Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [adj] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be stressed that the Belgian products are complementary rather that competitive with our own production . |
| 2 | Custis endorsed this in a reply , ‘ … he is the most takeing faceitious man I have ever met with and I never was so much delighted with a stranger in all my life ’ . |
| 3 | Since anthropology is so much involved with recreating alien belief-worlds , with all the varied and competing value-systems that exist in other cultures , just as in our own , literary critics who would wish to acquire more flexibility in dealing with that collision of view-points which forms the basic experience of drama could do worse than to consult the anthropologists . |
| 4 | Hutson is not so much preoccupied with the success of his latest bestseller Heathen ( Little Brown , £14.99 ) as his mother 's opinion of it . |
| 5 | You wo n't find so much wrong with me if you come to see Joe , the blacksmith , at the old forge , doing the old work . |
| 6 | In fact , hip hop and body pop are n't so much concerned with pure aggression as with survival . |
| 7 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 8 | The real issue , therefore , is not so much concerned with this or that IQ score and the chances of raising it as it is about the ingenuous , and often disingenuous , attempts to quantify the inheritance : learning ratio . |
| 9 | These changes are not so much concerned with the frequency or duration of ironing behaviour as with the precise form of the behaviours which make up ‘ ironing ’ . |
| 10 | However , the law , it would seem , was not so much concerned with those who drank as with those who sold their bodies for gain . |
| 11 | In this section we are not so much concerned with how many pounds are ‘ in the pay packet ’ , i.e. what is earned , but rather with the general conditions of employment experienced by the manual and non-manual sectors . |
| 12 | But ( as we said before in another connection ) even much of natural scientific activity does not conform to this model , is not so much concerned with explanation but with taxonomy , for example , or with finding out how things work , looking for things , and so on . |
| 13 | In chemistry , we are not so much concerned with static equilibria as dynamic equilibria . |
| 14 | I was not so much gratified with the interior of the country as I had anticipated but the people tell me I have seen it in an unfavorable season , in consequence of no rain having fallen for 3 months . |
| 15 | The home meadows were not so much white with snow as grey with sheep , a bleating , heaving block of woolly bodies , gathered in from the hills in the autumn and brought down to the Castle for feeding and safekeeping in the snows . |
| 16 | I want to first of all express our extreme pleasure for having the arrangements that were made by our good English friends , especially those associated with the Three-Ninetieth missile , well I 'm sorry but I 'll get that missile straightened out , Three-Ninetieth Memorial Air Museum . |
| 17 | They include house designers and manufacturers , especially those concerned with the production of child safety equipment ( CAPT , 1986 ) , children 's furniture and toys ; and household products , especially commonly used chemicals and other potentially dangerous substances and articles . |
| 18 | Penal reformers , especially those concerned with children , have consequently argued for playing it down , and penal legislation ( again , mostly in relation to children ) has sometimes responded . |
| 19 | We start this chapter by discussing some of the early sociologists , especially those concerned with one of our main themes ; the impacts of widescale social change on human association . |
| 20 | Commercial firms , especially those concerned with pharmacological and nutritional products , employ a limited number of veterinary advisers both in this country and overseas ; and there are opportunities for giving technical assistance to developing countries under the auspices of either the Overseas Development Administration or one of the United Nations external aid agencies . |
| 21 | Both technology and its accompanying organizational forms , especially those concerned with increasing efficiency , are thus the result of essentially political choices : ‘ when people enter into relationships of production they are , at the same time , engaged in a political process out of which emerge structures of domination and subordination , mechanisms of social control and forms of exploitation ’ ( Johnson 1980 , p. 335 ) . |
| 22 | There 's not much wrong with having to undo three screws at the back , although those machines with a lever or clip system are obviously easier to get into . |
| 23 | And , when all 's said and done , there 's not much wrong with a little wantonness here and there . |
| 24 | There 's not much wrong with having a tan — it 's part of our natural defence against sun damage — but we should try to prevent the damage getting out of hand . |
| 25 | Schools represent a relatively powerful series of environments , not all concerned with formal learning . |
| 26 | In other words , political faction as a regular and fundamental fact of Scottish political life burst fully into life after the death of James V , affecting not just those involved with the immediate concerns of central government but the kingdom as a whole . |
| 27 | Not usually this bad with a cold . |
| 28 | ‘ I want to hold you in my arms and kiss you till we 're both half crazy with it . ’ |
| 29 | Apart from the basic security arrangements that we 're probably all familiar with by now , he offered some interesting information . |
| 30 | In other fields — most notably those concerned with computers — both France and Britain have been far from successful . |