Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] with [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were less bothered with the ideals of planned , balanced communities than with social control . |
| 2 | In one of those little quirks so popular with the writers of Hollywood biopics , it is recorded that " the rate at which the apparatus was capable of working was discovered accidentally , in consequence of the breaking of a spring " . |
| 3 | So here 's Emily , back again , because , teasingly , she seems after all to share so much with the women of Inventing Ourselves . |
| 4 | My associations with Wenceslas Square were not so much with the events of 1989 , though it was here on the 18th November that the crowds gathered to protest about the police violence of the night before . |
| 5 | It is none the less consistent with the purposes of the analysis . |
| 6 | General SVQs offer the chance to provide such a range of programmes in Scotland : a good case in point is the new general SVQ in arts and social sciences , which is entirely consistent with the proposals for SCOTCERT . |
| 7 | Such a suggestion is , of course , entirely consistent with the ideas about the function of grammar as outlined in this chapter . |
| 8 | The shareholders in non-profit institutions and publicly owned companies in both cases are more or less synonymous with the customers of the firm ; they provide no additional constraint apart from this , though in publicly owned companies the relevant government department will impose its own constraints ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 9 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , wife of the Ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople , was so impressed with the results of this folk practice by the Sultan 's Greek subjects that she had her children treated and introduced fashionable society to its advantages in 1721 ; as much for the protection of complexion as for the preservation of health . |
| 10 | I had experienced other bird observatories ; some were less well-endowed with the amenities of civilised living . |
| 11 | In this respect it is significant that Sartre , Althusser , Derrida and Lyotard , among others , were all either born in Algeria or personally involved with the events of the war . |
| 12 | Barristers , who opposed the ending of their monopoly , were less happy with the findings of the committee . |
| 13 | Whilst paying due attention to individual differences among incoming students as a potential source of subsequent competence , the investigator is especially concerned with the effects upon this of variation in course provision and course participation . |
| 14 | It is very difficult to see into the minds of the Government , especially when they are so concerned with the results of the Christchurch by-election and almost non-ratification of the Maastricht Treaty ! |
| 15 | The first five are basically concerned with the structures of literature and the various ways in which an author expresses himself . |
| 16 | Now we have here in the studio tonight four people who are vitally and personally concerned with the problems of living in a multiracial community . |
| 17 | That he was entirely happy with the results of that summit . |
| 18 | Paul noted little of the play , being only concerned with the entrances of Dinah . |
| 19 | It was a less lively face than her sister 's because it was more turned in , more contemplative , less concerned with the things of this world . |
| 20 | There was something stimulating about the warmed air so heavy with the smells of living . |
| 21 | If physics is to be taken as the acme of scientific knowledge , then it would make sense to try to emulate the methods that physics uses to gain its knowledge , and where else could one go for this by way of a shortcut but to philosophy , the discipline that has been endlessly preoccupied with the foundations of human knowledge . |
| 22 | Jay cursed that she was so pleased with the crumbs of comfort : coffee , a drink , a phonecall . |
| 23 | The manhood of England has been largely alienated from the organised Churches because we have been so absorbed by the interests of the individual soul as to neglect the woes of society , and so preoccupied with the delights of heaven as to overlook some of the most urgent duties of earth . |
| 24 | The public is less familiar with the consequences for prison management of the battles in which those former prisoners had to engage in order to establish their innocence . |
| 25 | None of your navel-lint , tit-licking pen-fuckers so infatuated with the twitchings of the ego they remain sublimely indifferent to the obscene fact that their words are worth less than the flies tormenting the eyelids of an African child . |
| 26 | He had not been altogether honest with the parents regarding the ‘ job situation ’ and considered it prudent to steal silently away to his room , rather than construct explanations for his early return from ‘ work ’ . |
| 27 | He came from a cricketing family — his father was a leading fast bowler in Antigua — and his great talent was evident very early on , so that he was already popular with the fans as a youngster . |
| 28 | Not unfamiliar with the habits of police forces both in East Africa and West London , she felt it was , on balance , unlikely . |
| 29 | The spectator in movement will see one mass protrude over another with the changes of image accelerated for people passing in cars — a kind of reality fixed in a rapidly changing life . |
| 30 | These and the other subject correlations in the appendix all appear to be broadly consistent with the expectations for this type of study . |