Example sentences of "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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So in this way the Persians were able to advance with ease and the Egyptians were helpless to retaliate . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |