Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was with [art] " 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 | For the next 2000 years the abstract/axiomatic approach was with a few exceptions replaced by a more concrete intuitive approach . |
9 | Prisoners being trained in woodwork explained that their major frustration was with the shortage of tools and materials . |
10 | By Paul I 's time , however , Russia 's primary concern was with the destabilizing energy radiating from revolutionary France . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Good fortune was with the government : world economic conditions improved and heralded a period of sustained growth in industrial output and trade . |
13 | The most important interview was with the 2ème Bureau , the Military branch of French Intelligence ; it was their opinion which was ultimately decisive . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | But to the new professional researcher a Hellenic ideal was something that belonged to the modern world outside ; and while he might privately approve , his professional concern was with a self-contained world of antiquity . |
17 | His only concern was with the integrity of souls in obedience to the laws of God . |
18 | Our only problem was with the doubling up . |
19 | ‘ Oh yes ! ’ d'Arquebus agreed fervently — and Yeremi realised how enraptured Lexandro was with the heroic fate in store for them . |
20 | One meeting of particular significance was with a young dissenting bookseller called Joseph Cottle , whose shop stood at the corner of Corn Street and High Street , a few yards from Southey 's birthplace . |
21 | 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 ) . |
22 | The Court of Appeal has taken the matter a step further in Shomer v B&R Residential Lettings Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 Industrial Relations Legal Information Bulletin 2 , by holding that in making the comparison with a hypothetical sick man , all relevant circumstances must be taken into account so that where , as in this case , there had been misconduct by the pregnant woman , the correct comparison was with a sick man who had also been guilty of misconduct . |
23 | The other encounter was with a young white couple , Don and Penny . |
24 | But his main preoccupation was with the unfinished Requiem , which had begun to prey on his mind . |
25 | Dave , a committee member of the council estate branch , said how unpopular the local MP was with the members . |