Example sentences of "been [adj] concern " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , and closely related , have been moral concerns about family breakdown and unmarried motherhood . |
| 2 | Now there has been real concern voiced about the delay in getting the unit off the ground . |
| 3 | There has been widespread concern in the last 20 years that children from Afro-Caribbean and Asian communities are underachieving in British schools and , therefore , are at a disadvantage in entering further and higher education , acquiring professional and technical qualifications and in finding employment . |
| 4 | The infamous Rechem plant is located near Pontypool in Wales and there has been widespread concern at its operation . |
| 5 | There has been considerable concern over the sooty specks ( particulates ) from diesel exhausts as a possible cause of cancer . |
| 6 | Since 1977 , for reasons suggested in the last chapter , there has been considerable concern among both politicians and the public with the utility of education to society . |
| 7 | There has been considerable concern about the use of β-blocking drugs in diabetic patients in connection with hypoglycaemia and the peripheral circulation . |
| 8 | Britain also , of course , now has sizeable ethnic minorities and there has been considerable concern about their educational achievement , resulting in the setting up of a government committee of inquiry . |
| 9 | There has been growing concern among Polynesians about radioactive pollution of the area . |
| 10 | Over the past year or so , there has been growing concern about the number of cheques being stolen in the post . |
| 11 | Lothian Regional Council has recognised that , in recent years , there has been growing concern about the problem of violence to employees who work in direct contact with the public . |
| 12 | In recent years there has been growing concern about the effects of alcohol and discussion of the most effective forms of treatment response for excessive alcohol use . |
| 13 | There has been growing concern about patients who are compulsorily detained in hospital as a result of being found unfit to plead or legally insane . |
| 14 | During the last few years there has been growing concern over the effects of sharp regional variations in house prices on the mobility of labour . |
| 15 | There has been increasing concern about local authority ‘ self-donated ’ planning permissions . |
| 16 | There has been increasing concern expressed in recent years over the amount of unused , vacant , derelict or dormant urban land ( a variety of terms is used , typically with little precision ) . |
| 17 | Now in America , through the nineteen seventies and eighties there 's been increasing concern , an increasing concern that the states were becoming more and more dependent on the federal government and these figures suggest that there was good reasons , this was one of Ronald Reagan 's campaign themes , this was a g a growing concern , he said the federal system has been shattered , it 's , it 's changed its character , the states are now dependent on the federal government and this is dreadful and we must , we must change this . |
| 18 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 19 | There has been recent concern with regard to the precipitation and aggravation of diabetes mellitus by thiazide diuretics ( Murphy et al , 1982 ) , and β-adrenoreceptor blocking agents and others used in the treatment of hypertension . |
| 20 | Widespread complaints of poor management and excessive service charges led to the establishment … [ of ] the " Nugee Committee " … at the same time there has been ever-increasing concern with the difficulties which confront leaseholders in selling leases whose outstanding periods have decreased significantly since their grant . |