Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two possibilities were developed to deal with man 's new homelessness in the world , his exposure , as Foucault puts it , to the finitude of the event , which attempted to draw all these heterogeneous histories together again : either men sought for some fundamental law through which a new general history could be constituted , or historicity as such was defined in terms of ‘ man ’ — whether as progress , economic laws , or cultural totalities . |
| 2 | The Romans left fewer substantial marks on what they called Caledonia than they did on southern Britain , largely because so many of their attempts to establish regional centres collapsed when they were recalled to deal with unrest in southern Britain , or even back to Continental Europe and to Rome itself . |
| 3 | As well as maintaining a good posture , women were expected to move with grace , which was the principal reason for dancing lessons A woman attempting to achieve this ideal of beauty needed to spend a great deal of money , and so labouring class women were automatically excluded , even if they were possessed of ‘ natural ’ beauty . |
| 4 | Biological features of the colonizing vegetation were seen to change with time and from the rate of change in these features a time for ecosystem recovery was calculated . |
| 5 | The party considered that a building programme of 11 000 new dwellings over a 5-year period was required of which 3000 were needed to deal with slum clearance , 2000 to clear the priority waiting lists and a further 6000 for general waiting list applications . |
| 6 | In general , NCp7 mutants , which have been shown to be active in stimulating RNA dimerization , annealing of the primer tRNA to the PBS and the initiation of cDNA synthesis ( 6 ) , were found to interact with DNA and to protect DNA from endonuclease cleavage . |
| 7 | Since several gentlemen had already subscribed towards furthering Vial 's proposals , Penn , Stone and Gretton were asked to discuss with Vial the best way of amalgamating the two plans . |
| 8 | In his address to the meeting , Carlyle Guerra de Macedo , the director of the Pan American Health Organization ( a specialized organization of the Organization of American States , which served as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) ) , warned that 42,000 people could die from cholera unless firm measures were taken to deal with malnutrition and the lack of basic sanitary and medical facilities in the countries concerned . |
| 9 | Quaker businessmen were meant to act with integrity and caution . |
| 10 | In 1974 Lord Gardiner was appointed chairman of a committee to consider what provisions and powers , consistent to the maximum extent practicable in the circumstances with the preservation of civil liberties and human rights , were required to deal with terrorism and subversion in Northern Ireland , including provisions for the administration of justice ; and to examine the working of the Act of 1973 . |
| 11 | The T-shirt , worn here by Apache , was made to coincide with Prince 's current hit single , Sexy MF . |
| 12 | Such a threat was bound to meet with opposition . |
| 13 | The Bodleian Library was asked to help with advice on how to save the volumes and the conservator of books there remembered an after-dinner conversation a couple of years ago with Dr Roger Angold , of RHM . |