Example sentences of "concern was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her one concern was to reach the upper chamber without being seen . |
| 2 | The irony is that the Act came before Parliament at the instance of the Christian Socialists , whose concern was to promote the industrial co-operative form of organisation ; and the further irony that the legislation was put through Parliament under the Tory administration formed by Lord Derby in that year . |
| 3 | Writing later , in 1937 , J. B. Priestley 's main concern was to stress the Englishness of Chaplin ( though he did concede that the Chaplin symbol was half-French in inspiration ) and he talked of him as being ‘ the greatest humourist since Dickens ’ and of belonging above all to London 's East End and to ‘ the swarms of bright-eyed urchins who are thumbing their noses at the nearest policemen ’ . |
| 4 | The founders ' concern was to reverse the popular view of computers as a threat rather than a benefit to the peoples of the world . |
| 5 | His perennial concern was to reconcile the general principle of democracy with the idea of government and social leadership being safely in the hands of an elite of the best and most enlightened members of society . |
| 6 | The economic growth of the pre-war years was generating an increase in the strength of the middle classes whose concern was to dismantle the restrictions of the old regime . |
| 7 | Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig 's other concern was to dislodge the Germans from their dominating positions on the ridge of high ground running from Westroosbeke to Broodseinde before winter set in . |
| 8 | But they seemed to work for researchers whose single-minded concern was to delineate the biochemistry , neurophysiology and cell biology of learning and memory . |
| 9 | In contrast to the earlier stages of the debate , the concern was to make the common curriculum more than the ‘ basics ’ ( something not altogether borne out in their subsequent pronouncements ) . |
| 10 | In a letter confirming their arrangement which Scott sent on the same day , his main concern was to ensure the approval of Stanley and the India Council . |
| 11 | Further , it is only for the kingdom of the Burgundians that there is evidence for anything like an all-embracing comital structure , and while most , if not all , Merovingian civitates must have had their comites , or in the north , their graphiones , in all probability local administration could vary according to regional tradition and to the will of an individual king , whose main concern was to ensure the loyalty of and to realize the revenues from his civitates . |
| 12 | He has met that part of the commitment , but our main concern was to have the legislation drafted in such a way as to ensure that a funding council would be set up . |
| 13 | His concern was to understand the dispensation of God 's Spirit to mankind . |