Example sentences of "concerned with [pron] [is] " in BNC.

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1 One further point is worth remembering ; the root definition is concerned with what is being achieved , not how it is done , and any inclusion of a ‘ how ’ statement should be shown as a constraint , eg improving productivity by the use of incentive bonus schemes .
2 Whilst a profusion of information has been revealed , archaeology has , by its very nature , been largely concerned with what is found physically , which tends to emphasize the mundane , domestic level of existence .
3 These bodies have various functions ; none is exclusively concerned with what is commonly regarded as being their primary function , i.e. the making of laws .
4 They are concerned with what is perceived to be ‘ right ’ for individual old people and their supporters and what degree of professional responsibility and organisational accountability the workers have for such people .
5 They 're pursuing a different tack — they are less concerned with what is the economic connection than what ought to be " .
6 The simplest definition of the curriculum is ‘ what is taught ’ ( Taylor and Richards 1985 , p. 2 ) and the study of the curriculum is concerned with what is taught ( description ) and what ought to be taught ( prescription ) .
7 But we are now not concerned with what is normally likely to happen , but with what might happen .
8 An individual who can control and coordinate the other team members , who recognises their talents but is not threatened by them , and who is concerned with what is feasible rather than what is exciting or imaginative .
9 Marketing is the one function of management which has to be more concerned with what is going on outside the organization than with what is happening internally .
10 In an early comment upon denudation chronology Day Kimball ( 1948 ) proposed that historical geology could be divided into two parts : stratigraphy , which deals with what is there and denudation chronology , which is concerned with what is n't !
11 It is concerned with what is possible in the context of the strengths and weaknesses of the company and the threats and opportunities it perceives in the world outside the company , the environment in which it operates .
12 They are industrial sections concerned with what is happening in a particular industry , or a group of industries .
13 Nevertheless ecology has started with that which is obvious to the eye and is increasingly concerned with what is not .
14 The empirical approach is concerned with what is and what can be seen and touched , proceeding on the basis of testing and retesting and largely rejecting dogma and abstract or coherent grand designs for change .
15 Handmaids are n't allowed to answer back , so most of the book is concerned with what 's going on in Offred 's head .
16 If a bird has food , it 's much more concerned with what 's going on around it , because it 's afraid that another predator might steal it .
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