Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [be] [vb pp] with [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Well aware that before their present position both she and the Emperor would have been officially designated by the sclerotic European courts as ‘ other persons who might be invited ’ , Eugénie had no hesitation in squashing what she considered to be behaviour unsuitable for the Court of Napoleon III , where ‘ other persons ’ were to be received with dignity and no hint of condescension .
2 As the act said , even ‘ women or others about summer trees singing ’ were to be viewed with concern , because they might ‘ make perturbation ’ .
3 Single-parent families were to be treated with suspicion ; it was a status she believed lowered the tone and moral values of the school .
4 He suggested that if the RAC were to be re-constituted with equality of representation and parity of esteem between the Board and the WEA , an arrangement which already existed in the University/WEA Joint Tutorial Classes Committee , the procedures followed by that committee over the appointment of tutors and approval of syllabuses would clearly offer a satisfactory solution .
5 As announced on Jan. 15 Erich Honecker , the former head of state , and Erich Mielke , the former head of the secret police , were to be charged with treason .
6 Twenty ships were to be sent with grain supplies to Gascony , and an expedition there was to be headed by the earls of Lancaster , Lincoln , and Warwick , along with Hugh Despenser ( later Earl of Winchester , q.v . ) .
7 Export processing zones were to be developed with World Bank and African Development Bank assistance .
8 The Company 's accounts state that Nos. 36–43 were to be delivered with track brakes but without regenerative equipment and cost £617 10s. each .
9 In February 1991 the Public Ministry 's Special Attorney for Human Rights announced that an army sergeant was to be charged with homicide .
10 Anyone alleging poverty was to be charged with ingratitude , but if he persisted in his refusal he was to have his name taken and be told to keep the matter secret .
11 The communiqué issued after the talks with Latvia said that the troops concerned were to be regarded as " foreign military forces " leaving " another sovereign state " , and the schedule for departure was to be established with regard for the national security of the states and the welfare of military personnel .
12 In 584 , however , he was to be found with Mummolus in Avignon , where they were joined by Desiderius , dux of the recently murdered Chilperic .
13 Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that , although the definition of ‘ family proceedings ’ in section 8 of the Children Act 1989 did not specifically refer to the provisions in Part III of the Act , the section was to be read with section 92(2) of the Act which made it clear that all applications to the justices under the Act were family proceedings ; that , accordingly , the application to the justices for a secure accommodation order under section 25 in Part III of the Act were family proceedings ; and that , therefore , the statements of evidence and the psychiatrist 's report should have been admitted in evidence in accordance with the provisions of the Children ( Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence ) Order 1991 ( post , pp. 91E–G , H — 92A ) .
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