Example sentences of "concerned [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 FINANCIAL consultants are becoming increasingly concerned about the activities of North Star Ventures , an Isle of Man company collecting thousands of pounds in advance fees for cheap loans , a number of which have so far failed to turn up .
2 Both were concerned about the repercussions of instability on the Ethiopian border , and sought to " focus on a new reconciliation conference , giving more space to military chiefs " .
3 As I have already said , the Government are seriously concerned about the shootings in East Timor on 12 November .
4 ‘ I do think I can be concerned about the problems in America , but I think feeling guilty is useless , and maybe that compounds the arrogance .
5 Here in the region , the Oxford district health uthority has set up a working party on doctors hours … they 're concerned about the effects on doctors and patients .
6 However , OFWAT is concerned about the effects on health of those disconnected .
7 However , the committee was concerned about the effects on business of the high rates of interest which occur in an inflationary economy .
8 Financial intermediaries , predominantly banks , are not particularly concerned about the effects of inflation on their balance sheets , so long as their loans and deposits are all made on a similar basis .
9 The other vendors held back , concerned about the costs of PostScript licenses , the speed of the imaging process and numerous other issues of which font availability was certainly one .
10 While she approves of mothers getting the opportunity to try new products , she was concerned about the contents of bounty boxes .
11 Coroner Dr Paul Knapman said at Westminster Coroner 's Court : ‘ He was concerned about the events in Bosnia and the lack of action by politicians in the West .
12 The first known students of language in the Western tradition , the scholars of Greece and Rome , were aware of these different approaches too , and divided grammar from rhetoric , the former being concerned with the rules of language as an isolated object , the latter with how to do things with words , to achieve effects , and communicate successfully with people in particular contexts .
13 Acknowledging the concepts of Dansereau ( 1957 ) that man creates new genotypes and new ecosystems , he considers nature without man as natural biogeography in Part I of his book and then uses this as a datum against which to set the larger Part II in which cultural biogeography is concerned with the effects of man in changing the genetic make-up of plants and animals , in redistributing them over the earth 's surface , and in altering the structure of many ecosystems .
14 Section 5.2 is concerned with the effects of inflation .
15 Lubow , Rifkin , and Alek ( 1976 ) have explicitly investigated the role of the context in a series of experiments concerned with the effects of pre-exposure on discrimination learning in both children and in rats .
16 Indeed in one section , concerned with the effects of improvement and major repairs on the number of houses to be replaced , the report comments that ‘ Solomon himself would not have known the correct answer ’ .
17 Nor were these men , like their predecessors in Italy , always concerned with the niceties of loyalty .
18 However , the republican movement of the 1870s seems to have been more concerned with the failures of Victoria , rather than with the peccadilloes of her son ( Roby , 1975 ) .
19 However , accountants , who also ought to be concerned with the concepts of accountability listed under Divisions I and II , have not traditionally played a major role .
20 In the nineteen hundreds , he was concerned with the foundations of mathematics , and then for the remainder of his life , roughly between nineteen-ten and nineteen-fifty , or indeed to the very end of his life , he was concerned with two sets of knowledge , erm problems in the theory of knowledge , and problems about social organization and personal conduct .
21 Since they are primarily concerned with the rights of commoners , and the Forestry Commission with timber production , there has naturally in the past been a divergence of interest and policy in the New Forest between these two authorities .
22 Even so , these measures , like the abolition of corporal punishment before them , are not primarily concerned with the rights of children .
23 It has always been said that the House is concerned with the rights of individuals and that any injustice , or possible injustice , to an individual is as much the concern of the House of Commons as is injustice to a large number of people .
24 Parliament on March 27 and 28 approved a range of new laws concerned with the rights of association , assembly and petition , the press and citizenship .
25 The second method of creating harmony in free twelve-note music is mostly concerned with the qualities of intervals ( their different degrees of consonance or dissonance ) , their combination in chords , and the control of the horizontal flow of such chords .
26 Golding 's own fictional worlds , unlike Amis 's or Murdoch 's , have tended to be enclosed , which may be natural to one whose early experience has been in naval life and schoolteaching ; and unlike theirs , powerfully concerned with the perils of code-breaking and a sense of shame .
27 The first five are basically concerned with the structures of literature and the various ways in which an author expresses himself .
28 His Ordo was primarily concerned with the forces of Chaos from the warp which could possess vulnerable individuals of psychic talent , twisting them into tools of insanity .
29 Aside from using it twice in relation to Abdulkerim , he uses it on only three other occasions , at least in his articles concerned with the Muftis under consideration : first , in the general statement which forms the basis for his rejection of the Muftilik of Molla Yegan to the effect that all the ulema are empowered to give fetvas ; second , in connection with Molla Yegan himself ; and third , twice in regard to Molla Shaykh " Abd al-Karim al-Kadiri ( Seyh Abdulkerim ) , who seems to have held an ad hominem muftilik , not connected with the Muftilik of Istanbul , in the time of Suleyman .
30 Civic design was as much concerned with the spaces between buildings as with the appearance of the buildings themselves , and the same held for the design of residential areas .
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