Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] was with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commercial settlement was with the South Western Regional Health Authority and concerned an alkali silica reaction — concrete cancer — in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital . |
| 2 | About half British trade was with the Commonwealth and Sterling Area ( countries trading in British currency ) whereas only about a quarter was with Europe . |
| 3 | Against this background the main concern of Japanese labour was with the basic struggle to live , and to stay alive they needed an income from work . |
| 4 | But since his principal concern was with the psychological effect of poetry on the reader , he did not carry this sort of analysis very far . |
| 5 | Bauer was on the Left , so , unlike Renner , his central preoccupation was with the creation of a united working-class movement for the achievement of a socialist State , but undertaken in conditions where nationalism continually divided the workers . |
| 6 | Von Schelting 's principal problem was with the difficulty of maintaining the possibility of a social science in the face of the sociology of knowledge because Mannheim had destroyed ‘ its objective , impartial validity ’ ( von Schelting 1936 : 666 ) . |
| 7 | Bain 's most costly legal conflict was with the powerful American company Morse over an alleged infringement of copyright . |
| 8 | Prisoners being trained in woodwork explained that their major frustration was with the shortage of tools and materials . |
| 9 | By Paul I 's time , however , Russia 's primary concern was with the destabilizing energy radiating from revolutionary France . |
| 10 | He was resigned to the thought of English culture sliding , as it were , into the abyss and his major preoccupation was with the past and his own place in it . |
| 11 | Good fortune was with the government : world economic conditions improved and heralded a period of sustained growth in industrial output and trade . |
| 12 | The most important interview was with the 2ème Bureau , the Military branch of French Intelligence ; it was their opinion which was ultimately decisive . |
| 13 | And although my initial work was with the individual child , I found that in a large number of cases , the parental interest was of a high order and , and the children 's willingness to involve parents in their behavioural difficulties was also of a high order , so I found myself working not just within the school , not just with the child , but in a parent-child situation . |
| 14 | His initial concern was with the transition from work to retirement and he has subsequently been involved in work on health education , notably the role of community care as it relates to older people . |
| 15 | His only concern was with the integrity of souls in obedience to the laws of God . |
| 16 | Our only problem was with the doubling up . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh yes ! ’ d'Arquebus agreed fervently — and Yeremi realised how enraptured Lexandro was with the heroic fate in store for them . |
| 18 | For such men , enclosure of their lands could be the next step ( 62 ) , and it is worth remembering that even John Hales , the mid-sixteenth-century opponent of enclosures , was prepared to admit that enclosure per se was not necessarily evil : his particular concern was with the turning of arable fields into pasture ( 58 , p.180 ) . |
| 19 | But his main preoccupation was with the unfinished Requiem , which had begun to prey on his mind . |
| 20 | Dave , a committee member of the council estate branch , said how unpopular the local MP was with the members . |