Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrangements were made for her to go to a home specialising in care for people who were motivated to look after themselves , and the staff were prepared to cope with the deafness . |
| 2 | While the leadership of the IFL was evidently opposed to Mosley , they were prepared to co-operate with the rank and file of his organization . |
| 3 | The Maronites were prepared to cooperate with the outside power because they correctly believed that the French wanted a future independent Lebanon which would look to France for protection . |
| 4 | The communists in Shanghai were influenced more by nationalism and were prepared to cooperate with the provisional government , nominally presided over by Rhee . |
| 5 | Most said that they had been surprised if not totally taken aback on the news of the merger ; but to various degrees said that they were prepared to work with the new ownership as long as the guarantees of openness and neutrality made by Novell regarding the development of System V.4 were maintained . |
| 6 | To this end , he assessed whether the modifications carried out were in the spirit of the DCs , that the modifications were adequate to cope with the SPRs submitted by clients , and that the quality of the total package satisfied the quoted project standards . |
| 7 | It was a pity that none of the Scandinavian allies were willing to co-operate with the scheme . |
| 8 | Giovanna and her friend Ninetta were willing to help with the hens , in fact to provide physical assistance in the premature delivery of eggs . |
| 9 | The workers in section 61 were angry because they felt , firstly , that the quotas of production allocated to white workers were unfair compared with the quota allocated to them ; secondly , because conditions of work were different for Asian workers — their washing times , lunch breaks and toilet breaks were restricted ; and thirdly because , although most of the workers were Asians , the union branch had an overwhelmingly white shop steward 's committee ( there was only one Asian shop steward ) which was not only uninterested in their struggles but actively opposed to them . |
| 10 | He spoke scornfully of us raw recruits and pointed out that we would have to get some service in before we were fit to associate with the real members of the Royal Air Force . |
| 11 | His engineers were glad to continue with the central job they had been engaged on before : the attempt to speed up power station completion rates in undertakings they now controlled more directly . |
| 12 | They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech . |
| 13 | I was petrified because all my sheets and tableclothes and all my cutlery and silver were all stamped with the Embassy crest . |
| 14 | The vertical and the horizontal structures of Germany were locked into a system of finance , into a particular sense of ‘ Kultur ’ and the drive to expand eastwards , that were all connected with the development of industry and the logic of capitalist modes of production . |
| 15 | It was confirmed this week that Ulster stars David Humphreys , Gary Longwell and Innes Gray were all staying with the students next season , with Humphreys as captain . |
| 16 | It is probable that , for a large part of our lives , little emphasis was placed on the use of imagination , colour and rhythm and yet we were all born with the potential to use our right brain just as much as the left . |
| 17 | The secretory studies were all performed with the investigator blind to the subjects ' H pylori state . |
| 18 | Until then the Greeks believed that recent events were unimportant compared with the exploits of the heroes in Trojan times . |
| 19 | The Panel found that the persons involved in the case were unlikely to comply with the standards expected in the conduct of UK takeovers and consequently reported its conclusions to the SIB , the SROs and RPBs for appropriate action by each of them in the light of their several cold shouldering rules . |
| 20 | He said South Africa 's security forces were unable to deal with the violence , adding : ‘ We are calling for the formation of an internal peace force … the only qualification should be that the peace force be composed of people who are committed to democracy in this country . ’ |
| 21 | It was a turbulent time for college principals , and many were unable to cope with the urgent demands for change which constantly assailed them — not least from their own undergraduates . |
| 22 | But the climate changed about 65 million years ago ( perhaps exacerbated by a bombardment of meteors ) and the dinosaurs , for reasons that are still unexplained , were unable to cope with the shift . |
| 23 | When , in April 1916 , the assistant matron , Miss Loader , and the children 's attendant , Miss Thomas , resigned on the grounds that they were unable to work with the matron , and when Mrs. Adams , the labour mistress , also appeared before the committee with a similar complaint , it was evident that all was not well . |
| 24 | Others say they were unable to comply with the surgeons instructions that they undertake no lifting or pulling for a period of time after the operation . |
| 25 | Of the 24 patients who fulfilled the entry criteria , six were unable to comply with the exigencies of the protocol and did not complete the run in period and one patient was later found to be misusing drugs and her data were not included in the analysis . |
| 26 | Pickets were unable to communicate with the strike-breakers as they were whisked by — peaceful persuasion was not possible . |
| 27 | We were unable to meet with the Chairwoman of the Iraqi Women 's Federation , Manal Younis , as at the time she was on a ship bound for Iraq with a cargo of medicines and milk . |
| 28 | On this issue Lansbury and the pacifist element in the Party were unable to compromise with the rest of the party . |
| 29 | People wore different clothes , shopped in privately-owned shops and were able to talk with the thousands of foreigners living , working in or touring China . |
| 30 | Some comments could be dealt with readily by changes to the draft statutory instruments but others were not so easy to resolve as they raise more fundamental questions and in these cases my officials were able to explore with the auditing practices board , whether issues could be more easily addressed in the statement of auditing standards which is being developed to accompany the legislation than in the statutory instruments themselves . |