Example sentences of "were [vb pp] with [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several documents gave rise to concern as they were wrestled with in the appropriate commissions , none more so than the all-important Dogmatic Constitution on the Church . |
| 2 | At that time all cases were dealt with through the law courts , the establishment of guilt or innocence , together with the imposition of punishment the prime aims . |
| 3 | The Criminal Procedure ( Insanity and Unfitness to Plead ) 1991 was enacted as a result of major dissatisfaction with the way in which those found mentally unfit to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity were dealt with under the Criminal Procedure ( Insanity ) Act 1964 . |
| 4 | In all some 7,200 trading invoices were dealt with during the year and 1,500 stationery orders . |
| 5 | So it would be futile to say that no more than three or four , or at the very most five , of these categories were dealt with during the whole of the period of the Pathfinder Force . |
| 6 | All the salient points of Upton Sinclair 's story were dealt with in the film : the struggle of immigrant families , the careless methods in the food factories , the strike and riot following a 20 per cent wage reduction , and above all the main themes of the distinction between employer and employed and the ‘ wide and bridgeless chasm ’ between rich and poor . |
| 7 | It was encouraging news , but the second session drew to a close with the vexed issues of religious freedom and the Jews , which were dealt with in the final two chapters of the document on ecumenism , still undecided — though Cardinal Bea insisted they would be discussed in due course . |
| 8 | Some of those suprasegmental features were dealt with in the previous chapter . |
| 9 | In fact , petitions — which are scarcely known before 1272 — quickly became so numerous that by 1280 most were being redirected to the appropriate departments of royal government ( the exchequer and the chancery above all ) and only the remainder were dealt with by the king . |
| 10 | Evacuation was thus a constant migration of population — on Titmuss 's estimate , some 4 million people were dealt with by the government scheme over the course of the war — and in later waves many of the problems of inadequate medical inspection , inappropriate billeting , lack of schooling and so on were overcome . |
| 11 | 13 other travellers were dealt with by the court for a variety of motoring offences arising out of the Castlemorton event . |
| 12 | If the union found against him , that would indicate a minimum four-week ban , ruling him out of Wales 's opening home championship match against France next month — unless , that is , his case were dealt with within the next fortnight . |