Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] with the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water was comparatively plentiful , except in times of drought , but the pools and streams were infested with the parasites which caused bilharzia , a debilitating disease which infected nearly all the local people , who had no alternative water supply for washing . |
| 2 | A world famous fashion house recently found that their entire production of a line of woollen garments were infested with the larvae of the clothes moth , just before they were due to be sent to the retail outlets . |
| 3 | Fourth , if the children were placed with the grandparents the mother would cause problems with contact in view of the past relationships . |
| 4 | ‘ We said that if David was out , then we were all out and would n't play against Bournemouth because we were sticking with the players still owed money . |
| 5 | Photons were colliding with the electrons of the atoms of the matter ; the recoil of each electron ‘ stole ’ a little energy from the relevant photon — just as the white ball in pool loses energy when it bounces off another ball , and therefore slows down . |
| 6 | Simultaneously , close links were formed with the Women 's Trade Union League to promote trade unionism , and launch inquiries under the auspices of the Women 's Industrial Council into conditions of female employment . |
| 7 | The Girls used a combination of numbers five and nine ; a few streaks painted on the cheeks , chin , nose and forehead were blended with the fingertips . |
| 8 | The girls , coaxed from the cars and persuaded to sit on the bottom row of the stand , were heaped with the players ' coats and scarves and warned not to fidget . |
| 9 | The war was an anxious time , for the daily newspapers were filled with the lists of men killed in the battles in France , and we lived in daily dread of the routine telegram from the War Office . |
| 10 | Gate takings from designated provincial matches were being given to the Patriotic Fund , the first lists of killed and wounded were being published , and , as the season drew to a close , newspaper pages were filled with the photographs of the casualties from Gallipoli , New Zealand 's bloody initiation into modern warfare . |
| 11 | The monthly tests were designed with the demands of the scholarship exam in mind but Alfie , with his severe special needs , did not achieve a single mark in any test during the three years . |
| 12 | To detect any contamination of samples before breaking the code , negative controls of sterile water were included with the samples in a ratio of one negative control per three samples and treated identically at each stage . |
| 13 | The dependency ratios in Table I.1 for 1961 and 1979 would be even greater if those aged 14–15 were included with the children and not with the working population . |
| 14 | The panels were decorated with the portraits of the twelve Marshals of the First Empire , in their splendid uniforms ; the tall windows were hung with red velvet draperies with golden fringes and they seemed but tiny openings in the enormous room . |
| 15 | The other three were caught with the joints in their hands . |
| 16 | Dried fruit , eggs and sugar , and ‘ a drop of rum to make it decent ’ added Mary Clarke , were mixed with the curds to make the filling for the pastry case . |
| 17 | RCN branch chairman Dave Riley told the inquiry that homes were daubed with the words ‘ scab ’ and ‘ bitch . ’ |
| 18 | On 30 June those men not involved in the parade , display or Challenge Cup were training with the Canadians , Germans and Danes . |
| 19 | In Britain , two major religious sites were connected with the spas at Bath and Buxton . |
| 20 | Thus , Barker ( 1984 ) , in her study of the Moonies , gave a questionnaire similar to that which she had given to the Moonies to a group of people who were matched with the Moonies with respect to sex , age , and background . |
| 21 | General analyses of DNA and protein sequences were made with the programs of the UWGCG ( 22 ) . |
| 22 | Her limbs were wracked with the aches of her first trip outside since the bluelight had punctured her brain , and he was whole and strong . |
| 23 | Boswell had a fire in his ‘ most elegant ’ room overlooking the sea , but he did not sleep well because the sea made its wild noises , and the pillows were stuffed with the feathers of ‘ some sea-fowl , which had to me a disagreeable smell ’ . |
| 24 | A host of smaller cities and towns were supplied with the foodstuffs and manufacturing goods essential for the rapidly developing American living standards of the day . |
| 25 | The Yasa provided for the settlement of disputes and affairs of honour only between the races of the True People , for they alone were equipped with the talons with which the kanly — formal mortal combat — was fought . |
| 26 | This belief was fostered by the churches , the floors and walls of which were incised with the records of those who had gone before , but it was expressed positively in the family . |
| 27 | Even for most of the 1950s contact was minimal , although under the San Francisco peace Treaty agreements were reached with the countries of Southeast Asia concerning Japanese reparation payments . |
| 28 | From August onwards the newspapers were over-flowing with the exploits of the various gangs in London : the ‘ Lion Boys ’ from the Lion and Lamb in Clerkenwell ; the so-called ‘ Clerkenwell ‘ pistol Gang' ’ ’ ; the ‘ Girdle Gang ’ which took its name from Thomas , alias ‘ Tuxy ’ , Girdle ; the ‘ Somers Town Gang ’ who were said to be the pests of Euston Road and Gower Street ; the ‘ Pinus Gang ’ who infested Leather Lane and Clerkenwell ; the ‘ Drury Lane Boys ’ ; the notorious ‘ Waterloo Road Gang ’ ; the ‘ Pickett Gang ’ ; , ‘ McNab 's ’ ; the ‘ Rest Gang ’ ; the ‘ Fulham Boys ’ ; the ‘ Chelsea Boys ’ ; the ‘ Velvet Cap Gang ’ ; the ‘ Plaid-Cap Brigade ’ from Poplar ; the gangs who romped around King Street and Great Church Lane in Hammersmith and who were said to be ‘ not ‘ Hooligans ’ ’ but worse' ; and many others , including a band of youngsters who had adopted the dare-devil title of the ‘ Dick Turpin Gang ’ . |
| 29 | Reverse-transcribed PCR ( RT-PCR ) was done with serial dilutions of LC and KC RNA and the amounts of E-cadherin PCR products were compared with the amounts of I-A α -chain and K1 PCR products in each sample . |
| 30 | Paykel ( 1979 ) describes his research in New Haven in which the life experiences of 185 depressed patients receiving hospital treatment were compared with the experiences of a random sample of the same number of adults in the general population over a six month period . |