Example sentences of "more [adj] with [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Although less of a problem with twentieth- or late nineteenth-century figures , this becomes more serious with individuals from an earlier age , for three reasons .
2 Sherif ( 1977 ) , Unger ( 1983 ) and Henley ( 1985 ) suggest that feminist psychology is interdisciplinary by nature , and should be much more involved with disciplines like sociology and history .
3 A career in congress had now become more meaningful with openings for committee or sub-committee chairmanships widespread .
4 ‘ There 'd be no more gallivanting with nutcases like Mrs Wright , ’ said his Dad and went out .
5 On the other hand , eastern and central areas should start dry , but will become gradually more cloudy with outbreaks of rain in most places by the evening .
6 They were obviously much more concerned with problems of the world outside Europe than any previous rulers had been .
7 Life stories have not been previously used in this way partly because sociologists have been more concerned with problems of deprivation , and oral historians with recapturing the experience of childhood and early adulthood in previous periods .
8 Political philosophy is more concerned with objects as properties than the properties of objects , while phenomenology , as that branch or philosophy which claims more direct concern with everyday objects , considers these mainly as media for addressing the role of agency and the nature of subjectivity ( though see McCarthy 1984 for the contribution of Mead ) .
9 Both families had ties with greater men , who were more concerned with affairs of State , and they were affected by political turmoil , particularly the Stonors , who suffered forfeiture in 1483 for rebelling against Richard III , but both had come through the earlier phase of the dynastic struggle with relatively minor scars .
10 Hence bureaucracies are more concerned with levels of activities ( e.g. hospital beds per thousand population , teacher-pupil ratios , expenditure on school books , expenditure on welfare provision , numbers of missiles and infantry divisions , the size of police forces or standards of accommodation in prisons ) , than with output , or rather outcomes , such as health standards , educational standards , defence capability or public safety .
11 At certain ages individuals have a priority for educational facilities for children : later they will be more concerned with facilities for pensioners .
12 Is the Secretary of State more concerned with patients on waiting lists or with headlines on waiting lists ?
13 People were more preoccupied with rumours about an imminent sharp reduction in food rations than by the speech of the Führer , noted the SD .
14 ‘ Perhaps it 's a bit more difficult with children of your own .
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