Example sentences of "do [adv] concern [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The work of Piaget ( 1950 ) and Chomsky ( 1957 ) is essentially about thinking and language or psycholinguistics , but these authors did not concern themselves with the level of problem which arises when , for example , a physiologist and a psychologist attempt to exchange mutually supportive ideas .
2 He did not concern himself with the business of creating such a society , only with the description of what it ought to be like : the actual propositions in the book are not to be taken literally , in other words , since he was offering only the ideal model of a better civilization .
3 Generally , though , I did not concern myself with a batsman 's standing .
4 You and your staff will maintain the well-established convention whereby ministers do not concern themselves with the detailed information which may be obtained by the Security Service in particular cases , but are furnished with such information only as may be necessary for the determination of any issue on which guidance is sought .
5 All this will be perfectly satisfactory to those who are willing to stop their analysis of conditioning at this level and who do not concern themselves with the detailed mechanisms that underlie the subject , s sensitivity to these various correlations .
6 The population census does not start from sociological theory and does not concern itself with the formulation of explicit hypotheses .
7 The point of this fracture between regulation broken and its consequences is that it facilitates corporate crime ; executives need only concern themselves with the likelihood of being leniently punished for breaking regulations , whilst ignoring its consequences for the law does not concern itself with the consequences either .
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