Example sentences of "[noun sg] was made with the " in BNC.

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1 So a truce was made with the Spartans ( 451 ) which , as Thucydides describes it ( i.112 ) , need not have been motivated by more than Athens ' commonsense desire to deal with her enemies one by one .
2 In the year 1208 Sora ( in the Regno to the east of Rome ) and the title of count were conferred on Richard Conti by the king of Sicily 's representative , and on 6 October Richard tendered the oath of vassalage to the pope at Ferentino for all the territories he had acquired and investiture was made with the gilded chalice ( per cuppam deauratam ) .
3 A bayonet was snapped in pursuit of a threatening dog , but no other contact was made with the ‘ hostiles ’ .
4 It was then that first contact was made with the egregious Hesketh , who provided an F3 car , a Dastle , in which ‘ Bubbles ’ Horsley and Hunt raced for part of the 1972 season .
5 Contact was made with the old human empire in Cathay .
6 Not knowing about electricity , but knowing about hydraulic systems , Descartes suggested that the control of these reactions in animals was mediated by movements of fluids , initiated in the sensory nerves by stimuli , being carried to the ventricular system of the brain where contact was made with the motor nerves .
7 Nevertheless , some contact was made with the village , primarily through teachers and medical assistants , and the SRs were able to exert their influence over the All-Russian Peasants Union , the most important peasant body to emerge during 1905 .
8 However , an attempt to satisfy donors on the exchange rate was made with the announcement of a further 17.3 per cent devaluation of the shilling on Dec. 3 , 1989 , to $1.00=TSh180 .
9 In 1676 an arrangement was made with the widow of William Gape , a past Master of the Company , for plants to be transferred from her Westminster garden to Chelsea and work began on the building of a brick wall around the property .
10 The comment was made with the intention of changing the subject and , thanks to the Dane 's interest in his commercial success , her ploy worked , for he nodded and proceeded to recite what sounded like a full two pages from his order book .
11 If the petitioner has received any payment from the debtor since the petition was presented or the debtor has entered into an arrangement with the petitioner for the securing or compounding of the debt , the affidavit must state what dispositions of property the debtor has made so as to pay the debt or secure or compound for it , whether any property disposed of was the property of the debtor himself or some other person , and if the property was that of the debtor himself , whether the disposition was made with the approval of the court ( r 6.32(2) ) .
12 A major merchandising statement was made with the successful introduction of the mass market brand ‘ Collage ’ .
13 On November 2 , 1982 , television history was made with the birth of Channel 4 .
14 The film was made with the help of the so-called squatters estate agency run from this office in Oxford .
15 The ethics may appear questionable to present day conservationists , but it may be said in defence that the trip was made with the knowledge of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , whose observations at that time showed that there was no falling off in the numbers of breeding birds as a result of the annual slaughter .
16 Exposure was made with the coloured starch ‘ screen ’ towards the subject .
17 Exposure was made with the coloured starch ‘ screen ’ towards the subject .
18 One jolting tackle and the link was made with the big screen 's violent he-man .
19 One jolting tackle and the link was made with the big screen 's violent he-man .
20 The commissioning of the £2.3 million puffed wheat plant was completed in November and good progress was made with the new management information systems .
21 When he conceived a painting the composition came of itself , the design , the arrangement , the balance was made with the idea ; they came naturally .
22 When , at last , the deep adit came in below these workings , and connection was made with the deepening shafts , ore from that source was brought out in ever increasing amounts until the Paddy End Mill was closed down .
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