Example sentences of "[adj] mainly with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To date , there have been three boards : the short-lived Northern Pennines Rural Development Board ( 1969–71 ) , concerned mainly with agriculture ; the more recent Development Board for Rural Wales , established in 1976 ; and the longer established Highlands and Islands Development Board , initiated in 1965 . |
| 2 | This report was concerned mainly with hunting and hare coursing . |
| 3 | Assessment in particular subject areas , including mathematics , has traditionally been concerned mainly with knowledge and techniques . |
| 4 | Such prevention includes : educational approaches concerned mainly with child sexual abuse ; programmes targeted at adults and the community which focus on developing appropriate child care and thus lessening the possibility of neglect , emotional abuse , and potential loss of parental control resulting in over-chastisement ; services using volunteers and parent aides rather than professionally trained staff ; antenatal and postnatal services ; and finally other programmes aimed at children older than infants . |
| 5 | These institutions were concerned mainly with gymnastics and confined largely to women until after the Second World War . |
| 6 | Talks with government leaders in each of the countries were concerned mainly with trade issues , the future of Antarctica , relations with China in the wake of the suppression of the pro-democracy movement , arms control , the crisis in the Middle East , environmental issues and a range of bilateral issues . |
| 7 | So far in our discussion of adult language processing we have been concerned mainly with language perception and comprehension . |
| 8 | The DIP switches are concerned mainly with monitor type — you set a block of three of the six switches to indicate the maximum resolution your monitor is capable of — and whether or not you will want to use the 32k colour modes ( and you will , believe me ! ) |
| 9 | On the other hand , the basolateral Na + /H + exchanger might be concerned mainly with cell homeostasis , contributing to regulation of pH i and , possibly also , cell volume and cell proliferation ( see below ) . |