Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] with the " in BNC.

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1 The representatives of Turkey , Iran , Egypt , Pakistan and Senegal were designated to negotiate with the UN Security Council over the predicament of the Moslem population of Bosnia-Hercegovina .
2 Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion .
3 Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion .
4 They were intended to compete with the vans that circulate the scheme .
5 The history of the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital is deeply rooted in legislation ; in laws which were designed to deal with the problems arising from unemployment , sickness , destitution and vagrancy .
6 In Whelan Associates Inc. v Jaslow Dental Laboratory Inc. [ 1987 ] , the programs being compared were designed to assist with the administration of dental laboratories .
7 Both he and Fitzroy Maclean were bidden to dine with the Prime Minister at the British Embassy on 8 August .
8 Top dealers with plummy accents who had passed the registered Representatives ' and Traders ' examination were primed to speak with the inspectors .
9 The dose equivalence tended to fall with increasing doses of salmeterol indicating that the responses were tending to plateau with the 200 µg dose .
10 In August Göring told Lipski that certain anti-German incidents along the Polish border were poisoning the atmosphere and that Poles were conspiring to interfere with the work of the League in Danzig .
11 There were other ways , too , in which ordinary people were made to conform with the regime 's desire for order and control .
12 But some efforts were made to cope with the problem of poverty .
13 On publication of the Scottish Sports Council 's report into school-aged sport ‘ Laying the Foundations ’ , Michael Forsyth MP , Scottish Office Minister for Sport , requested that Council Chairman Professor Raymond Miquel set up a high level enquiry group to examine the problems of school-aged team sport , and to consider what positive initiatives were needed to assist with the development of team-based sport in Scotland .
14 But a rather elaborate hypothesis emerged , particularly popular in the USA , which involved excitatory and inhibitory ‘ Sympathins ’ which were thought to combine with the transmitter to produce the active mediators ( see chapter 4 ) .
15 that consultation , they were waiting to meet with the county er
16 For a long time it looked as if Newcastle were going to leave with the three points they so desperately needed and it was the visitors who drew first blood .
17 Erm the point that both the others raised about my objection with the large document and my objection regarding what you were going to do with the information you could have apacked and come out with a stronger result .
18 You were going to help with the woman .
19 She knew that the Pitts were going to stay with the police , go down to the river to wait if the Chief Superintendent let them , but she did not want to .
20 Three support staff directly concerned with the issue - two secretaries and a laboratory technician — were invited to join with the head in addressing the needs of the future .
21 The approach was collaborative : teachers were invited to work with the team as equal partners in the attempts both to investigate and find solutions to the GIST problem .
22 Some were timed to coincide with the changing seasons , reminding the people of God 's constant provision for them , and providing an opportunity to return to God some token of all that he had given .
23 Minor aircraft snags encountered were of no concern as these would be rectified by the previously-noted maintenance crews under the command of S/L Hughes who were scheduled to sail with the vessel .
24 Fifty firemen were called to deal with the fire in a storage section of a plastics factory .
25 ‘ We were expecting to grow with the English work , ’ Mr Bedford said .
26 In the evening Rostov , Yuan and Alexei were summoned to eat with the Khan and his officers .
27 This meant that senior Labour leaders were brought to deal with the problems of the post-war treatment of Germany and the need for providing occupation forces .
28 The Earl of Morton ( one of Vial 's earliest patrons in this country ) and 12 other gentlemen were appointed to deal with the calumny aspect .
29 Volunteers were asked to help with the decoration of the hall and the tree .
30 Holidays were taken to coincide with the busy periods .
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