Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [was/were] with the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The initial concerns of the Board were with the transfer of responsibilities from the Law Society and their subsequent management .
2 It does not allege that the mother made any contract in reference to the child — the contract was with the mother in respect of herself alone .
3 At first the difficulty was with the mahouts rather than the koonkies .
4 At the end of the night , the luck was with the opposition , but Roy and Judy still had a good night out .
5 But Mr Stewart maintained the fault was with the plane and wrong signals had been sent to the flightdeck .
6 The girl was with the children . ’
7 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 .
8 The delay was with the approval of District Council at the request of the developer , who asked for time to consider if Hill could be improved .
9 When , during the 1930s and 1940s , the concern was with the quantity as much as with the quality of population this particular objection carried little weight , although being drawn upon as a reason for not restricting a national scheme of family allowances to the working classes alone .
10 He said he believed the Emperor was with the troops on the Brussels road , but he had not personally seen him .
11 The problem was with the principle of benefit , since the debtor had received no benefit mortis causa , and arguably no benefit at all .
12 Sir , at that stage , the emphasis seemed to be erm a connection er whether the connection was principally with other land outside or whether the connection was with the settlement , rather than the nature of the land itself .
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