Example sentences of "it was [verb] with [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following municipal law agency principles a third party could claim that it was bound with respect to the protectorate provided the agent had acted within the scope of its express , implied , or apparent authority . |
| 2 | The theme of the address was ‘ In Praise of Banking ’ , and it was illustrated with examples from Sir Jeremy 's experiences during 40 years in the industry . |
| 3 | His voice moved up a register , from baritone to tenor , and it was tinged with irritation for the first time that evening . |
| 4 | Equally clay moulds may have been produced by carving in the negative directly onto the clay ; while carving a negative is difficult it was achieved with success at other times , for instance in the medieval period with stone moulds . |
| 5 | We consent to that and your Lordship one direction to help us when we come to calculating interest is one of the earliest figures that your Lordship came to and it was dealing with care to date . |
| 6 | Cheerfully and expensively furnished , it was littered with photographs of men — no , of one man . |
| 7 | For the next 100 million years parts of it were under the sea and it was covered with layers of sandstone , then limestone , and swampy forests which were buried between layers of mud and sand . |
| 8 | As big as two cathedrals it was covered with scales of pure gold . |
| 9 | Probably the most spectacular example of this is the large gaming or divination board found in the East Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth : it was covered with plaques of ivory , plated with gold and further decorated with plaques of crystal backed with silver or blue paste . |
| 10 | It was packed with people on the front . |
| 11 | It was threatened with closure after the demise of the lead-workings , but was saved and is now operated as a tourist service in summer months by British Rail — the only steam line left in the nationalized network . |
| 12 | It was developed with grants of $1.2m from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , $400,000 from the US Office of Naval Research . |
| 13 | The South Metropolitan Company 's turn came later and it was transferred with effect from 14 June 1913 . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ Inspectors sent to investigate the premises then found it was infested with cockroaches from infant to adult stage , alive and dead , on work surfaces , in the waste bins , around the cooker and behind two storage freezers . ’ |
| 15 | The company said it was inundated with bids for 700 construction and 130 longer-term drilling jobs . |
| 16 | The company said it was inundated with bids for the 700 construction and 130 longer-term drilling jobs on offer . |
| 17 | It was fastened with nails at its four corners to keep all daylight from the room . |
| 18 | It was filled with sacks of corn and oats that mingled their scents with hay from the loft above and the lingering fragrance of the last of the stored apples . |
| 19 | Though it was pissing with rain in Spain . |
| 20 | It was purchased with part of Wimpey 's donation and will be used as a teaching aid for nurses when explaining the causes of osteoporosis — the fragile bone disease — to patients . |
| 21 | It strikes me that the whole phenomenon is in the same position as the ecology movement in the early Eighties , when it was associated with people with beards and woolly jumpers who drank Real Ale . |
| 22 | When Jordan launched his shorter hours campaign in 1989 , it was greeted with scepticism by union and industrial leaders . |
| 23 | It was decorated with photographs of his relatives . |
| 24 | The reason for this is clear in Collins MR 's judgment where it was said that , in the case of a purchase of goods capable of a multitude of purposes , in order to invoke the implied condition , it was necessary to show that the goods were sold with reference to a particular purpose : … in order to give rise to the implication of a warranty , it is necessary to show that , though the article sold was capable of general use for many purposes , in the particular case it was sold with reference to a particular purpose . |
| 25 | Instead it was combined with space in a four-dimensional object called space-time . |
| 26 | My feelings about the book were positive rather than the reverse , but I complained in my review that it was studded with references to fashionable French gurus that were purely cosmetic , adding nothing to the author 's argument . |
| 27 | It was mixed with tweed at KL , with tailored wools at Positiv , with jersey and rib-knit at Escada … sometimes for a jacket or waistcoat , sometimes a skirt , and always for trousers or jeans . |
| 28 | It was read with awe by generations of students who wondered how he succeeded in making such an interesting topic so boring . |
| 29 | A European Pharmacovigilance Research Group ( EPRG ) has been set up ; it was established with support from the European Commission under the Biomed Programme to develop and validate methods of pharmacovigilance that are applicable to the divergent patterns of health care delivery across the European Community and that are compatible with national legal , cultural , and ethical customs . |
| 30 | It was planted with mile upon mile of hibiscus bushes . |