Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [be] concerned [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Speaking from his holiday home in Kennebunkport , President George Bush sought to distance himself from the controversy , stating that it was not " a matter for the president to be concerned about , especially on the first day of his vacation " .
2 Yes Chairman i it relates to the the body of the policies in the structure plan and if Aida 's plan generally conforms then we must er issue a statement of general conformity er however if there is a , a problem that we 've had for example about the wording of the reference to the erm East Worthing access road , then although that it 's quite proper for this committee to be concerned about that wording and ultimately possibly even to object to the plan on the basis of the wording , it does n't affect the extent to which the plan conforms or does n't conform with the structure plan overall .
3 Melissa was about to retort that Dora had every right to be concerned about her friend , but reminded herself that it was no business of hers and that in any case , Dora was quite capable of fighting her own battles .
4 Politics was still fun , and there was no need to be concerned with blame , yet .
5 ‘ However , we 've beaten both Lyngby and Leeds home and away and see no need to be concerned about Marseille .
6 For the vast majority of individuals this is still the case and they have no need to be concerned about the changes described below .
7 Hilton , 20 , of South Close , Halstead , pleaded guilty at Chelmsford Crown Court to being concerned in the supply of amphetamine to others .
8 Massey 's schemata is useful here , especially if we follow her instruction to be concerned with the real relationships among our objects of study rather than formal legal relations .
9 But I do not take the regress argument to be concerned with temporal relations between acts of justification .
10 The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time .
11 Iron is the most important mineral to be concerned about in an elderly person 's diet .
12 The recession will limit his capacity to spend more on health and education and fatally undermine his claim to be concerned about these issues .
13 How dare the hon. Gentleman and the Labour party claim to be concerned about jobs when they have put forward a package of proposals that would decimate employment in this country and confine millions of people to the dole queues .
14 He says it is natural for an artist to be concerned with the environment , as he 's exposed to it so often when working outside .
15 ‘ We would agree they have got a reason to be concerned about their future . ’
16 The second point was that the lack of accountability in schemes under the Making Belfast Work programme was an important reason to be concerned about Making Belfast Work .
17 The Communist Party , reduced to a low level , had good reason to be concerned at the threat of a new Left party .
18 As we have seen , the Chicago sociologists had every reason to be concerned with gangs engaging in a criminal behaviour .
19 The more that a loss of sales to the second group is compensated by a grant paid by the first , or the more the revenues for the provision of a service to individuals come from grants , the less likely is the bureau to be concerned for consumer interests and , hence , efficiency .
20 It is right for the rest of the world to be concerned at what is happening in Germany .
21 In other words , if uncovered interest rate parity holds , then there is no exchange rate risk to be concerned about : international investment does not provide an additional source of risk compared with domestic investment .
22 Miller ( 1976 ) , for example , links psychological wholeness with a female-identified ability to be concerned with relationships and feelings , as well as logic and achievement .
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