Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [verb] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was used to sailing with the best and got exasperated with the Soviet crew . |
| 2 | And she got all the rest of the stuff cost price because she was used to liaising with the caterers and photographers before other people 's weddings . |
| 3 | She was damp , she was sore from scrubbing with the shower mitt , her hair hung in rats ' tails . |
| 4 | His strength of character was invaluable in dealing with the guards and his commitment to his fellow hostages was such that he would listen quietly and matter of factly on the occasions when we all had a heart-to-heart about the little ways in which we got on each others ' nerves . |
| 5 | His reasoning was that the first field was inadequate for operating with the additional load . |
| 6 | Mr McNeill , who was responsible for co-operating with the CRE inquiry on behalf of the region , said last week he thought ‘ a multiplicity of other factors , possibly malnutrition when young , or genetic factors ’ , could be responsible . |
| 7 | Clara Malraux offers an instructive assessment of Nizan 's psychology at this juncture : I think that Nizan was capable of living with the faults . |
| 8 | In preparation for this , the first decade of the regime was devoted to the development of the infrastructure , in particular the railways and canals , so that by 1860 France had reached a point where it was felt she was capable of competing with the greatest economic power of the age . |
| 9 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 May 1992 the health authority appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the court had no jurisdiction to grant a mandatory injunction requiring a health authority to cause specified medical treatment to be given , alternatively , no jurisdiction to order it to cause such treatment to be given against the professional judgment of its servants or agents ; ( 2 ) the judge had erred in holding that he was not bound by the decision in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 to hold that there was no such jurisdiction ; ( 3 ) there had been no material before the court to justify the judge granting a mandatory interlocutory injunction since ( a ) there was no evidence that the health authority owed J. any enforceable duty to provide the ordered treatment , or that such treatment would be in his best interests ; ( b ) there was uncontradicted evidence before the court that the treatment ordered would be painful and ineffective to give J. a prospect of long term survival and ( c ) there was no material establishing that there was a reasonable or any prospect of a final order being granted in the terms of the interlocutory order ; ( 4 ) if the court had jurisdiction to make the order the judge erred in the exercise of his discretion in that ( a ) he had failed to give sufficient weight to the uncontradicted medical evidence or to the undesirability of seeking to force a doctor to act against his professional judgment and/or requiring the employer of the doctor to do so , ( b ) he had failed to consider that the order was capable of interfering with the health authority 's duty to care for other patients , and ( c ) by its terms the order was too imprecise to enable the health authority to be able to ascertain how it should be complied with . |
| 10 | The Archdeacon was capable of coping with the press , the Bishop , the police and the Parochial Church Council . |
| 11 | In 1948 Scott LJ attempted to elucidate a modern formula for ascertaining whether a covenant was capable of running with the land : |
| 12 | It also remained a source of controversy among the Canadian electorate , its supporters maintaining that it was essential for competing with the world 's other large trading blocs , while its opponents blamed it for Canada 's current economic malaise . |
| 13 | The First Vice-President of Panama , Ricardo Arias Calderón , resigned from his post on Dec. 17 , declaring at a press conference that the government of President Guillermo Endara Galimany was incapable of dealing with the corruption , unemployment or poverty in Panama . |
| 14 | He was exhilarated by working with the legendary director Sir Tyrone Guthrie in the Shakespearean tragedy , in which he had the humble roles of Second Serving man and Second Citizen . |
| 15 | Some reticence was necessary in dealing with the middle classes — you were never quite sure what influence might be brought to bear behind the scenes . |