Example sentences of "concerned at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAMRA is also concerned at the way in which many keg beers are brewed and the ingredients used . |
| 2 | ‘ But they will have no experience of running pubs and I know from talking to the local bench that licensing magistrates are concerned at the standard of new licensees . ’ |
| 3 | Party leaders are concerned at the growing gap between Communists active in parliament in Warsaw , and those in the provinces who have been slow to catch on to the change . |
| 4 | Yesterday the Governor of Hong Kong , Sir David Wilson , said he was ‘ concerned at the action the Chinese have taken ’ , but argued that the decision to allow Mr Yang to travel to the West had not breached the 1982 agreement . |
| 5 | He was not concerned at the early pace set by Bully Boy , but he did become worried at the water jump , where he changed his hands and asked his mount to quicken with hands and heels , as he had dropped his whip . |
| 6 | The world champion may not be worried about the £500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month 's Stuttgart Open , but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament , which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings , plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment . |
| 7 | Concerned at the rapid expansion of the hunt , and the declining stocks of small cetaceans around the coastline , the Iwate Prefecture in January 1989 instituted a licensing system , so that for the first time ever , the hunt could be regulated . |
| 8 | In May , South Africa , concerned at the proliferation of the Japanese drift-net fleet around the edges of its 200-mile EEZ , banned the use and possession of drift-nets in its EEZ . |
| 9 | The Labour Party was concerned at the threat which fascism posed to its traditional areas of support but the results of its 1934 circular emphasized the limited nature of British fascism . |
| 10 | Llanelli are concerned at the prospect of playing the most important game of their season without four players involved in the Wales Under-21 match against Scotland , and three others who are injured . |
| 11 | Although the country may have lost its strategic significance with the collapse of the Soviet Union , Washington is nevertheless concerned at the possibility of an unstable radical Islamic state growing up on the borders of the former Soviet Central Asia . |
| 12 | They were concerned at the failure of the surveyor to pick up the problem , and at the cost and difficulty of seeking redress . |
| 13 | But more recently , as companies have become more and more concerned at the escalating costs of purchasing and maintaining increasingly advanced technological capabilities , fundamental questions are being asked as to how the use of IT gives a company strategic advantage — if it does [ Earl ( 1988 ) ; Bruce ( 1988 ) ] . |
| 14 | Although the plans have been welcomed by the CBI and the British Road Federation they are likely to raise a storm of protest from residents and local authorities directly affected and from conservation groups already concerned at the likely impact of the Channel Tunnel and its rail links with London . |
| 15 | This will certainly be the case if the people concerned at the local level take this view , failing to grasp the strategic role that they have always claimed but often failed to deliver convincingly because of time spent on day-to-day operational matters . |
| 16 | The American government has made the data available at negligible cost to users around the world and , in recent years , has become concerned at the cost . |
| 17 | Ken Revell , chief technologist at BL Technology , says he is concerned at the time the government study has taken . |
| 18 | The researchers are particularly concerned at the impact on the food industry which currently exports a high proportion of its output to South East England and can not possibly compete with the substantially improved delivery times open to French competitors once the Tunnel is opened . |
| 19 | The traditionalists in the Labour Party , already concerned at the loss of some ‘ respectable ’ working-class voters over the Tory council-house purchase policy , were alarmed that even more of them would desert Labour over such close associations with homosexuality . |
| 20 | The 100 Group of finance directors is concerned at the Accounting Standards Board 's proposals for an Operating and Financial Review . |
| 21 | Now , with the physical signs so very apparent , Celia was even more concerned at the prospect of confronting her . |
| 22 | Although there was opposition to the Fiat-Alfa deal from some trade unionists who were concerned at the possible job losses caused by rationalisation after a merger , the Italian government was subjected to considerable political pressure of a nationalistic nature to support the Fiat bid — pressure similar to that which forced the British government to cancel the talks between Ford and Austin Rover — and eventually rejected the Ford overtures in favour of an ‘ all Italian solution ’ . |
| 23 | I AM deeply concerned at the prospect of sick people being made to pay for the Government 's mismanagement of the economy . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ I am concerned at the whole idea of trying to whip up custom with a free deal which automatically converts into a pay-as-you-go service charged on your phone bill — unless you contract out . |
| 25 | Or were they simply concerned at the number of rules that were being broken by the programme 's makers ? |
| 26 | But , as in the past , the students were concerned at the prospect of foreign domination through trade and financial deals , the modern-day manifestation of imperialism . |
| 27 | ‘ But he should be playing a bit forward — maybe he 's too concerned at the moment with his defensive duties . |
| 28 | AI continues to be concerned at the long-term detention in Hong Kong of thousands of Vietnamese asylum-seekers . |
| 29 | The ARFU has been concerned at the falling standard of sevens , particularly with the World Cup Sevens to be played in April next year at Murrayfield . |
| 30 | Someone concerned at the suffering might well think it more appropriate to work for reformation rather than abolition . |