Example sentences of "[pron] concern over " in BNC.
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| 1 | My concern over this for almost as long as I can remember . |
| 2 | Their plight made me feel rather guilty about my concern over the mosquito bites on my face . |
| 3 | Trivial or shallow , in particular , are criticisms levelled at young women for their concern over their appearance ; one of the worst current insults you can throw at an actress or pop star is that she 's a bimbo — concerned only with her looks and nothing else . |
| 4 | The signatories could congratulate themselves in not forgetting important details in their concern over large aims . |
| 5 | During a further meeting about the problems , some of the nursery nurse staff expressed their concern over the attitude of this group of students . |
| 6 | When the foreign ministers of the non-aligned states assembled in February 1981 a Soviet commentary linked their concern over tensions in the ‘ Arab Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula ’ to the expansion of the American military presence in Oman and American arms sales to Somalia and Egypt . |
| 7 | Among other matters , the G-7 Finance Ministers reaffirmed their concern over the yen , although they noted that it had stabilized since their last meeting in April . |
| 8 | The ministers had expressed their concern over the conflict at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) meeting in late March [ see p. 38841 ] and a meeting of " experts " from the four Foreign Ministries on March 31 to April 1 had prepared proposals for the Foreign Ministers ' meeting . |
| 9 | During the conference the leaders expressed their concern over traditional regional issues including nuclear tests , the incineration of chemical weapons on Johnston Atoll , and the threat posed by rising sea levels . |
| 10 | DARLINGTON dentists have met the town 's MP to discuss their concern over Government plans to reduce the amount it pays them for NHS work . |
| 11 | AI has appealed to Brazilian parliamentarians expressing its concern over the moves to reinstate the death penalty . |
| 12 | But it has expressed its concern over proposals in the Treasury 's consultative document which seek to impose similar formal and detailed requirements for control and communication on professionals , such as lawyers and accountants , as well as on banks and building societies . |
| 13 | The 1988 Green Paper ( Home Office 1988b ) announced its concern over the numbers of offenders sentenced to custody . |
| 14 | The position of Morocco was complex in that the government , having committed forces on the allied side , was compelled by the strength of domestic feeling to express its concern over the war . |
| 15 | It was now criticized as anachronistic , and the German government had signalled for some time its concern over rising costs and their justifiability at a time when German unification put great strains on the public finances [ see also pp. 37212 ; 38508 ] . |
| 16 | It amounted to a coded acknowledgement of the barely-supressed rage of Conservative MPs , mostly on the right , whose concern over a fresh wave of ‘ large-scale immigration ’ hitting overcrowded facilities in Britain was clothed yesterday in language close to that of Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow Foreign Secretary , who called the plan ‘ inherently unworkable , invidious and divisive ’ , and demanded details on how it would work . |
| 17 | But Reid 's fury was outweighed by his concern over Paul Lake , who was carried off after seven minutes with what appeared to be a recurrence of the knee injury that kept him out for two years . |
| 18 | Bill Brett , general secretary of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants , which includes air traffic controllers and transport safety inspectors declared his concern over the cuts in the safety inspectorate over the recent years , and growing pressure on overworked air traffic controllers coping with increased traffic . |
| 19 | The UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , had sent a letter on Dec. 12 to the German government , expressing his concern over German intentions . |
| 20 | Whilst this removal is extremely welcome , our concern over the efficacy of the clutch of up-grading schemes programmed for the A5 in ‘ Roads in Wales ’ , remains strong . |
| 21 | IN CASES OF EJEs ; Express your concern over the reported deaths of individuals in custody ( refer to victims by name , as above ) ; explain that the first step to prevent such killings would be to undertake thorough and impartial investigations ; urge that a commission of inquiry be established in accordance with the United Nations Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal , Arbitrary and Summary Executions ( 1989 ) , and that those responsible be brought to justice . |