Example sentences of "was [prep] [be] [verb] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like being socked with a Wellington boot full of mud . ’ |
| 2 | Most people ignored this commandment , although I have heard it said that Pike was to be seen with a compass on a number of occasions , trying to align himself correctly . |
| 3 | The game was to be decided with a nervewracking penalty shoot out … |
| 4 | Nicholson teamed up with his friend and former flatmate Don Devlin to write the script for a film called Thunder Island , a thriller which was to be shot with a tiny budget on a Caribbean island . |
| 5 | None of this , though , for Ifor or for Cis or , I presume , for the rest of the family , was to be compared with the fact that Richard Walter Jenkins Junior , aged eleven , passed a scholarship to the Secondary School and went there : the first Jenkins of that line ever to do so . |
| 6 | A united front was to be formed with the Nationalists . |
| 7 | As a financial centre with an open economy , as a trade intersection between Europe and the Middle East with a lucrative port in its capital , as a comparatively ‘ free ’ nation amid the dictatorships of the Arab world , Lebanon was to be blessed with the indulgence of both East and West , its modern-day caravanserais arriving hourly at the new international airport at Khalde . |
| 8 | Associated Press reported on March 26 that Pentacon , the Dresden company producing Praktica cameras , was to be merged with the west German company Beroflex , which made Rollei cameras , with the loss of 4,000 out of 5,000 jobs . |
| 9 | After the dinner , each of the Heads of State was to be presented with a small Luctian art form . |
| 10 | In these circumstances an election campaign was to be waged with the same zeal which would otherwise be reserved for a parliamentary election . |
| 11 | But it differed from the earlier plan in its concentration on the inter-city and suburban commuter services for which there was high demand , and it was to be achieved with a falling labour force rather than an expanding one . |
| 12 | He stressed that the meaning was to be contrasted with an error made in carrying out the testator 's intentions by the draftsman 's words , and also with a mistaken choice of words because of a failure to understand the testator 's intentions ( a matter covered by s 20(1) ( b ) of the Act . |
| 13 | The police at Southampton had got in touch with Bath , asking what was to be done with the bike , as it had apparently been abandoned . |
| 14 | Sometimes this was to be done with the aid of a department or institution studentship or scholarship . |
| 15 | The objective of the operation was to arrest Mr with the proviso that it was to be done with the safety of the public to be paramount and that the safety of the police officers and Mr was also to be considered . |
| 16 | This was to be expected with the land being the main basic ingredient in the viability of the business . |
| 17 | Husbandmen , as was to be expected with the most numerous class — and as the typical countrymen — comprehended a broad spectrum . |
| 18 | The anniversary was to be celebrated with a torchlit procession , military parade and fireworks . |
| 19 | Meese did in fact call while they were there , to set up an interview with North for the next day , Sunday : the interview in which he was to be confronted with the memorandum . |
| 20 | After 1934 this was to be combined with the anti-semitic obsession of both ultra-conservative reactionary fascism and racial nationalist traditions in the BUF , despite the fact that it was expressed in slightly less virulent form and appeared to have more social roots . |
| 21 | Four of the seven Scottish infantry regiments were to be amalgamated into other regiments , while the Ulster Defence Regiment was to be combined with the Royal Irish Rangers . |
| 22 | John of Salisbury tells us that a new custom had arisen in his time that on the day on which a young man was to be girded with the belt of knighthood he went solemnly to church , laid his sword on the altar , and offered himself and his service to God . |