Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , being too hard in one set of negotiations — as the Chinese government was in the Bloody Summer of 1989 with its Peking students — proves enormously costly in terms of lost credibility and lost confidence in another set of negotiations — in that case , with the foreign banks , corporations and governments who were due to help with credit , technology and market access . |
| 2 | On the day Oreste and Gigia were due to sail with Mr Ogilvy from Liverpool Wilson had drawn a ship which excited Pilade more than anything else . |
| 3 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 4 | This means that , even if it were possible to deal with free-riders by making them breathe dirty air , it would be economically inefficient to do so . |
| 5 | The ‘ unit of desire ’ however , is admitted to be a presumption , but if it were possible to prove with scientific exactitude that it really existed then it would not be within the province of religion at all , but of science . |
| 6 | For this promethean task the workers were each paid with a handsome bound volume of Gaelic poetry . |
| 7 | The first three fastest men , the first 040 , 050 and 060 men as well as the first three male teams were each presented with their prizes before any women were even mentioned . |
| 8 | At the end of the Mass we were each presented with a book of prayers and readings — a gift from our Parish . |
| 9 | Mike Shaw and his Supervisor Barbara Finnan were each presented with a £50 cheque by Brian Roberts , Regional Manager , Retailer Services North , Payment Services/Card Services . |
| 10 | The Birthmark and Oral Cancer Appeal for Canniesburn Hospital , the Special Needs Unit at Kirklands Hospital , Bothwell , and Cumbernauld Branch of the Scottish Society for the Mentally Handicapped were each presented with a cheque for £835 . |
| 11 | Drinks and a finger buffet were served and the winners of a quiz , based on the two talks , were each presented with a bottle of champagne and a European Summit Commemorative pound note . |
| 12 | Two employees from the factories were each presented with £1,000 holiday vouchers as winners of a special prize draw . |
| 13 | Stockmen , and from Methwold and Winch Farms respectively , were each presented with a Craft Certificate , and , supervisor at Spey Farm was presented with his ATB ‘ S ’ series Supervisory Development Certificate . |
| 14 | Variations Tweed and Highland were each updated with two new colours , keeping them abreast of the latest trends in colour and furnishing styles . |
| 15 | The kitchen cars ( one of which was the kitchen and mess room car and the other the kitchen and stores car ) were each provided with suitable heating and cooking ranges . |
| 16 | Paul Lowe , 27 , and William Young , 21 , both of Rochdale , were each charged with carrying offensive weapons . |
| 17 | Two female New Zealand White rabbits were each injected with approximately 100µg of RAP74 or 300µg of RAP30 a week after preimmune serum had been bled . |
| 18 | ‘ If you were rich to start with , or determined to be a bigger bastard than your mates . ’ |
| 19 | In Section 2 the conclusion was reached that the jurists were prepared to dispense with direct words . |
| 20 | But both of them were prepared to live with it , for slightly different reasons . |
| 21 | While the General Election remained remote , loyal party members were prepared to flirt with realignment and even to admit that Labour stood no chance of victory if it fought alone . |
| 22 | The Government could only be brought down if sufficient Conservatives were prepared to vote with Labour and Liberal MPs to defeat it in the House of Commons , forcing a new election or opening the way to a reconstituted anti-fascist National Government . |
| 23 | The complexity of action and posture demonstrates the liberties sculptors were prepared to take with archaic conventions in the context of gable-structure . |
| 24 | Arrangements were made for her to go to a home specialising in care for people who were motivated to look after themselves , and the staff were prepared to cope with the deafness . |
| 25 | If this was the reply , they were prepared to go with it . |
| 26 | While the leadership of the IFL was evidently opposed to Mosley , they were prepared to co-operate with the rank and file of his organization . |
| 27 | For example , the Bank of England would hardly have hesitated in the old days to close down a bank like BCCI , knowing that few first-rate domestic institutions were prepared to deal with it in quantity . |
| 28 | The Maronites were prepared to cooperate with the outside power because they correctly believed that the French wanted a future independent Lebanon which would look to France for protection . |
| 29 | The communists in Shanghai were influenced more by nationalism and were prepared to cooperate with the provisional government , nominally presided over by Rhee . |
| 30 | Most said that they had been surprised if not totally taken aback on the news of the merger ; but to various degrees said that they were prepared to work with the new ownership as long as the guarantees of openness and neutrality made by Novell regarding the development of System V.4 were maintained . |