Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as the days went on the truth became less difficult to live with than it had threatened to be , and she knew that she would never leave her husband because she , too , was to blame . |
| 2 | Certainly the resulting curriculum looks rather dull compared with the initial considerations which offered the possibility of a refreshing new view . |
| 3 | The tendency for distinctions between labour and management to appear less overt connects with the widely expressed view that class consciousness is not important to the Japanese . |
| 4 | I really can not come to terms with the fact that I am … there 's lots of interesting work to do — there was in the job I did — and I want so much to identify with that rather than just sit back here and say ‘ I 'm a housewife and I 'm happy ’ … because I could n't be . |
| 5 | Even this 1.8GL model , with the more powerful 90 bhp engine , is no ball of fire , and the standard 1.4-litre 60 bhp model looks distinctly sluggish compared with most rivals . |
| 6 | But for me and many others , old school is something that transcends fashion and has precious little to do with paying £60 in London for something that cost $5 in the backstreets of Chicago . |
| 7 | There is also the ‘ to-hell-with-them-all ’ vote of the dispossessed , increasingly common throughout Europe , which has precious little to do with specific constitutional demands . |
| 8 | However , most of the information you see on Prestel has precious little to do with British Telecom . |
| 9 | Most film crews want as little to do with their subjects as possible , yet the Ashleys immediately-became involved in our lives and we in theirs . |
| 10 | But it has comparatively little to do with his holistic claim that individuals are merely the ‘ supports ’ or ‘ bearers ’ of social practices . |
| 11 | The decline of countries has as much to do with the loss of vision as any other factor . |
| 12 | All report a passionate directness of response that they attribute to the setting and the pathology of the patients , but which probably has as much to do with social class . |
| 13 | This has as much to do with the aural texture of guitar-based rock as with funk or soul , and their records often fail to gain airplay on rap specialist radio shows . |
| 14 | That Miro is not as well known as his contemporaries Picasso and Dali has as much to do with personality as with art . |
| 15 | Capital flight has as much to do with political structures as with a loss of confidence . |
| 16 | The vehement anti-US feeling in Nicaragua ( so often cited as the latest Communist ‘ gain ’ in Latin America ) has as much to do with the history of US involvement in the country ( not to mention its current support for counter-revolutionary activity ) as it does with any Marxist ‘ indoctrination ’ . |
| 17 | The naming of tunes in Gaelic dancing has as much to do with the whim of the moment as with anything portentous : ‘ Upstairs in a Tent ’ , or ‘ The Clock on the Dresser ’ , or ‘ The Walls of Limerick , owe more to whimsy in the kitchen on the night than to any attempt by the musician to give his tune immortality . |
| 18 | This is a salutary reminder of the powerful implications of teacher enthusiasm : no doubt at least part of the popularity of any text has as much to do with the way it is taught , as with characteristics embodied in the text itself . |
| 19 | Sometimes the resistance of an anorexic patient to regaining weight has as much to do with the mother 's overinvolvement in the patient 's life as her own unwillingness to change . |
| 20 | ‘ What I think , what I do , has as little to do with you as your activities have to do with me . ’ |
| 21 | What gets investment and what is shown has far more to do with the economic stranglehold of the Hollywood studios and the distribution/exhibition chains . |
| 22 | Subsidiarity is an old doctrine from German Catholic social philosophy and has far more to do with this than with constitutional theory . |
| 23 | As Golding was to remark in Stockholm in 1983 , on receiving the Nobel prize for literature , fiction has far more to do with the general mind of mankind than with the writer 's own quirks and obsessions : ‘ not just what the writer is thinking , but what a huge segment of the world is thinking . ’ |
| 24 | It has far less to do with strategy than with financial bargains struck in the market-place of Whitehall , and with efforts to contain galloping inflation in weapons procurement . |
| 25 | This move had three objects : to complete the education of our two younger children , Fiona at Fettes ( where my old Highfield playmate Inky Chenevix-Trench was now headmaster ) and Alastair at the Edinburgh Academy ; to have Moira 's mother who was living alone in an Edinburgh flat and becoming increasingly tottery to live with us ; and to own property once again and so benefit from its ever-increasing rise in value . |
| 26 | Sutcliffe makes a similar observation : " the real motivation for selecting one dialect or another has relatively little to do with the English class system as such and a great deal to do with ethnic and cultural identification . " |
| 27 | Even with subjects ' strategies constrained , it will be necessary to know how those interact with hemispheric specialisation as a function of different cognitive tasks and experimental variables if a complete account of visual hemifield asymmetries is to be achieved . |
| 28 | ‘ The company had a very cosy club atmosphere , which I found quite difficult to cope with in terms of what I saw as a lack of professionalism . ’ |
| 29 | This has very little to do with the quality and entertainment value of the films themselves . |
| 30 | Politics has very little to do with issues ; it is all to do with the personal vanities and ambitions of politicians . |