupied more with the new wave of cattle-fever than with wars far overseas . |
| 6 | Furthermore , no alteration of the protein pattern in the electrophoresis was observed when the competitions were carried out with the mutated oligonucleotides ( results not shown ) , demonstrating that the binding of the proteins to the oligonucleotide was specific . |
| 7 | Subsequent measurements were carried out with the 76-m Lovell telescope at frequencies between 408MHz and 1,660 MHz . |
| 8 | Often three different types of roof — pyramid , hip , and gable — were included together with a wide variety of dormers in the upper storey . |
| 9 | Either they are in nature , or they were mixed together with the yellow spots of unidentified sources . ’ |
| 10 | Rats were pretreated subcutaneously with a total dose of 125 mg/kg capsaicin 14 days before the experiments . |
| 11 | They were wedged in with the patient herd of people who were shuffling slowly and quietly up the stairs to the foyer , but Mark talked in a clear , excited voice , as if oblivious of their presence . |
| 12 | And , despite what the media claimed , Reagan was not elected because people were fed up with the huge federal deficit and were clamoring for budget cuts … . |
| 13 | Samples were collected continuously with a refrigerated autosampler ( CMA200 , Carnegie Medicin , Stockholm , Sweden ) over 30 min intervals with the frequency increased to every 3 min during a seizure . |
| 14 | The train sets were made up with the following types of coaches : |
| 15 | But can I suggest it 's probably a lot more difficult to get there than you were describing even with the various points that you were raising in your address this morning , because I wonder if it is fair for all of us , to accept the immediate linkage between the voluntary sector whatever we actually mean by that , and good community institutions , community thinking , community awareness . |
| 16 | Whilst the pathfinders had the original control of H2S , developments were going on with a fair measure of practical input from Bennett and his friends at TRE , and eventually a superior set was devised and known as the 3cm HS . |
| 17 | You said yesterday you were going along with the Irish |
| 18 | The institutions of Roman civil law were bound up with the rigid observance of strict form ; trusts were not , the textbooks say . |
| 19 | Hopes were raised again with a superb performance at Shrewsbury . |
| 20 | Under the floor of the pillar crypts in the West Wing at Knossos were deposited the ashes of animal sacrifices : the pillars above were incised repeatedly with the sacred double-axe symbol . |
| 21 | At that same moment the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , were making contact with each other on the basis of common pictorial interests , while the Italians were banded together with an elaborate programme but no adequate means of expressing it . |
| 22 | The economic attainments of North Korea were compared favourably with the poor results in the south ; the latter had been adversely affected by the ‘ barbarous and plundering policy of the Americans ’ . |
| 23 | As young children , Peter and his sister Norah , were brought up with a strong emphasis on Ukrainian culture . |
| 24 | Notes for Guidance were distributed together with the Parliamentary statement , indicating how individual schemes were to be prepared with the object of creating ‘ institutions which can be developed as comprehensive academic communities offering a wide range of disciplines and catering for full-time , sandwich and part-time students at all levels of higher education ’ . |
| 25 | In the 10 subjects in whom antral-duodenal , and jejunal motilities were monitored simultaneously with the oesophageal recording , the different phases of the migrating motor complex were visually identified according to accepted criteria . |
| 26 | Other studies have shown similarly extensive local group activity but in Birmingham , only about one-third were politically active and most of these ( 63 per cent ) were involved only with a single issue . |
| 27 | The village contained little more than cottages , but the spirit of the day had been caught … and two or three of the best of them were smartened up with a white curtain and ‘ lodgings to let ’ — and further on in the little green court of an old farm house , two females in elegant white were actually to be seen with their books and camp-stools — and in turning the corner of the baker 's shop , the sound of a harp might be heard through the upper casement . |
| 28 | But the greatest blow to the dictates of fashion on women 's dress came with the World War I. Although Laura Ashley had , unconsciously , much in common with the nineteenth-century dress reformers it is ironic that their efforts towards change were entangled inextricably with the organized struggles for the rights of women ; women , to be taken seriously , had to dress in a more robust , sensible manner , they stated — an argument amply demonstrated by their usefulness in wartime . |
| 29 | The Lord Chancellor 's proposals to cut eligibility for legal aid were put forward with no prior consultation . |
| 30 | Suddenly all the gifts disappeared , and the pair were left only with the humble fisherman 's hut they owned to start with . |