Example sentences of "was with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 So it was with no plans for the future that Troy found himself at Greenhill fair , dangerously close to Weatherbury .
2 The company 's first problem was with the ASICs which proved six months late .
3 The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years .
4 By the time the shops are full of Thunderbirds toys again , the craze will be over — as it was with the Turtles .
5 He was with the Americans all the time — certainly till after we found the body .
6 When I was with the cattle I always wore my the cap on the side of my head .
7 It ended up being a great three days music and two weeks later , I was with The Waterboys . ’
8 Descartes , indeed , was with the armies of Maximilian of Bavaria in 1619 at the very beginning of the Thirty Years War when , at Neuberg on the Danube , he had that sequence of dreams which convinced him that his mission was to seek out truth by means of reason .
9 Taff was with the 3″ mortar team as they continued to send over the occasional mortar bomb , their target a crossroads at the other end of the village .
10 He would also have become even more unpopular than he already was with the Pharisees , who were bitterly opposed to the Roman occupation .
11 Unfamiliar as she was with the niceties of English social life , she wondered why she should be surprised .
12 But if it 's like it was with the others , it wo n't be easy . ’
13 Dave , a committee member of the council estate branch , said how unpopular the local MP was with the members .
14 24 above ) was with the laws of kashrut , pollutions from secretions of various bodily orifices , and , as we have seen above , legislation about the cult and priesthood .
15 The girl was with the children . ’
16 She was with the children er er , looking at the stage , to the left .
17 She was with the children .
18 It had been in Essex that , out of discontent with sitting at home , Leslie had requested a posting abroad ; and it was somehow appropriate that it was with the men of Essex that he should have ended the North African campaign .
19 He made his first appearance for Northampton Town at the age of 15 in a London Combination match with QPR and while he was with The Cobblers he was spotted by Tom Bromilow , a former Palace manager , who was then with Leicester City .
20 This act led , with Henry VIII 's blessing , to Beaton 's murder two months later ; and it was while he was with the Castalians in St Andrews that Knox first went far further than any earlier reformer in Scotland .
21 The concern of Freud 's theory was with the confusions and contradictions , the happiness and the misery , in modern society .
22 One of the earliest preoccupations of the Council was with the implications , for the curriculum and for teaching , of the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen , urged powerfully in the Crowther Report and now by its successor , the Newsom Report , published in 1963 .
23 We saw how it was with the plants and the seeds , and the birds and their eggs but the animals God made could not make nests and lay eggs , because they were so much larger .
24 ‘ When I was with the Rockman-Queens we had a number of clients who were high in the diamond trade .
25 At first the difficulty was with the mahouts rather than the koonkies .
26 and that was with the doors from Texas and he thought oh no you know
27 On the following morning , a service began on the muir , conducted by the Rev. Mr. Douglas , a minister who was with the Covenanters .
28 Sympathy was with the generals rather than the Prime Minister , hardly surprisingly in view of past events , but sympathy never went far enough to weaken Lloyd George 's position greatly .
29 He said he believed the Emperor was with the troops on the Brussels road , but he had not personally seen him .
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