Example sentences of "[noun sg] has been concerned " in BNC.
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| 1 | The national park has been concerned for some time about the volume of heavy lorries using roads through the park . |
| 2 | From the middle ages , Parliament has been concerned with the problems , central to the national economy , of productivity and the control of wages . |
| 3 | Of course it is difficult to generalise over time and between parties with respect to the relations between party and Prime Minister , but in the recent past it has become clear that the Labour Party outside Parliament has been concerned to exert a greater measure of effective control over Labour Prime Ministers . |
| 4 | The board has been concerned for some years about the possible impact of excessive dependence on coal — used for 80 per cent of electricity currently generated — if developments in the domestic or international coal market push prices up rapidly . |
| 5 | A substantial part of the literature has been concerned with the properties of steady-state or balanced growth . |
| 6 | ‘ For some time the bloodstock industry has been concerned about competition from our EC counterparts , and this was threatening 30,000 jobs . ’ |
| 7 | The chancel belonging to the rector may not be in the same style as the nave maintained by the parishioners , reflecting differences in wealth or involvement Even in those churches where the rector was a monastery , there may be a variety of interest displayed , from great ostentation where the monastery has been concerned to maintain its property , to neglect where the church is on a distant or poor estate , or where the monastery itself was poor . |
| 8 | This chapter has been concerned to sketch in the general background to the reign of Mary Queen of Scots , and to clear it of some of the misconceptions about Scottish kingship which have tended to confuse the issues . |
| 9 | This chapter has been concerned with the AL of maintaining a safe environment . |
| 10 | Rather , what this chapter has been concerned to make clear is that the potential impact of records of achievement , as well as that of the GCSE , can not be determined without making reference to both initiatives . |
| 11 | This chapter has been concerned with the central machinery for making and executing the decisions of the Crown . |
| 12 | We come finally to a statement which is controversial , and about which much of this chapter has been concerned : ( vii ) Stylistic choice is limited to those aspects of linguistic choice which concern alternative ways of rendering the same subject matter . |
| 13 | So far , this chapter has been concerned mainly with the stock of dwellings and the stock of households . |
| 14 | Much of this chapter has been concerned with specifically linguistic difficulties of quantifying variables . |
| 15 | This chapter has been concerned with outlining the principal methods by which suppliers of products bring their goods and services to the attention of their markets , with the object of increasing their sales or market share , or both . |
| 16 | Most of his research has been concerned with conditioning the ‘ eyeblink ’ response in rabbits . |
| 17 | Traditionally , governmental audit has been concerned with the financial and regularity audit . |
| 18 | The committee has been concerned by the high numbers of planning applications granted by six Welsh councils in defiance of published development plans . |
| 19 | But most human electrophysiological work has been concerned with the processing of incoming events , that is the ERP that follows the presentation of a stimulus . |
| 20 | A lot of my work has been concerned with this area and as my experience has grown I have learnt to wait until the people involved tell me they want to talk . |
| 21 | Most of the comparative work has been concerned with ASL and French Sign Language . |
| 22 | Moreover , much of the work has been concerned with the analysis of the spectra and the interpretation of the parameters obtained in terms of theory ; though this is an essential part of understanding of the chemistry of transition metals , it is less directly related to determining the structures of their compounds . |
| 23 | However , a paper read at the International Bar Asssociation meeting in the summer by the Spanish lawyer on the Thyssen Foundation 's board , Rodrigo Uria , and Richard Turnor , of the firm of Allen and Overy acting for Baron Thyssen , reveals that the Baron has been concerned to keep his options open : not a single work of art was sent into Spain until it had already been granted its export licence out of Spain . |
| 24 | Where the fund of damages is likely to be substantial , including future nursing costs and the like as well as loss of earnings , an accountant 's evidence can help the court to decide the multiplier , as well as the multiplicand , for example in the case of a one-man business where the accountant has been concerned with the accounts over a number of years and is in a position to give an expert opinion as to the future prospects of the business . |
| 25 | Ever since the ‘ permissive ’ sixties , the moral Right has been concerned that the distinctions between public and private morality have become blurred . |
| 26 | In fact , most researchers now believe that , on their own , the principles of learning theory are insufficient to account for the child 's mastery of language ; the bulk of the research on children 's language which has been carried out since the publication of Verbal Behaviour has been concerned with illuminating other processes which may be involved . |
| 27 | In all these cases the court has been concerned to ensure that these fundamental requirements are met in the way in which , particularly in the case of the county courts , they are intended to be and should be met . |
| 28 | Liberal democracy has been concerned most explicitly with legitimating the power of the state , or public power . |
| 29 | Since its report on the problem in July 1989 , the commission has been concerned that the gene pool and ecosystem may be irrevocably changed should man-made mutants escape into the environment . |
| 30 | In this chapter the discussion of rationalism and relativism has been concerned almost exclusively with appraisals and judgements about aspects of knowledge . |