Example sentences of "more [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As middle age threatens , my adoration for the horse is once more tinged with apprehension .
2 As the heroine triumphs in one , something yet more filled with trouble should await her .
3 For some time now I have gradually become more and more disillusioned with teaching .
4 No hi hi his his story is more connected with farming .
5 The small operation at " Hartriggs " ( see " Haggrieg 's Mine at Hawk Rigg " page 91 in the Field Guide ) , was providing a " rich liver coloured ore " ( cuprite ? ) , whilst at Muckle Gill , above the top waterfall in Tilberthwaite Gill , the veins , even then , " as the shafts get deeper , become less rich … getting more coarse and more mineralised with sulphur . "
6 The internal mechanisms regulating relations between different enterprises and industries during the long post-war boom had less to do with price competition between enterprises and , in countries like the UK , more to do with state policies .
7 For some , entering the market as consumers had more to do with necessity than with a growth in personal income .
8 To their credit , The Cherrys are more to do with cartoon frenzies than the slick professionalism which seemingly warrants a Spin front cover at the drop of a bobble hat , but it 's as hollow a victory as Linford Christie 's Olympic Gold in the absence of Carl Lewis .
9 In the drawings the lamb appears to have bound feet , and the purport of the piece is surely more to do with sacrifice than deliverance .
10 That had more to do with management and the presentation of the play to those who were backing it — so instead of playing Beefy , who is described as ‘ the world 's most beatific observer ’ I played the opposite number who was ‘ the world 's last shy elegant young man ’ .
11 This was more to do with window dressing and the government 's need to be seen to be doing something , rather than a serious attempt to tackle the problems .
12 This had more to do with share price performance than with currency changes .
13 The report of that research — Accident risk and behavioural patterns of younger drivers , published last year — showed that more than a third of the men aged 17 to 25 were assessed as ‘ unsafe ’ drivers , and suggested that this had more to do with lifestyle than with driving skills .
14 District Nurses and Health Visitors are able to provide services which are more to do with health and nursing care .
15 Cosmas 's death had more to do with flesh and blood than curses , witches or ghosts . ’
16 Mr Lang 's caution about the timing of the bill is thought to be more to do with protocol rather than an indication that the whole issue might be delayed .
17 Usually though , our crises are more to do with logistics .
18 Can you recall a graffito more charged with knowledge ? ’
19 In an attempt to get data from this natural laboratory , particle physics has become ever more entwined with cosmology .
20 Personal ambition might be served by a bureaucracy , but is perhaps more associated with power culture and person culture .
21 Thus the claim is that social movements like McCarthyism in the USA during the 1950s , or the National Front in France during the 1980s , are more associated with violence and intolerance than more routine democratic politics .
22 The path became more overgrown with honeysuckle , convolvulus , montbretia and brambles .
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