Example sentences of "concern [is] with " in BNC.

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1 My concern is with the nature of his reputation , and the striking extent to which both his admirers and his detractors are unable to agree on what kind of writer Derrida is , or even what he is actually saying .
2 Their main concern is with buy-outs of complete listed companies — such as Magnet , Virgin and International Leisure .
3 This bias is reflected in practice , where medicine 's primary concern is with the biophysical consequences of diagnosis and treatment , not its social causes and consequences ( Freidson , 1970 ) .
4 Given that our primary concern is with perceptual learning it might be argued that this last process is what should command attention and that the processes involved in latent inhibition ( apart perhaps from the attentional change it involves ) are of marginal importance only .
5 Our concern is with that huge category of stock which is not issuing well and which fills our valuable storage space : the nineteenth-century biographies ; the classics of politics and philosophy ; the long journal runs ; the multi-volume histories ; the ‘ complete ’ works ; the novels , plays and studies of and by yesterday 's men and women ; the giant topographical histories — the accumulated cultural and historical heritage that lies heavily on the stacks and on the reference shelves .
6 At national level , the major concern is with preventing accidents on the roads .
7 In this chapter , the primary concern is with changes occurring over time spans from minutes to centuries and from spatial wavelengths from about 1 m to about 100 km .
8 If our concern is with the habitability of residential areas , it is clear that the prevention of accidents and the limitation of their severity must be the principal goal .
9 Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree .
10 His concern is with the impact of technical change on two of the four factors we previously identified as potential sources of job satisfaction , namely social relations at work and the exercise of skill and knowledge .
11 I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes .
12 In trying to limit the domain of the sociology of knowledge , to keep it from intruding into philosophy and from making unjustifiable empirical claims , Hinshaw 's review suggests that its real concern is with pragmatics , ‘ the relationships of signs to their users ’ ( Hinshaw 1973 : 237 ) .
13 It quickly becomes evident that Hoving has more on his agenda than just reportage , and like Nancy Reagan in My Turn , his primary concern is with settling old scores .
14 In this chapter , however , our concern is with managements ' authority functions and their strategies in relation to their workforce .
15 The main concern is with organised labour and central government .
16 Its overriding concern is with efficient crime control .
17 Its abiding concern is with the interconnectedness of things , with all the links in the social chains that bind individuals together as members of a community .
18 As social anthropologists our major concern is with those ideas and ways of behaving which a given community takes for granted as the ‘ natural ’ order of things .
19 His concern is with the culture which the past generations had created to be handed down .
20 Our main concern is with those policies and issues we regard as being the most important in determining the achievement of national goals through partnership with the multinationals .
21 A third concern is with the unintended consequences of focusing such a project upon a particular age-range or sector .
22 This analysis of cognitive processes will proceed by reference to differences between skilled and unskilled readers , not because our main concern is with disability , but because individual differences serve to illustrate the nature of ability .
23 PR 's sole concern is with the relationship between the number of votes each party has received and the number of seats it has been awarded .
24 In this book our main , although by no means exclusive , concern is with the former .
25 Where the question of ideology is paramount , the concern is with the manner in which control over cultural forms is used to suppress contradictions or conflicts ( Larrain 1982 : 15 ) .
26 At the national level the concern is with the education system as a whole rather than with individual schools .
27 Hence the concern is with prejudice to particular proceedings and a substantial risk of serious prejudice is needed .
28 The fiscals are lawyers whose first concern is with the proper and fair application of the law .
29 While many clubs , organisations and other groupings have constitutions , our concern is with the constitutions of nation-states .
30 Trees and natural forms are here almost completely eliminated , and the concern is with the relationships between the cubic , block-like buildings and the reconciliation of their obvious solidity with the picture plane .
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