Example sentences of "was [adj] with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking through the rubble , Ruth saw the whole Castle was alive with the sparks of spears . |
| 2 | The whole place was alive with the wings and calls of sea-birds . |
| 3 | The whole specimen was alive with the wretches that are the polio viruses , at their very worst , attacking the whole spinal column and the brain tissue . |
| 4 | As was usual with the rulers of the British empire , moral display served a dual purpose , being intended not only to improve native character but also to stimulate native loyalty . |
| 5 | India 's Environment Minister , Kamal Nath , said that he was dissatisfied with the conditions governing aid to developing nations to help them produce alternatives to chlorofluorocarbons . |
| 6 | P. S. You 'd get a feller that was friendly with the bosses . |
| 7 | Fortunately the man with this powerful patron was popular with the parishioners , but one can not help suspecting , from Montrose 's comments , that this was really a secondary consideration : |
| 8 | He was popular with the grooms and the coachmen and yet they respected him and his discipline was firm . |
| 9 | The hospital already had a tank installed , which was popular with the children , but it was now rather dilapidated and the stand was n't very safe . |
| 10 | My approach was successful and I was popular with the pupils , the parents , and the headmaster . |
| 11 | But Horsley was popular with the Founders on a personal level . |
| 12 | If a player was granted a good fixture , if the weather held fair , and if the player was popular with the supporters , a good sum might be raised . |
| 13 | Or if , as was soon clear to many , something was wrong with the claims , it would be possible to show how the standard workings of science can design experiments to answer specific questions , strategically closing in on the truth . |
| 14 | Gay was delighted with the games room-to-be , and had a valuable suggestions to make . |
| 15 | Margaret McGloin , South Tees Community and Mental Care officer , said she was delighted with the achievements being made in developing integrated communitybased services . |
| 16 | Dr Philip Mannion at Chester public health laboratory said he was delighted with the results so far . |
| 17 | She was delighted with the gifts . |
| 18 | Granny , they said , was a good Christian woman , though I knew like a flame burns true that she was perfect with no riders , the empress of her acres , her livestock . |
| 19 | I was bored with the arguments over the map . |
| 20 | Hepatic bile was supersaturated in a similar way in patients with cholesterol gall stones and gall stone free patients , which was consistent with the findings of Carey et al and Gallinger et al . |
| 21 | Either way , the position of women reflected by the dowry system was consistent with the Asians ' new petit-bourgeois role in East Africa . |
| 22 | But the former was impossible with the twins in tow and the latter unthinkable given the length of time he 'd have to wait for one on a Sunday . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) The power reserved to the landlord to deprive the applicants of exclusive occupation was inconsistent with the provisions of the Rent Acts . |
| 24 | Chadwick implies that musical differences were the cause , saying that Walker 's style was inconsistent with the parts that Guy wrote for him to play . |
| 25 | These trials demonstrated , however , that the rice-based solution was unpopular with the mothers owing to the scarcity of firewood ( which was required to make the solution ) , and the tradition that very young children are not fed rice . |
| 26 | Switching between one-day and five-day mode was unpopular with the players , and the new showbiz-style razzmatazz that accompanied the games seemed specifically designed to cater for the drunken yobbos who turned up by the cartload . |
| 27 | Early in his reign he realized that liberalism was unpopular with the masses , and he deliberately scorned the classes : his power , as Lord Liverpool observed from a distance , was based on an alliance of proletariat and priests against ‘ landlords ’ and middle classes . |
| 28 | She was thrilled with the suffragettes ' tenacity and the expression it gave to her feelings about being in some kind of sexual trap . |
| 29 | When I was eyeball-to-eyeball with the humiliations of puberty , my greatest hero was skiffler Lonnie Donegan . |
| 30 | He could not admit to his own heart that Surere was involved with the girls ' killings ; though perhaps — the dark thought was there — Huy was afraid to admit such a thing was possible , as he would then , however innocently , have played a part in their deaths . |