Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] with [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | There had to be agencies and clinics that were competent to deal with drug abuse , while the best I could be was an enthusiastic amateur , and that was rarely good enough . |
| 4 | but they were all to do with sort of satellite dishes and it was in their reception area and it had satellite T V on , and it was an advertising thing as much |
| 5 | His future liberties with techniques were all to do with representation . |
| 6 | Similarly , the Wallabies were unable to play with continuity in the first half of the Second Test at Ballymore because of a string of penalties but were finally able to chain together some magical passages of play . |
| 7 | The authors therefore examined the data for explanations as to why some women were more vulnerable than others , or , expressed another way , why some women seemed resilient to , or protected from , or were able to cope with adversity such that they did not develop clinical depression . |
| 8 | So in this way the Persians were able to advance with ease and the Egyptians were helpless to retaliate . |
| 9 | Three reasons are given by Bacon and Eltis : both Conservative and Labour governments , because of their adherence to Keynesian economics , were anxious to deal with unemployment quickly by tinkering with the economy ; because of the public demand for improved social services ; and because extra jobs in the public services could be provided cheaply and quickly since no extra capital investment was necessary as would be the case in industry . |
| 10 | And there was still an extraordinary shadow of tiredness on his face , as if his eyes were ready to bruise with exhaustion , he often looked like that . |
| 11 | I believe , therefore , that Rousseau was right to look with apprehension on the fragmentation of society into a collection of interest groups , and to see that in such circumstances it is all too easy for the general interest , the good of the community as a whole , to be lost sight of . |
| 12 | If he was willing to part with stock as well , the market-maker would quote a two-way price . |
| 13 | When the bedroom door finally closed behind them , Rory was fit to burst with laughter , and told her so . |
| 14 | A propaganda of peace based on the readiness of objectors to undergo hard labour was likely to meet with derision , if not anger , at a time when hundreds of thousands of young men were fighting and dying for their country in far more appalling conditions . |
| 15 | Wordsworth contributed to the growth of ‘ Humanity ’ , the climate of opinion in which Shaftesbury was able to proceed with factory legislation ; and surely his attitude of reverence towards landscape formed public opinion , so that one now needs planning permission to site a factory and the line of a motorway has to be negotiated ; certain areas have become National Parks , and one can not help noticing how many of these were districts where Wordsworth lived or with which he was in some way associated ( see Gazetteer ) . |
| 16 | Consequently Hunt earned the thanks of The Civil Engineer and Architects ' Journal for his innovation , and a few days later in the House , Gladstone was able to say with satisfaction that ‘ for the first time in the history of public edifices in the metropolis ’ , it was possible to state what the real cost would be . |
| 17 | He was able to plan with precision and enthusiasm the date of his own retirement , to look forward to it because it was in no way forced upon him , and to believe that he would be remembered with affection and regret . |
| 18 | I was in love before I left England and the hope of marriage was such a spur that with help from the two Williams , I was able to pass with distinction not only two , but three exams . |
| 19 | As it was , he was obliged to behave with decorum . |