Example sentences of "were [adj] [adv] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stones edging the flower beds were dark now with rain . |
| 2 | These institutions were concerned mainly with gymnastics and confined largely to women until after the Second World War . |
| 3 | Talks with government leaders in each of the countries were concerned mainly with trade issues , the future of Antarctica , relations with China in the wake of the suppression of the pro-democracy movement , arms control , the crisis in the Middle East , environmental issues and a range of bilateral issues . |
| 4 | Sustained flight could then arise at a still later stage through the evolution of a basal articulation and the development of flapping movements using tergocoxal muscles that were concerned primitively with leg movements ( Tiegs , 1955 ) . |
| 5 | Soon Witney and I were busy elsewhere with hacksaw and medium chisel , attaching a farcically mangled leg to an unknown and shrouded figure , at the thigh , in a kind of rain of blood , a snow of bone . |
| 6 | In the case of mouth , if one knew what an animal 's mouth was , and one were to hear , for the first time , a reference to the mouth of a river , I surmise that there would be little difficulty in construing the meaning ; but suppose one were familiar only with mouth used to refer to the mouth of a river , and one heard a reference to the horse 's mouth , it is by no means certain that one 's attention would be directed to the appropriate end of the horse ! |