Example sentences of "[be] concerned with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , indeed , we like to think of geography which is a subject which is concerned with environmental problems in their widest sense , with the problems of society , how people live and work , have their leisure and recreation and we 're concerned with our own country , we 're concerned with distant parts of the world .
2 We are concerned with two forms of covenant : restrictive covenants , which may affect the use to which freeholders may put their land ; and covenants contained in a lease , which restrict the position of tenants .
3 Many complementary therapies exist which are concerned with holistic healing .
4 The external factors though are concerned with real events .
5 Conversely , structural geologists are concerned with geophysical surveys .
6 It has been the predominant mode of care for people with long term care needs , whether their needs are concerned with mental illness , learning difficulty , mental handicap , age related needs or physical handicap .
7 Here we are concerned with essential characteristics of the goods so that , for example , in a hire purchase case Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 1 WLR 936 , a car was defined as being a vehicle capable of moving under its own power .
8 Other issues that develop are concerned with caring people who wish to help relatives and friends express their grief .
9 Here we are concerned with bimolecular associations where adverse entropy changes denote loss of translational ( position ) and rotational ( orientation ) motions that occur when two entities come together to form one complex .
10 In this context , we are concerned with distinguishing identity from attributes which is notoriously difficult .
11 Both exhibitions are concerned with that representation of the figure which is meant to evoke an awareness in the viewer of subtlety and process , of the deceit of the eye in which , Pygmalion-like , we knowingly participate .
12 It is almost inherent in the nature of the passions and the acts we are concerned with that feeling overcomes or ceases directly to control and regulate action .
13 Not all the losses resulting from a delayed product launch are concerned with that product .
14 Not all the losses resulting from a delayed product launch are concerned with that product .
15 Prince Charles was installed as President at a degree congregation in Edinburgh in 1976 , and Sir Michael took the opportunity to underline to him that whatever ‘ the tribulations of our staff , who deal with the paper work of over 80,000 students and over 1000 courses , the Council itself and its committees and subject boards are concerned with one thing only , and that is quality ’ .
16 You do have to think about both aspects , and many people who are concerned with one area tend to think less about the other area .
17 Most of Marx 's comments on the division of labour are concerned with industrial production , but Braverman sets out to show that the capitalist division of labour between ‘ conception ’ and ‘ execution ’ is to be found equally in routine clerical work and in fact within any developed capitalist enterprise .
18 First , a great many of the cases in this area of the law are concerned with industrial strife of one kind or another and where this is so the common law has been excluded or modified since 1906 by statutory immunities granted to persons acting in a ‘ trade dispute . ’
19 We have done very little fo for carers who are concerned with aged parents .
20 Profile is the natural elevation for figures in narrative art , since they are concerned with each other and their activity , not with the spectator ; so head and legs are in profile ; but the chest is shown frontal , because that is its fullest extension and the attachment of both arms can be made clear .
21 Many of the classes in the Order are concerned with various types of industry , not only ‘ light ’ , which can generally be carried out in a residential area without detriment to its amenities , and general industry , which can change to light but not vice versa , but also with a number of special categories , such as those subject to the Alkali Inspectorate .
22 The first three chapters are concerned with various aspects of children 's ability to understand language .
23 Some rituals — the majority , indeed — are concerned with bodily functions .
24 My own research in Mexico suggests that female managers tend to be found in those depanments that are concerned with interpersonal relations within the plant ( personnel , public relations , training ) and that women who start off in these areas and succeed are occasionally promoted to higher levels of management .
25 This chapter is in a sense a crucial point in the course : although the segmental material of the preceding chapters is important as a foundation , the relationship between strong and weak syllables and the overall prosodic characteristics of words and sentences are essential to intelligibility , and most of the remaining chapters of the course are concerned with such matters .
26 Writers are concerned with such issues as : Does culture belong to the organisation or to the individuals within it ?
27 There are a number of general theories that are concerned with such issues and we shall briefly investigate these before moving on to an examination of power within organisations .
28 As with the LDCs , the committees are concerned with such issues as local establishments , rosters , overtime and holiday arrangements .
29 Some ensure that manufacturing technology remains up to date , while others are concerned with new products .
30 These programmes are concerned with new course development and improving access to continuing vocational training ( see article below and on opposite page ) .
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