Example sentences of "[noun] were with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the government 's commitment to control public expenditure and reduce taxation , her main troubles in the first term were with the major spending departments and with ministers who favoured some further reflation to ease unemployment . |
| 2 | His chief concerns were with the conditions of labour and education of the working classes , and he was the instigator of the Factory Act of 18 19 , which prohibited the employment in textile mills of children under ten , and reduced working hours for those under eighteen . |
| 3 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 4 | In the first , it can be proved that both A and B were with the child when the injury was caused . |
| 5 | ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high . |
| 6 | Though his first political sympathies were with the Union and the right-wing of the Conservative party , William Joyce subsequently held English misgovernment to blame for the loss of Ireland . |
| 7 | As an undergraduate my sympathies were with the Left , with the Republicans in Spain , with the anti-Fascists in Italy and Germany , but always with a nearly corresponding hostility to the extremes of political thought on the other side . |
| 8 | Many years later I learned that the Bishop , whose sympathies were with the Fascists , had sent Don Cattabianchi to this distant parish because of the priest 's opposition to the regime . |
| 9 | In the early days of homoeopathy , Hahnemann 's most striking successes were with the epidemic diseases — cholera , typhus , typhoid and the like . |
| 10 | Two of the largest 1989 joint-venture deals were with the Italian Fiat company ( $1,410 million to build 300,000 cars a year in the Soviet Union ) and with the US-owned Combustion Engineering ( $2,000 million to build a petrochemical plant in West Siberia ) . |
| 11 | Their true love affairs were with the camera and with those flickering images of themselves which turned on the rest of the public as well . |
| 12 | Without doubt the sympathies of the British people were with the Spanish Republican government — and they demonstrated their support with a humanitarian response . |
| 13 | Hodai had said that the Khan 's wives were with the clan on the Merkut hereditary pastureland a day 's ride north of Kinsai . |
| 14 | Some of its most significant early relations were with the guild merchant , which sought to regulate the conditions of urban trade . |
| 15 | Five other squad members were with the Merseyside B squad last season . |
| 16 | At every level the lines of communication were with the central authority , not with the official who was doing the same job in the adjacent district . |
| 17 | The initial concerns of the Board were with the transfer of responsibilities from the Law Society and their subsequent management . |
| 18 | Allard had arrived in Paris from Lille in the spring of 1910 and his first contacts were with the future Cubists ; because of this , his criticism is doubly interesting as representing their ideas unclouded by outside opinion . |
| 19 | Although baptized and buried in Anglican churches , his strongest links were with the Abney Congregational church , which he had largely financed . |
| 20 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the expression ‘ is suffering … significant harm ’ in section 31(2) ( a ) of the Children Act 1989 referred to the point in time immediately before the process of protecting the child began , so that , in determining whether the first threshold condition of section 31(2) was satisfied , the court had to consider the position before the commencement of the voluntary care when the children were with the mother ; that the condition in section 31(2) ( b ) related to care by the parent or carer whose lack of care had caused the significant harm to the child and not to the care which might be given by other carers if no care order were to be made , which only became relevant once the threshold conditions under section 31(2) had been satisfied in deciding whether or not a care order should be made ; and that it could not be said that the family proceedings court had been wrong in concluding , first , that the threshold conditions were satisfied and , secondly , on the evidence , that a care order to the local authority was the appropriate order ( post , pp. 1013H — 1014A , E–F , H — 1015B ) . |
| 21 | In 1991 the children were with the mother and the father and there were concerns about them . |
| 22 | In my judgment , the family proceedings court was quite entitled to consider the position when the children were with the mother prior to going into care and was correct in doing so . |
| 23 | His thoughts were with the two figures ahead , so tightly linked beneath the sheltering dome of the umbrella . |
| 24 | She felt the distance from England far more acutely than her preoccupied spouse ; her thoughts were with the children , and , even at this early stage , she longed for the voyage home . |
| 25 | Although the award was made to me , my thoughts were with the CCG crew that were on board the Tharos that night — I really was collecting it on their behalf ’ . |