Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] concern [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Officers were no longer members , and increasingly education came to be seen not as a separate or specialized concern of local government but as a service to be considered alongside housing , transport , or rubbish collection .
2 So the English , American and French tendency for individualistic solutions to problems does not fit well with the Japanese or Swedish concern for group solutions .
3 There is n't a substantial body of films which reflect an ongoing or developing concern with race-related themes , but rather sporadic ‘ moments ’ in which particular motifs have featured prominently .
4 Teachers do not , as a breed , read or talk much about education and this presumably reflects the general feeling that ‘ something 's got to go ’ , and that concern with ideas and ideals seems to be one of the areas that is dispensable .
5 Furthermore , despite the proven efficacy of warfarin in primary stroke prevention , physicians remain reluctant to prescribe oral anticoagulants for their older patients with AF because of fears about haemorrhagic complications and understandable concerns about drug compliance in elderly outpatients .
6 In most countries , the governmental and political concern with the environment has come somewhat later than that of scientists or concerned lay people : the early development of the Green Party in the Federal Republic of Germany is something of an exception .
7 The unit of study is , in fact , unlikely to be a whole society since , as an anthropologist , Goody is fully aware that the ways in which a society represents its own past are always entangled in the present ideological and political concerns of particular groups and factions .
8 I regret the fact that I was not in the Chamber for the speech of the hon. Member for Pudsey ( Sir G. Shaw ) , but my hon. Friend the Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) , who was here , told me that he made a heavily veiled criticism of Government policy for its lack of recognition of progress as a key measure of the effectiveness of schools , and expressed concern about the morale of teachers who , he said , were not sufficiently recognised by society .
9 Secondly , it has expressed fears about changing a public sector monopoly into a private sector monopoly , and expressed concern about consumer protection .
10 Mr Morrison , organiser of the SNP 's Inverness branch , met two AW executives , Chris Mellor and Jim Adams , and expressed concern about the privatisation plans .
11 Student Kevin Bayliss said raising the money was ‘ extremely difficult ’ and expressed concern for this years ' first and second year .
12 The latter declaration called on all parties to the Paris accords to renew their commitment to the peace process , and expressed concern over " the refusal of one party " to co-operate with UNTAC .
13 In letters to both John Major and Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , he asked for the full cost to be disclosed and expressed concern over the waste of public money .
14 The first step is listening for the key issues and emotional concerns of community people .
15 In the run-up to the next World Congress in 1995 , these four areas should be expanded to include other relevant global and regional concerns like communication for peace , communication in ethno-religious conflicts , and the importance of culture in the process of social change .
16 Increased public and professional concern about the inadequacy of these led to revised , but still non-statutory , arrangements during the 1970s , culminating in DoE Circular 7/77 ( later by Circular 18/84 ) .
17 The author 's skill in tracing the influence of research studies , child abuse , inquiries , client group pressures and professional concerns on child care policy-making in the late 1980s , and the translation of that policy into legislative provision , is impressive .
18 The new legislation will prevent both government and private concerns from controlling any media against the interests of society .
19 Such a statement may be justified because the penalties imposed on industrial and agricultural concerns for discharging poisons into our rivers are still ridiculously low .
20 The failure to recognise the difference between public concern about standards and public concern about price is what makes the Bill deficient .
21 This clause provoked considerable anger amongst the gay community and some concern amongst local authorities .
22 Now let me read the words for the s benefit of those who do n't have them add new section eight and rem renumber eight urge his majesty 's government to give continuing and careful concern to the many situations in which lack of financial resources are still causing elderly people grave hardship .
23 Sparke 's works show that he had an intense curiosity about the economic , political , religious , social , and scientific concerns of the day .
24 It was increasingly apparent that the old laws , which were particularly concerned with the legal procedures for certification of patients , were obsolete in a period when the medical and social concern for mental disorder was of much greater importance .
25 A National Commission of Human Rights was established by Salinas in June 1990 in response to widespread internal and foreign concern at the routine use of torture by federal judicial police and at the escalating number of illegal arrests , murders , rapes and looting claimed to have been carried out by them in the course of a US-backed campaign against drug trafficking .
26 We need people who are not only economically literate , but politically and socially literate , well informed about and sensitive to crucial social and moral issues ; we must be developing a society whose members are aware and tolerant of others and manifest concern for their welfare .
27 The question of the birth rate was to be more crucial in the years after the Education Act , in the debates around the Royal Commission on Population , which reported in 1948–49 , but the existence of the commission itself from 1943 demonstrates public and official concern with such ideas in the first few years of the war .
28 I also learnt of untoward knock on effects and serious concerns about fragmentation and dis-enfranchisement .
29 Cubism , despite the strong intellectual bias and obvious concern with purely formal pictorial values , was never at any stage an abstract art .
30 Certainly , it may be admitted that as a consequence of challenges to humanism , the overt force of the national concept within English studies has been diminished ( but far from extinguished ) , and the space for a new and valuable concern with methodology has been opened up .
  Next page