Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [verb] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quedlinburg is now an unimportant town in the formerly East German Land of Sachsen-Anhalt , but it had its decades of glory in the early Middle Ages when it was closely connected with the German imperial court . |
| 2 | The rise of the Nevilles and the Percies in the late fourteenth century was the first occasion when families of genuine northern origin came into the front rank of the nobility — one may exclude the duchy of Lancaster from any such comment , because it was closely connected with the royal family and also held substantial lands in the Midlands and the South . |
| 3 | The Thannhauser Collection , to which this picture belongs , has been returned to the wing where it was formerly installed with the addition of ten works , including five canvases by Picasso and a painting by Monet , not previously represented in the museum . |
| 4 | In 1946 it was forcibly merged with the Communist Party into what was , and is , called the Socialist Unity Party ( SED ) . |
| 5 | What must be noted here is that much of the strength of the political ethos propagated in prewar years rested on its incorporation and distortion of concepts and assumptions whose origins were far back in Japanese history , and which were broadly unquestioned by the majority of the population ; and that it was firmly integrated with the social system and standard code of morality and behaviour . |
| 6 | Since it was generally associated with the corpuscular theory of matter it was a common idea in Locke 's time , though its details , and the arguments from which it was derived , were not always the same . |
| 7 | It was also left with a dilemma on how to proceed with employed solicitors . |
| 8 | From its first meeting it was also identified with the anti-slavery movement and this meant that it did not establish itself in America , where many religious leaders were wary of too close an identification with such a divisive issue . |
| 9 | It was already laid with a cloth , presumably for dinner . |
| 10 | It was steamed at the weekend and made an impressive sight when it was double headed with the line 's own former NCB No 20 . |
| 11 | It was immediately removed with a snare and replaced with a new one . |
| 12 | It was traditionally associated with the Veramin and Tehran weavers of north central Persia and can still be found in some Persian village and workshop items . |
| 13 | Anyhow , we had open views over the Heath and Vale of Health and it made a lovely family home even if it was badly designed with a huge wasteful " well " in the middle of the house which had the advantage of enabling us to come downstairs in a series of flying leaps , holding on to tall mahogany pillars at the corners of the stairway . |
| 14 | Once it was experimentally isolated with a highly-sexed female and was observed to mate several times , but the female failed to become pregnant , confirming the typical male tortoiseshell infertility . |
| 15 | The headmaster paused , reminding himself of his conclusion that the privilege of educating the sons of the royal house had been conferred on this school because it was uniquely endowed with a philosophy which informed all its actions and made it equal to the task . |
| 16 | From the New Kingdom onwards it was often protected with a large heart scarab , inscribed with chapter 30 of the Book of the Dead , exhorting it to act as true witness . |
| 17 | It was often drawn with the slopes exaggerated by a constant as natural slopes are usually so gentle . |
| 18 | It was possibly connected with a desire to discredit Æthelred , whose followers had murdered Edward , and who had acquired the throne as a result . |
| 19 | And she did n't think that it was totally connected with the arrival of that poison pen letter this morning . |
| 20 | Although the room was nearly twice the size of any of the other rooms , it was uncomfortably crowded with the dozen men packed into it . |
| 21 | Fear of the Communist " Trojan horse " was still present in the minds of the Executive , though it was now coupled with a desire to assert the Party 's independence from allies on the Right as much as on the Left . |
| 22 | They felt it was more to do with the wickedness of the world . |
| 23 | It was more to do with the jars of jam on the pantry shelves . |
| 24 | His eyes gleamed , but he imagined it was still to do with the vistas shown to the merchant by the Genius of Riches . |
| 25 | Consultations with other doctors in Britain suggested that something like this format may well have been fairly common in the past with the very poorest patients , while modern studies of casualty departments revealed that something approximating to it was still used with the most stigmatised of patients . |
| 26 | To my knowledge there was hardly a political problem with which George was confronted where he did not seek the advice and guidance of Crossman , but it was always associated with a healthy denunciation . |
| 27 | Despite a grim weather forecast the previous day , with the threat of thunderstorms , it turned out to be a sunny day — and it was quickly blessed with a record-breaking inward half of 29 by Mark Calcavecchia . |
| 28 | It was all to do with the silence , and the wine stain — turning now from red to black as it spread and seeped . |
| 29 | Last month I wrote about setting up the ribber and making sure it was correctly aligned with the main bed . |
| 30 | It was apparently replaced with the claim that Edward 's children were illegitimate , because Edward , before his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville , had been betrothed to another woman . |