Example sentences of "[noun sg] was with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Stewart maintained the fault was with the plane and wrong signals had been sent to the flightdeck . |
| 2 | The most important interview was with the 2ème Bureau , the Military branch of French Intelligence ; it was their opinion which was ultimately decisive . |
| 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 | We chatted a little after the movie and well out over the Atlantic at 37,000ft I commented that a lot of my consultancy work was with the British Conservative Party . |
| 5 | All of their work was with the ball . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the sort of conflict situation in which Benjamin Spock ( 1946 ) would suggest ‘ distracting him to something interesting but harmless ’ or ‘ give him a graceful way out ’ ( from a temper tantrum ) , or where Susan Isaacs in 1932 tells the mother ‘ not to be too ready to treat any momentary defiance as an immediate occasion for a pitched battle of wills ’ , the Evangelicals and their followers were , on the contrary , eager to seize upon such an opportunity , since their battle was with the devil himself , and the child 's spiritual salvation at stake ; distraction was the last thing they would have advised , for it was their urgent intention to rouse in the young child a vivid appreciation of his own shortcomings , as being the quickest and most effective means of subjugating his will to higher authority . |
| 8 | One of the earliest preoccupations of the Council was with the implications , for the curriculum and for teaching , of the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen , urged powerfully in the Crowther Report and now by its successor , the Newsom Report , published in 1963 . |
| 9 | Our concern as Borough Council was with the er inner relief road options that that had links into the urban area . |
| 10 | The girl was with the children . ’ |
| 11 | Despite Hekmatyar 's public avowal that his war was with the Uzbek militia and not with other mujaheddin groups , analysts were agreed that he had stepped up the military pressure against the government to prevent Rabbani from consolidating his position and marginalizing the Hezb-i-Islami . |
| 12 | The falconer had authority and poise , she remained in control of the whole operation , and her attention was with the bird at each second of its flight — all while delivering a running commentary ! |
| 13 | Although there were some reservations of this kind in both industry and the institutions the balance of opinion was with the sandwich course , and within the Committee for Science and Technology and its boards the commitment to sandwich courses remained strong . |
| 14 | To the Incas hell was a subterranean , cold place where you lived on stones : heaven was with the sun . |
| 15 | Most of Herrick 's business was with the Above . |
| 16 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
| 17 | The delay was with the approval of District Council at the request of the developer , who asked for time to consider if Hill could be improved . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh yes ! ’ d'Arquebus agreed fervently — and Yeremi realised how enraptured Lexandro was with the heroic fate in store for them . |
| 19 | Bain 's most costly legal conflict was with the powerful American company Morse over an alleged infringement of copyright . |
| 20 | About half British trade was with the Commonwealth and Sterling Area ( countries trading in British currency ) whereas only about a quarter was with Europe . |
| 21 | Also , half of Britain 's trade was with the EC , compared to about one-third in 1973 . |
| 22 | The concern of Freud 's theory was with the confusions and contradictions , the happiness and the misery , in modern society . |
| 23 | A county council spokesman said speed checks would be carried out but a final decision on imposing a speed limit was with the Department of Transport . |
| 24 | Prisoners being trained in woodwork explained that their major frustration was with the shortage of tools and materials . |
| 25 | Their first success was with the Rostam field , close to Qatar 's offshore terminal at Halul . |
| 26 | Our last recording was with the cellist António Meneses , which I admired very much because of the great beauty of line Meneses was able to bring to the epilogue . |
| 27 | Throughout 1815 Miloš maintained that his quarrel was with the oppressive regime of Süleiman Pasha and not with the sultan . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The coining of the term ‘ ideology ’ is normally attributed to Destutt de Tracy whose concern was with the ‘ science of ideas ’ which sought the origins of ideas in human sensations . |
| 30 | His concern was with the consciousness of groups , specifically classes and particularly the proletariat . |