Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On indictment a prison sentence of not more than six months was possible together with a fine ; on summary conviction the maximum was three months . |
| 2 | Walpole , who had kept his hands almost clean , began the task of rebuilding , a task that was possible only with the cooperation of the Bank of England and the East India Company in taking up some of the over-issued stock . |
| 3 | Moyola looked the more likely to get the winning score on the resumption and it came when Ruddock , who was unlucky earlier with a header which struck the Tobermore upright , sent in from the wing in the 79th minute and their big outside left Calderwood was on hand to head to the net . |
| 4 | He was concerned simply with the effect of what had happened in this particular case . |
| 5 | There he was concerned both with the removal of the grass-covered downlands and the break-up of the Dorset heaths : |
| 6 | Pressure for reform , which was concerned primarily with the ending of special share issues and dividend payments to exchange members , began after investigations following the 1987 crash [ see p. 35742 ] . |
| 7 | The case of RE S ( A Minor ) was concerned essentially with the opposition of the parents of one child to comprehensive schools ; they kept the boy , aged 11 , away from school for 18 months before the Court of Appeal confirmed that the child should be taken into care so that he could be educated . |
| 8 | In that case , this House was concerned only with the position of the Crown in law enforcement actions . |
| 9 | Thornburgh , who was about to leave the government in order to contest a Senate vacancy , insisted that he was concerned only with the jurisdiction of federal judges , and not with the rights or wrongs of the abortion issue . |
| 10 | Homage was not concerned with spiritual functions : it was concerned only with the tenure of land , and the act of homage was one of the main foundations of social organization . |
| 11 | Obviously we have n't been good away from home this season but I was pleased again with the attitude on Saturday . |
| 12 | Attlee 's arguments pointed clearly to the foreign policy eventually pursued by the post-war Labour Government — attempting to manipulate the emerging US superpower in a way that was compatible both with the maintenance of Britain 's overseas Empire and with her traditionally limited commitment to entanglement in European affairs . |
| 13 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 14 | I do n't doubt that I — in my tenuous superiority — was impatient both with the school routine and the people around me , but I do n't think I was bored . |
| 15 | Moreover , even when funds were available , the peasantry refused to fight for the monarch : and this was true even with the growth of an expropriated landless labouring class . |
| 16 | Sandy McGlashan was wild now with the sound of his own music . |
| 17 | And the Committee was satisfied both with the way the guidelines had been observed and with the resulting coverage . |