Example sentences of "concerned by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some senior members of Congress in both parties remain concerned by recent developments in US budget politics . |
| 2 | Avon and Somerset Police , concerned by the growing number of officers taking sick leave due to back trouble , discovered in the survey that 15 per cent of the ricked backs were caused or aggravated by sitting in police vans and personnel carriers . |
| 3 | Prominent figures in the British art world are naturally concerned by the possibility that they could be witnessing the beginning of the end of the Saatchi Collection . |
| 4 | She is also concerned by West German manouvres to revive the debate over the future of short-range nuclear weapons and to enlist US support to kill plans to modernise the Lance missiles deployed in the Federal Republic . |
| 5 | Remarkably , the voice of those primarily concerned by the issue , namely Arab women , has been totally missing . |
| 6 | The OECD says it is concerned by the increase in inflation among members , but the average of 4.5 per cent is still well below the forecast for the UK . |
| 7 | We can illustrate this point by drawing on the novels of Charlotte Yonge ( 1823–1901 ) who was deeply religious and much concerned by human suffering . |
| 8 | The Iranians , concerned by what Reagan seemed to have done with their wish-list of missiles , wanted to be convinced that they had ‘ something in hand ’ . |
| 9 | In 1983 , the Pope , concerned by the spread of Liberation Theology , visited Central America , ostensibly in order to promote church unity . |
| 10 | Around Britain , people were equally concerned by the map which accompanied ‘ The Way Forward ’ . |
| 11 | Fusil was not concerned by the lack of foreign interest in the first race — more worrying was the fact that no French team finished in the top three . |
| 12 | Her Majesty 's Inspectors in their report on the teaching of English published in 1987 were particularly concerned by the low standard of teaching for A level English : ‘ Teachers spend too much time scrutinizing past papers and then drilling students in what are taken to be the ‘ correct ’ answers . |
| 13 | I was not angry or upset so much as concerned by the lads going so far in the wrong direction . |
| 14 | Before British accession to the European Community in 1973 , the original six Member States had become concerned by the way in which the Community 's Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP ) was accelerating depopulation in mountain areas . |
| 15 | In northern Europe , however , factors such as population growth , urbanisation and industrialisation during the latter half of the nineteenth century produced a gradual change of heart , although the initial move towards the idea of protecting natural wilderness was encouraged primarily by European sportsmen who became concerned by the diminishing herds of game animals in the colonies ( MacKenzie , 1989 ) . |
| 16 | 1991 , 27 , 1114 ) should not be unduly concerned by the prospect that chemists may abandon their traditional research in order to work on buckminsterfullerene . |
| 17 | Concerned by what he had seen , but not aware that disaster was imminent , he telephoned the colliery Manager at his home ; the Manager instructed that a fence be erected around the subsidence . |
| 18 | Whilst he was chasing girls ( or were the girls chasing him ? ) and always looking for an easy pound or two , I was deeply concerned by the deteriorating political situation . |
| 19 | A different form of control liability will , however , apply if the dominant undertaking — whether or not a shareholder — has formalised its relationship with the public company concerned by a control contract which provides for it to manage the company and in which it offers the minority shareholders a buy-out or , at the shareholders ' option , to pay them an annual protected dividend . |
| 20 | Around 25 per cent of those gathered will be distracted anyway ; they may be upset by their home situation ; concerned by some event which occurred on their way in ; confused by the absence of someone they were expecting to see . |
| 21 | They were delivered to the woman concerned by Edouard de Chavigny 's English manservant , without any accompanying message . |
| 22 | Deeply concerned by this news , we dispatched letters to the agony aunts of Fleet Street to seek advice . |
| 23 | Mr Armitage is not concerned by the fall from a record 7,000- plus students a year in the mid-1980s to around 4,000 today . |
| 24 | Party leaders were concerned by the ‘ two for the price of one ’ sales pitch Hillary was using as she stumped around the country , often leading her husband into the fray rather than following . |
| 25 | She was particularly concerned by the large increase in petrol tax , which added 15p to a gallon of four star . |
| 26 | The authorities were becoming increasingly concerned by the unhealthy state of student activism . |
| 27 | Moss is concerned by what he heard at the COSE announcement that the companies aim to achieve systems management harmony at a lower level , perhaps at an applications level , than the single high-level link Tivoli is offering . |
| 28 | They are usually more concerned by the loss of mushroom habitat . |
| 29 | Moss is concerned by what he heard at the COSE announcement that they aim to achieve systems management harmony at a lower level , perhaps at an applications level , than the single high-level link Tivoli is offering . |
| 30 | The City is apparently concerned by reports that Christmas trade has not been good , and by the longer term implications of the group 's reverse premium practices . |