Example sentences of "[verb] been concerned [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A lot of our discussion so far has been concerned with this kind of " saying " , but I have purposely avoided introducing any of the technical jargon of semiotics ( the theory of signs ) and this is now leading me into difficulty because the ordinary use of words in social anthropological discourse is crudely imprecise . |
| 2 | I think it 's very interesting since half the century has been concerned with this question of objects . |
| 3 | A lot of my work has been concerned with this area and as my experience has grown I have learnt to wait until the people involved tell me they want to talk . |
| 4 | ‘ The reason people have been concerned about this case for so long is that it is about far bigger issues . |
| 5 | In that context I have had to look at the definition of a specific issue order which is contained in section 8(1) of the Act and I know , from talking to those who have been concerned with this Act and are familiar with it , that they have no doubt at all as to what that definition means . |
| 6 | Political sociologists , in so far as they are not engaged in mainly descriptive and historical studies , now devote much of their effort either to analysing methodological problems of the kind which I outlined in the Introduction , or to reappraising and reinterpreting those nineteenth-century theories in which the ideas with which I have been concerned throughout this book — democracy , class , capitalism , socialism , the nation — were originally formulated and diffused . |