Example sentences of "to be concerned " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Haselhurst clearly thinks it is ‘ absurd ’ to be concerned about prospective federalism in Europe . |
| 2 | ITV is understood to be concerned about what it sees as a weakening of its expensive agreement by individual clubs . |
| 3 | It was my turn to be concerned . |
| 4 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 5 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 6 | IWOULD urge Jayne Greenwell not to be concerned about her son 's religious instruction . |
| 7 | Pakistan 's military appears instead to be concerned with the country 's neighbour and traditional foe — India . |
| 8 | He expected Charity to scoff at such weakness , but surprisingly , she seemed only to be concerned with how that could be arranged . |
| 9 | There is no reason for anyone to be concerned about the ram 's ability to work because he ca n't get around his ewes . |
| 10 | While he was perceived to be concerned with the great strategic issues of war leadership , the representatives of the Party had to tackle the tedious , and often unpopular , workaday matters affecting daily life in the Heimat . |
| 11 | So to be concerned with fashion , to dress up and have fun with clothes , is to be stupid , even whilst every single day the fashion , advertising , and plastic surgery businesses ( not to mention slimming aids , diet books , fitness centres , cosmetics industry ) pump millions of pounds into all these things . |
| 12 | A spokesman said : ‘ We have lost nothing as far as our computer records are concerned and there is no need for policy holders to be concerned . |
| 13 | Shareholders were reported to be concerned about the company 's loss of credibility . |
| 14 | The focusing of consciousness often appears to be concerned with the attempted resolution of unfinished business . |
| 15 | The concept of parental rights in education could be said to be concerned with the ability of parents to extend the control they are able to exert within the family to their child 's formal education , thus protecting their ‘ interest ’ in the child . |
| 16 | The second section looks at the various legal provisions which can be said to be concerned with certain specific social and moral educational objectives : the law on sex and race discrimination , religious education and collective worship , sex education and the coverage of political issues in the classroom . |
| 17 | Also , it will show that we are not so parochial as to be concerned only with money and the minutiae of City affairs . |
| 18 | ‘ They are growing up missing half their heritage , and I really began to be concerned when they said fish and chips were their favourite food . |
| 19 | Clare 's contemporaries in the wetlands had reason to be concerned more for their own survival than that of moles and willow trees . |
| 20 | It worried him a bit , but it was n't here that he looked nervous and gave me reason to be concerned . |
| 21 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 22 | Refusing to be concerned with your own authority or status |
| 23 | Is it reactionary to be concerned about the issues of parental discipline and authority , and the related aspects of self-discipline and self-control , in these ‘ enlightened ’ times of progressive , permissive ( some would say laissez-faire ) child-rearing ? |
| 24 | The present churches are right to be concerned that many do not give themselves the opportunity to grow in any faith because apathy and false gods have moved into the vacuum that exists instead of a soul . |
| 25 | In Pahl 's well-known expression , local political research came to be concerned with ‘ Who gets the scarce resources and facilities ? |
| 26 | The whole sequence , therefore , appears to be concerned with rescripts of Marcus Aurelius on the subject of trusts for public building . |
| 27 | Together these viewpoints have distorted the development of English education at the expense of a balanced provision in a system which could be expected to be concerned with the broad world of personal development , preparation for employment and providing for economic and community need , both local and national . |
| 28 | They appear only to be concerned with the present and future quality of the labour market and the need to have a better and more highly trained workforce . |
| 29 | Present at this meeting was James Burton , the Scottish developer , who was to be concerned with erecting the early College buildings . |
| 30 | On the other hand , engineering seems to be concerned with the intellectual obverse of all this , that is with assembly or synthesis . |