Example sentences of "it was with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |
| 2 | When Sikh men came to Britain in the fifties it was with the hope of making some money ( usually to buy more land for the family farm ) and returning . |
| 3 | The reason for this is that Germany 's huge trade surplus is overwhelmingly with the Community ( approx. 70% of it was with the EC , although in late 1991 , there has been a significant drop , albeit temporarily , in Germany 's surplus ) . |
| 4 | So it was with the boy . |
| 5 | It was with the building of the railways connecting Provence with Paris and the north , with Marseille and the ports of the Mediterranean to the south , that the possibilities of the Rhone and Durance valleys for intensive fruit and vegetable cultivation first began to be understood . |
| 6 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 7 | Again , it was with the help of Phil Andrews , who was No.1 on Venturous at that time , with Bob Wellock , an ex air/sea RAF coxswain from Liverpool Customs in command whom I was meeting for the first time . |
| 8 | By the time the shops are full of Thunderbirds toys again , the craze will be over — as it was with the Turtles . |
| 9 | As this meeting is in camera it is allowable at this stage to point out that certain elements in this family , being of — er — immigrant origin , ah , have a totally different conception of the role of a daughter in a family and of parental rights , and while doing all they could to respect the traditions of minority ethnic groups , and in particular the rather dominant role of the father in such societies , in the last resort it was with the protection of a minor that the Council was concerned according to the law of this country . |
| 10 | But if it 's like it was with the others , it wo n't be easy . ’ |
| 11 | When Alice roused herself , it was with the realization that her husband was already in the house . |
| 12 | But in the end , I am sure that it was with the public at large that his influence counted most . |
| 13 | When men looked at her it was normally with admiration ; when they spoke to her it was with the awe they felt when confronted by her beauty . |
| 14 | It was with the picture . |
| 15 | Apart from Brighton and St Leonards , Jane Austen 's ‘ Sanditon ’ , set in Sussex , was probably more common , observed as it was with the author 's customary bite : |
| 16 | It was with the onset of a more variable temperature , and the beginning of climatic zones , in the late Paleozoic , that gave rise to vertebrates attempting to employ primitive temperature-control strategies . |
| 17 | The " idea " of a Papal State had appeared very early , and definitely by the ninth century , but it was with the reform movement of the eleventh and early twelfth century that the notion of an independent Papal State really took hold . |
| 18 | The first time I made love it was with the ground . |
| 19 | But it was with the coming of sound , in 1929 , that Colman 's Hollywood career really came into its own : the producer Sam Goldwyn was the first to realize the magic of that infinitely poetic , English voice , and put him under a long-term contract which was to last virtually the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was with the weather being so bad . |
| 21 | We saw how it was with the plants and the seeds , and the birds and their eggs but the animals God made could not make nests and lay eggs , because they were so much larger . |
| 22 | It was with the trifle that the gross and embarrassing incident occurred , the event that Nicandra was to remember , squeamishly and for always . |
| 23 | When he returned to Oxford in 1773 it was with the intention of claiming the first suitable benefice in the gift of New College to become vacant . |
| 24 | This is indicative of how the development of local knowledge is seen by the neighbourhood men as a key measure of their competence and effectiveness , as it was with the section police . |
| 25 | But then the other stuff started happening , personal things , just like a soap opera , the same sort of chaos as it was with the Jeremy/Peter/Danny saga . |
| 26 | When I woke up it was with the certainty that I had solved an extremely important problem and was eager to try it out at once . |
| 27 | It was with the aim of contributing to such an improvement , as the representative body of employers and business investors , that the 1988 Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) Task Force on business and urban regeneration came to three conclusions : first ( in line with the Government 's own beliefs ) , that business must take the lead in reversing urban decline ; second , that charity — governmental or voluntary — can not in itself deal with problems , and any regeneration must spring from private investment , commercially motivated ; and third , that the potential exists for such investment , provided that early projects are seen to succeed ( CBI , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | It was with the introduction of the American ‘ big jets ’ ( Boeing 707 , Douglas DC-8 and Convair 880 and 990 ) in 1959 that the FAA brought in legislation requiring the fitment of FDRs to turbine powered public transport aircraft . |
| 29 | And so it was with the Notting Hill Gate Classic cinema around 1969 . |
| 30 | It had been in Essex that , out of discontent with sitting at home , Leslie had requested a posting abroad ; and it was somehow appropriate that it was with the men of Essex that he should have ended the North African campaign . |