Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was with the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Prisoners being trained in woodwork explained that their major frustration was with the shortage of tools and materials . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Good fortune was with the government : world economic conditions improved and heralded a period of sustained growth in industrial output and trade . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His only concern was with the integrity of souls in obedience to the laws of God . |
| 10 | Our only problem was with the doubling up . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Dave , a committee member of the council estate branch , said how unpopular the local MP was with the members . |