Example sentences of "mainly with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This thesis will be concerned mainly with the middle of these bands . |
| 2 | Kermode is concerned mainly with the teaching of literature in higher education . |
| 3 | These recent theories , whether they deal with an intellectual movement — the invention of a new doctrine — or with the social process of industrialization , are obviously concerned mainly with the nationalism of the twentieth century and with what are claimed to be its roots in the social , cultural and political changes which occurred in Western Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | The Seventh Directive ( 83/349/EEC ) , which dealt mainly with the requirement for parent undertakings to prepare consolidated accounts , was implemented by the Companies Act 1989 . |
| 5 | Chinese envoys in Europe and America did little negotiating : they were concerned mainly with the protection of Chinese abroad and with the collection of information and the purchase of guns , ships and machinery for their government . |
| 6 | ( The Caravan Sites Act , which deals mainly with the protection from eviction of caravan dwellers and gypsies , is similarly separate . ) |
| 7 | By the eighteenth century foreign offices , departments of state concerned simply or mainly with the making and execution of foreign policy , could be seen in embryo in many parts of Europe . |
| 8 | It was designed to be used when knitting pile and drive lace — though I suspect from the almost total lack of drive lace and pile garments that I 've seen , or rather not seen , that is used at all it 's mainly with the rib transfer carriage ! |
| 9 | This life history , which extends to 311 pages , deals mainly with the writer 's early life in Poland and his travels before coming to America ; in fact he only goes to America 17 pages from the end , at the age of 27 . |
| 10 | This book deals mainly with the purchase of business assets from a corporate vendor by a corporate purchaser . |
| 11 | One also supplied a report entitled ‘ Pan Am Flight 103 ’ , prepared in January 1989 by the intelligence unit of the Lebanese Forces , which had to do mainly with the substance of intercepted telephone calls to and from the Iranian Embassy in Beirut . |
| 12 | Remarkably , the Court relied on section 41 , which is concerned mainly with the provision by the Home Office of such things as police colleges and forensic science laboratories . |
| 13 | UUUC started with 3.8 quotas at Stage I but won four seats mainly with the assistance of over half Morrell 's ( UPNI ) votes on his elimination in Stage X. |
| 14 | Unfortunately , it deals mainly with the fighting , and says little about internal politics or the king , although what it does say is very interesting . |
| 15 | The first afternoon was spent mainly with the Superintendent and the second incorporated a full and relatively leisurely tour of the prison , seeing whatever I wished . |
| 16 | The initiative in budgetary matters rests mainly with the president , but , once he has submitted his proposals , they can not become law until they have obtained Congressional approval . |
| 17 | So far we have been concerned mainly with the market research aspects of marketing research . |
| 18 | Charman , whose address was printed on ‘ Once More ’ and ‘ This Boy Can Wait ’ dealt mainly with the administration of releasing a record by another Leeds band , Cud , called , ‘ You 're The Boss ’ . |
| 19 | This section deals mainly with the impact of mineral working , and the restoration of exhausted sites , in south and south east England although it is recognised that some of the most serious environmental problems occur in the National Parks and in areas where deep and opencast mining are carried out . |
| 20 | On the other hand , excitation within a band concerned mainly with the ligand might result in enhancement of the intensity of internal ligand vibrations of the resonance Raman spectrum ( Fig. 6.30 ) . |
| 21 | It may be true for many services which are involved mainly with the transmission of information such as financial , legal and educational services , but for other services such as catering and food preparation , film production or computer services , I am not so sure . |
| 22 | In the same century universal history also flourished , mainly with the object of determining the end of the world , after the year 1000 had passed without any sign of its impending occurrence . |
| 23 | As Evans-Pritchard explains , ‘ in every Zande household there is a fowlhouse , and fowls are kept mainly with the object of subjecting them to oracular tests . |
| 24 | So far , this chapter has been concerned mainly with the stock of dwellings and the stock of households . |
| 25 | Planning is divided between county councils and district councils with the day to day administration of planning applications resting mainly with the district councils . |
| 26 | He was soon caught up in the wartime expansion of government activity , being concerned mainly with the regulation of foreign trade . |
| 27 | They deal mainly with the analysis of secondary data , rather than multi-country analysis of survey data . |