Example sentences of "it was [verb] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was done with the best of motives . |
| 2 | When , in 1968 , a new Theatres Act swept away the censorship of plays by the Lord Chamberlain , it was replaced with the 1959 test of obscenity , but added a qualifying provision that no case could be brought without the consent of the Attorney General . |
| 3 | It was replaced with the elegant stone-built building during the 19th century . |
| 4 | This was deemed to be discriminatory according to the European Directive on payment of benefits , and it was replaced with the severe disablement allowance for all claimants in 1984 . |
| 5 | The dialogue was quick-fire stuff , and he never got more than half-way through each sub-title before it was replaced with the next one . |
| 6 | Pence and pounds than it was to deal with the old pounds , shillings and pence . |
| 7 | David MacLehose , director of the Confederation of British Industry in Scotland , said a fall in unemployment was always welcome , especially when it was matched with the highest increase in notified vacancies at job centres for two years . |
| 8 | It was covered with the white crocheted cap demanded of his tradition . |
| 9 | The activities of the NL were primarily restricted to private meetings in 1938 , although it was connected with the Militant Christian Patriots at the end of the Munich Crisis when it urged Chamberlain not to get Britain involved in Jewish designs for a world war . |
| 10 | It was swollen with the heavy rain that had fallen during the last few days , and it looked fierce and dark . |
| 11 | Hotspur hung back from him , and let him gather himself , waited , indeed , for him to make the first assay , and put it by when it was made with the utmost care and forbearance . |
| 12 | The High Authority , however , survived as a distinct body until 1965 when it was merged with the other supranational executives . |
| 13 | It was built with the characteristic ostentation of the period , and looks like a Victorian town hall with a chimney . |
| 14 | It was stacked with the usual assortment of crates and containers , impregnable behind an ingenious array of clamps and locks . |
| 15 | It was recorded with the original Wedding Present line-up but by the time it was released in February 1988 , Shaun Charman had been replaced by Simon Smith . |
| 16 | Initially this oppositional thought was directed against the rationalism of the Enlightenment as it was expressed in the doctrines of the French Revolution and in the practices of the developing capitalist economy ; and in Germany especially , it was associated with the Romantic movement . |
| 17 | Evolutionism played only a minor role because it was associated with the old , rather amateurish techniques that led to unlimited speculation . |
| 18 | All agree that it was fought with the greatest bravery on both sides and that the victory was by no means an easy one for Shoa . |
| 19 | It was an attempt to cultivate an attitude of mind that recognised that this intelligence — however glorious — had its limitations when it was confronted with the ineffable and ultimate reality . |
| 20 | It was combined with the similar but larger Maine-Anjou in the 1960s to form the Rouge de l'Ouest , and then virtually lost its separate identity in 1970 when it was crossed with the MRY and the German Red Pied ( itself a composite ) to become part of the combined group known as the Pie Rouge des Plaines in northern Brittany , in which the MRY is dominant . |
| 21 | The Målselv of Tromsø is now considered to be a local variety of the Norwegian Red , though it was combined with the Red Trondheim in 1951 . |
| 22 | Separately , CA said that it was working with the Open Software Foundation to make Unicenter compliant with OSF 's Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ) , and Distributed Management Environment ( DME ) technologies . |