Example sentences of "[vb past] with the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Part of the wall is constructed from slag blocks , a testimony to the days when Fromebridge rang to the sound of tilt-hammers and roared with the noise of forges — unlike now , a relative peace having once again returned to this lovely and fascinating mill .
2 A change which came with the formation of Chemicals & Polymers was the switching of methanol to the petrochemicals business .
3 The demise of the flying boat came with the development of jets and the spread of concrete runways .
4 As at Tottenham last Wednesday , West Ham played with the look of men resigned to their fate — only more so .
5 Frere watched him go , and such hopes as he might briefly have entertained receded with the clop of hooves .
6 Many of the most popular plants in gardens today fist arrived with the flood of introductions which filled our nurseries and gardens over a fifty-year period .
7 Her eyes glowed with the remembrance of things past .
8 They spoke of the loneliness and sense of abandonment , and the way in which this interfered with the use of tears as a healing experience .
9 This process began with the development of transistors in the 1950's .
10 After all every great House of Lords decision , which does not involve a departure from precedent , began with the presentation of issues at first instance .
11 The soldiers ' departure marked the end of Russia 's nine-year and 50-day occupation which began with the airlift of troops into Afghanistan at Christmas , 1979 .
12 The wicker industry began with the manufacture of copies of cane furniture — popular at that time in Germany and Britain — for the British families , and then for the hotels in Funchal .
13 Supposedly , the development of northeastern China began with the co-operation of Manchurians , Mongols , Chinese and Koreans ; but the Japanese army , the Kwangtung , planned to control Manchuria as a colony of Japan .
14 The process began with the emergence of standards for individual businesses such as the automotive industry , where the pan-European standard is known as Odette .
15 It existed until 1842 when , through the efforts of its president William Tite , it merged with the Institute of Architects .
16 He escaped with the help of Bosnians , who gave him civilian clothes to replace his army uniform , and a network of ethnic Hungarians , dodging military police across the country until he made it over the border to Szeged .
17 During World War I he worked with the Ministry of Munitions , being concerned with iron-ore supplies .
18 And the halls of plastic America rang with the laughter of heroes .
19 This was a tendency which coincided with the elimination of mothers and young children from employment in the wake of technological innovations which particularly diminished the kinds of work in which traditionally they had participated .
20 Perhaps the outstanding legacy of Napoleon 's invasion lay with the bevy of experts he had brought with him who created the " Institute d'Egypte " producing numerous volumes that were to launch Egyptology in the Western academic world and , in time , to remind educated Egyptians of former glories .
21 And it was not until several years later , after Picasso and Braque evolved new methods of dealing with solid forms in their paintings , through their papier colles and constructions , that there emerged with the work of men like Laurens and Lipchitz a real school of Cubist sculpture .
22 Then Montini dealt with the order of questions the Council had to answer ( he had already developed this in a letter to Pope John only a week after the Council began ) .
23 Hut 6 dealt with the recording of intercepts of German army and air force Enigma , and the decoding of them after the key of the day had been determined from the brilliant deductions of the code-breakers .
24 In the , when we dealt with the matter of children and communion , we based the whole case upon the doctrine that nothing must be allowed to stand in the way of the grace of God being available for all and sundry .
25 He dealt with the seizure of ships , enforced the embargo on Spanish trade , and watched for enemy ships .
26 Stars glittered with the brilliance of jewels against a velvet backcloth .
27 High-level talks in Beijing on Nov. 5-10 between China and Vietnam ended with the normalization of relations after a 20-year rift .
28 Once again the clear air sparkled with the song of birds and the young leaves trembled with their movement .
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