Example sentences of "have been concerned [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives have been concerned about what they have regarded as bias , especially left-wing bias , in the way issues have been presented to pupils by some teachers . |
| 2 | Ever since the RSPCA established a Working Party to look at the implications of fishing , we have been concerned about one of its conclusions , which is that fish should be given the benefit of the doubt with regard to their ability to experience pain . |
| 3 | They have been concerned about damaging them or losing their affection . |
| 4 | What I have been concerned about in this short section has been to compare some simple forms of growth equations deriving from quite different traditions . |
| 5 | Open-ended questions are useful in encouraging parents to talk , for example ‘ Would you like to tell me what you have been concerned about ? |
| 6 | While it is clear that both institutions have been concerned about their disappointing financial results , neither has been able correctly to identify the causes of their distress , let alone face the facts . |
| 7 | However , it is also evident that much greater co-operation is required between western European countries , which for a long time have been concerned about the environment , and the countries of eastern and central Europe . |
| 8 | Others have been concerned about the possible politically destabilising consequences of the overproduction of university and college graduates relative to the capacities of the labour market to absorb them in positions appropriate to their qualifications . |
| 9 | ‘ The reason people have been concerned about this case for so long is that it is about far bigger issues . |
| 10 | Does the Minister recognise that those of us who are friends of Kenya have been concerned for some time that that country has been slipping from the flagship position of good and open government in Africa ? |
| 11 | May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on what he has done at Maastricht in limiting the powers of the Commission , about which my constituents have been concerned for a long time ? |
| 12 | The history of forms in art has had some distinguished advocates , some of whom have been concerned with the transformation over time of one form to another ; others have been more attracted to problems of values , arguing either that styles in art change and decay , or that in a particular period there is an artistic will to produce work in a style of its own . |
| 13 | We have been concerned with how one leads into the other , or how the second strikes sparks off the first . |
| 14 | So far we have been concerned with trying to understand something of the general reaction people have to various forms of loss , concentrating on the reactions people will discover in themselves when they or someone close to them is dying or has died . |
| 15 | Thereafter , several research papers were published on the Lewisian complex , including Dearnley ( 1962 ) , Myers ( 1970 , 1971 ) , Coward ( 1972 , 1973 ) and Coward & and ; Graham ( 1973 ) ; and other papers have been concerned with the geology of the igneous complex of south Harris , and in particular , the anorthosite intrusion cropping out in the south east ( Davidson 1943 ; Dearnley 1963 ) . |
| 16 | We have been concerned with the authoritative imposition of duties . |
| 17 | More recently I have been concerned with a survey of visitors to the British Museum , of whom there are between two and three million a year . |
| 18 | So far we have been concerned with odours which affect the public at large , but consideration must also be given to the protection afforded by the law , to employees and other workers who may experience odours in their places of work , whether in a factory , office , shop , or educational establishment , etc . |
| 19 | None of the studies described above have been concerned with patients suffering from serious psychiatric illness or being at immediate risk of suicide . |
| 20 | He had been a motor-racing driver and team manager , and his best films have been concerned with cars , bikes and heists , rather than boy meets girl . |
| 21 | But this does not mean , apparently , the active negotiation of meaning , the realization of speech acts , discourse enactment , social interaction , or indeed any aspect of language use which those who have been concerned with communicative approaches to language teaching have found it necessary to invoke . |
| 22 | Whereas the other tests so far reviewed have been concerned with specific aspects of linguistic ability , the RDLS is much more concerned with the way in which the child 's increasing mastery of language is associated with conceptual development and more sophisticated problem-solving skills . |
| 23 | Welfare economists in particular have been concerned with actual or predicted changes in the size and nature of the ratio . |
| 24 | So far in this chapter we have been concerned with the determinants and consequences of collective bargaining structures as they appertain on an inter-country basis at national level . |
| 25 | The families and the professionals have been concerned with the care of children and with negotiating the criteria that govern state intervention in that care . |
| 26 | So far we have been concerned with the dominant academic version of Marxist instrumentalism . |
| 27 | But the subjects I have been concerned with recently have been more directly related to my own experience of life : the situation in Northern Ireland ; the Gulf War ; my thoughts have come closer to home . |
| 28 | So far we have been concerned with the expected actions of teachers in the classroom . |
| 29 | Durkheim and his followers have been concerned with consensus theory 's one basic and overriding preoccupation — how society can continue as an integrated whole and not collapse into a mass of warring individuals . |
| 30 | So far we have been concerned with the nature and effect of intellectual transactions in the classroom . |