Example sentences of "[adj] with [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only people they were not popular with were studio production crews . |
| 2 | The straight people I was friendly with were quite realistic about my gayness , even intrigued by it and grew to know what I did and who I met . |
| 3 | But one thing I was impressed with was the friendliness of everybody and the obvious joy that everybody felt . |
| 4 | One aspect I was n't terribly impressed with was the flimsy nature of the slide-out paper guides . |
| 5 | Among the many distinctive books that Terry was involved with was National Anthems of the World , constantly updated and now in its eighth edition . |
| 6 | The first production that he was involved with was a pantomime Dick Whittington . |
| 7 | What the sociology of knowledge became concerned with was the social processes that interfered with the production of true knowledge . |
| 8 | All he was concerned with was the generous fee in Czech crowns now buried under the floorboards of his tiny cottage in the High Tatra mountains . |
| 9 | The important thing we were concerned with was to keep those fakes off the market , and we were successful in that . |
| 10 | But he was selfish , all he was concerned with was going and getting his paper . |
| 11 | I am talking about grammar schools actually because erm the work that I was concerned with was in the secondary education which erm translated really means meant grammar school education , so that the schools that erm I had most contact with were the grammar schools . |
| 12 | Erm the work that I became , as it happened , mostly concerned with was the erm granting of major scholarships as they were then called which subsequently became called County Awards and er which were attainable in those days only at universities |
| 13 | But we need to get our moral thinking clear on this matter all the more because in the first stages of unbridled conflict both sides seem to be suggesting that there really was no moral problem at all because the principle that they were obsessed with was the only one that mattered . |
| 14 | The only touch I was remotely pleased with was an elegant , cane-handled parasol I 'd borrowed from a colleague . |