Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] with that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of Indonesians were conscripted into labour corps , and these romushas were treated with that callous indifference verging on brutality which characterised Japanese practices throughout South-East Asia . |
| 2 | for at that time from far and near there is a gathering of the clans : the games were instituted with that purpose , and have continued to draw together year by year Highland chieftains and men of note , and ladies of rank , accomplishments , and beauty . |
| 3 | as a project engineer or team member or one of the troops doing the job , if you were presented with that , you could have done what you 'd been asked to do ? |
| 4 | ‘ What DID you think you were doing with that monstrous medieval machine ? ’ |
| 5 | André 's delighted grin brought a resigned smile to her lips , and they caught a cab to one of the casinos , where the roulette tables were buzzing with that particular glittering breed of night-life whose adrenalin flowed in front of the gambling table . |
| 6 | Will she tell some of her hon. Friends that a recent independent study has shown that if the basis of representation in Scotland were equated with that in England , the Conservative party in Scotland would cease to be an endangered species and become an extinct species ? |
| 7 | Meanwhile , over in Soho , THE CHRISTIANS were burdened with that most arduous of tasks — the record company showcase . |
| 8 | There was no dispute in the proceedings before the judge , nor is there now , that the appellants were served with that notice of motion , as they had been earlier with the notice of the order made by the deputy judge . |
| 9 | It may also be for the benefit of the institution to state that of the patients discharged , cured and remaining in the House three were afflicted with that most excruciating complaint , the stone … the operation has been thrice successfully performed . |
| 10 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 11 | As the Joyces waited at Victoria Station , the bookstalls were piled with that month 's issue of Vogue magazine , urging holidaymakers to choose ‘ Germany the Land of Hospitality ’ . |
| 12 | if we were working with that . |
| 13 | The two dégagé ladies , who traded very successfully under the name ‘ Plain and Fancy ’ at the dinner parties of the bourgeoisie of Medewich and the surrounding county , were working with that synchronised proficiency of totally competent professionals . |
| 14 | The rest of the afternoon was tainted with that powerful awareness , and as they drove through the city Rachel was on edge , aware of the predator at her side . |
| 15 | A story which appeared in last week 's Electronics Weekly , saying the company was considering another RISC was placed with that publication , CDC admits , ‘ to put the wind up Silicon Graphics and MIPS . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ After the judge condemned someone to death , the unfortunate man was hanged with that rope . ’ |
| 17 | but er Eileen she 's got four of them , you know , Margaret was living with that lad for ten years were n't she ? |
| 18 | Then , when he was done with that , he nodded to himself and blanked the screens . |
| 19 | Well you know our old house was built with that was n't it ? |
| 20 | Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’ |
| 21 | She was threatened with that a few days later when she was sweeping the back stairs and her rear view was too much of a temptation for the young footman . |
| 22 | She 'd never been a proper mother and I hated the way she was acting with that man . |
| 23 | They had a summer full of sand and sea and gold , Jay was blessed with that summer and the sunshine of Astrid 's love . |
| 24 | He , too , was blessed with that sense of humour which seemed indigenous to them all . |
| 25 | Consequently , the concept of sovereignty was replaced with that of ‘ public service ’ ; the state exists merely to perform certain tasks which are necessary for the preservation and promotion of social solidarity . |
| 26 | For instance , in 1936 the style of certain Athenian coins was compared with that of other arts , and the conclusion was drawn that the coins were produced at the same time as the other objects , i.e. , 565BC ; but we now believe that the true date of these coins is some sixty years later . |
| 27 | Cells were treated with a range of chemical and physical insults before analysis of mRNA ( Fig. 1 b ) and the pattern of induction of CL100 mRNA was compared with that for haem oxygenase , a gene transcriptionally induced in human cells by oxidant stress . |
| 28 | The very sight of the sign at the head of the platform , shabby and tourist and third class though it was compared with that of the Golden Arrow at the other end of the station , was enough to raise her to a state she had never reached before , and as the train moved south , she sat in her seat and stared out of the window as though in a trance . |
| 29 | The response to cumulative doses of salbutamol was compared with that to non-cumulative doses of salmeterol . |
| 30 | The predicted RAP74 amino acid sequence was compared with that of the major σ factor of E.coli , σ 70 , using the Sequence Analysis Software Package , GCG version 7.1 of the Institute of Medical Science of University of Tokyo . |