Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human thinking and language would dissolve into a topsy-turvy jumble of uncertainty if we were to use the word know as if it were interchangeable with words like guess or dream , or if we were to say right when we really meant wrong . |
| 2 | On 5 August he made a statement in which he said that Spain " was not begging for a place in any international organization and would certainly not accept any such place unless it were commensurate with her historical importance , size of population and her services to peace and culture " , including neutrality during the Second World War . |
| 3 | It was blue with a high red collar and I thought it cheap-looking and ugly . |
| 4 | you know reduced price but never-the-less money new cooker gas hob removed because that was going U S and an electric hob put in the formica in the kitchen , if you remember when you first saw me , it was tiles it was n't formica , it was ghastly tiles and when Ned lifted all that out it was black with with rotten mould ! |
| 5 | It was better with the pipe . ’ |
| 6 | On these cars it was not possible to remove the stanchion which had supported the stairhead lamp as it was integral with those carrying the deck screens . |
| 7 | It was low with an agreeable trace of huskiness and with a hint of more power than the frail body would suggest ; not an educated voice but one on which education had imposed a discipline which had n't quite obliterated the provincial , probably East Anglian , accent of childhood . |
| 8 | The Football Association of Ireland said last night that it was unhappy with FIFA 's decision . |
| 9 | Somewhat late in the day BBC Programme Planning decided it was unhappy with new seasons of Doctor Who opening around early November . |
| 10 | If it was agreeable with Ellie , he would be delighted to escort her to dinner and the opera on Saturday . |
| 11 | It was complete with cells and used regularly . |
| 12 | It was complete with bar and barman , hot-dog simmerer , king-sized double-doored two-tone refrigerator , drugstore hotplates , big-game trophies on the walls ( the host was a big-game hunter who acted in his spare time ) , and huge , deep , low divans and easy chairs — villainously uncomfortable for men , but marvellously made for cute little women who could tuck their cute little legs away and blazingly efface their cute little pretty little pouting little personalities in niches of the vast furniture and make like cute little pussycats . |
| 13 | It was involved with your trial and error and practice , but it was certainly involved with Vicky and that is watching , or learning from okay . |
| 14 | The UK , however , continued to distance itself from its Commonwealth partners on financial and trading and investment sanctions , stressing that it was dissatisfied with the pace at which its partners intended to lift them . |
| 15 | Yet Labour had a double advantage with the electors : its leaders had served with complete loyalty in the coalition , and had thereby secured valuable experience of government , mostly , to be sure , on the home front ; but the party in Parliament had also by its single rebellion in 1943 made it clear to all that it was dissatisfied with the coalition 's progress towards social reform . |
| 16 | Such a moral order was legitimate since it was consonant with the dictates of Providence or , in different intellectual terms , expressive of the natural order progressively opening to the minds of Enlightenment intellectuals through scientific investigation and freedom of thought . |
| 17 | It was cross-hatched with scars . |
| 18 | Even so , donors have also used aid to pursue their selfinterest regardless of whether or not it was compatible with that of the recipient . |
| 19 | He wanted peace , provided it was compatible with the superiority of the state and the then accepted view of that somewhat shifting concept , the sanctity of private property . |
| 20 | It was strange with Aunt Louise in the house , she and I alone together , our relationship a delicate bubble which must at all costs be kept floating intact . |
| 21 | It was peaceful with the plop-of the gas fire and the dark sky outside through the window , for like many old people Doris did not draw her curtains till late and Linda did not feel like going back to the bustle of tea-time , but she could n't keep them waiting for their tea . |
| 22 | Now , it was close with money . |
| 23 | And then it was all with stones and |
| 24 | It was loud with business chatter and general bustle as they entered . |
| 25 | It was possible with only a small selection of gouges to find the appropriate one to fit the circumference of the eyeball , using the gouge on both sides . |
| 26 | I found it was possible with Paradise to talk about individual and personal responsibility , something which if set in a contemporary context would have had a preachy feel about it . ’ |
| 27 | At first , this largely involved the search for loop-holes in central government legislation : if , for example , the rules suggested that future grant depended on spending in a particular year , then it was possible with little difficulty to prepare the accounts to show that spending had been higher or lower that year ( whichever was the required answer ) , More important , perhaps , as time went on , it become common for councils and their treasurers to seek new sources of funding which were not covered by the rules or were covered by different rules . |
| 28 | It was possible with work-card and booklets to give scope and variety to this work as well as necessary structure , and " the members of the team in their original discussions , will have built into the courses the skills and techniques they think should be learnt and practised by eleven-year-olds. " ( op. cit. : 8 ) |
| 29 | It was rich with character and humour . |
| 30 | A broken key had been replaced by one newly cut , and it was triple-strung with new gut strings . |