Example sentences of "[was/were] concerned [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , both were concerned to some extent with the following : |
| 2 | The details are immaterial , and it is sufficient for present purposes to say that they were concerned with two subjects , namely the accounts of Carrian and a building called Gammon House . |
| 3 | His pathological researches and field studies appeared regularly in the form of official reports presented by Dr J. M. Cuningham , then sanitary commissioner with the government of India , and were concerned with such subjects as cholera , leprosy , ‘ oriental sore ’ , enteric fever , relapsing fever , and prison dietaries . |
| 4 | Both committees , therefore , were concerned with similar questions and they were serviced by the same secretariat . |
| 5 | Mr Toombs had been a founder member of the British premonitions Bureau in 1967 ( it registered 500 premonitions , most of which were concerned with major transport disasters ) . |
| 6 | They were concerned with black body radiation . |
| 7 | For the rest of the time they were concerned with broader matters ( Robinson 1977 , Vol . |
| 8 | In 1940 the National Council of Social Service called together the chief national voluntary societies that were concerned with old people and invited as observers the government departments involved by statute in their care , of which the most prominent were the Ministry of Health and the Assistance Board . |
| 9 | NRA estates officer John Atherton said many of the authority 's functions , as ‘ guardians of the environment ’ were concerned with social welfare . |
| 10 | 18 per cent were concerned with social issues , covering such topics as race , gender , drugs and child abuse ; |
| 11 | Most governments in the old Eastern Bloc were concerned with social discipline , and they also stressed the importance of authority wielded through a strong state , but it would be wrong to see them as Conservative . |
| 12 | In the categorisations adopted by NACAB the greatest number of enquiries were concerned with social security ( 22.9 per cent. ) , consumer and debt ( 20.2 per cent. ) , housing ( 11.6 per cent. ) , employment ( 10.2 per cent. ) , family and personal ( 9.9 per cent. ) , and administration of justice ( 7.5 per cent . ) . |
| 13 | But other writers or perhaps even the same writers in other contexts , were concerned with institutional differences , varieties of law , of systems of government , of property relations , of forms of the family . |
| 14 | " Heads of state and government agreed that member states face common economic challenges , and were concerned at lower growth and increasing unemployment . |
| 15 | The analysts were concerned at this point with improving their understanding , by taking the conceptual model of the IPS as a starting point , and using the instruments to explore the relationships between the model and the actual situation . |
| 16 | Many delegates were concerned about increasing numbers of young people leaving schools and colleges before completing their courses . |
| 17 | Recent surveys had revealed that although 59 per cent of the public were concerned about environmental pollution and its effect on human health and safety , 41 per cent admitted they did n't fully understand environmental issues . |
| 18 | The second MI5 report on the activities of the BUF argued that the Olympia meeting on 7 June 1934 , which so alienated influential opinion , actually increased support amongst those who were concerned about political disruption by left-wing activists . |
| 19 | The ASEAN delegates were concerned about possible changes in the relationship with the EC after 1992 , and with their position as aid recipients amid the developments in Eastern Europe . |
| 20 | Some respondents to FRED 1 were concerned about exceptional items and the prominence they were to be given . |
| 21 | I also pay tribute to those who wrote to us , including the principals of the colleges , the regional authorities which were deeply involved and various organisations — not least the voluntary organisations , which were concerned about particular issues such as students with special needs . |
| 22 | Er Chairman , yes , if I may just make a couple of , of , of , of , of , comments on , on , on the report side , I , I very much welcome the report back which I think has clarified a number of areas in the inspector 's report and what the services are actually , actually are doing about this one , I think er overall it 's er it , it , it 's , it 's very , it 's very er it 's very er very useful to see er what has been done erm I , I , I , I , I 've been assured by the Chief Officer er on item , item er , item three one at the top of page two , that the operational plans being devolved to individual sch will not apply to operational activity , they will be er to separate activity within the s er sch station , erm I did raise that because I was concerned about one station saying yes we will attend the fire and another one saying we wo n't , which obviously is not appropriate er but with that caveat I , I , I , very much welcome the report , I would like to move the proposals sch standing in , in , in , in , in my name that we commend the report as well as er er what 's on the officer 's erm er , er , er recomen er the re the recommended er resolution and that we send a copy of that , this |
| 23 | The French action was condemned by the MDD as an unwarranted interference in Chadian affairs , but was praised by United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs , Herman Cohen , who said that his government was concerned about Libyan influence in Chad . |
| 24 | On Sept. 30 Radio ELBC ( Monrovia ) said that the interim government was concerned at persistent reports of massacres by the NPFL of hundreds of civilians in the north-west . |
| 25 | And that arrogant devil Christie Goldsborough who 'd caused the trouble , so far as Frizingley was concerned at any rate , by egging Ben on to cut the wages at Braithwaite 's mill . |
| 26 | As his later disastrous interventions in politics would make clear , he was a realist in quite a simple-minded sense , one who was concerned for public life , and believed ( like activists of the Left ) that a poet had the right and the duty to act in and upon that life quite directly ; whereas the oddly distant weariness of Eliot 's political pronouncements , even when he was most engagé as editor of True Criterion , revealed a man for whom the psychological reality of private torments took priority over any reality which announced itself as social and public . |
| 27 | Leaving aside the commitment to the ‘ duties ’ of the new ‘ Union Citizens ’ ( which the genuinely non-Federalists in the British party presumably dismissed as ‘ meaningless generality ’ ) , the main text , according to the British view , was concerned with economic matters . |
| 28 | Much of Anand 's visit was concerned with economic relations . |
| 29 | In addition to alerting subjects to the fact that the experiment was concerned with subjective risk , this may have caused them to attend to the stimuli in ways which unnaturally stressed risk-related aspects of the situations . |
| 30 | Although physics was concerned with general theory at that time the trend elsewhere was to emphasize detailed investigations and to avoid general theories . |