Example sentences of "[noun pl] had been concerned " in BNC.
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| 1 | All my thoughts , actions and energies for the last four months had been concerned only with Nigel . |
| 2 | During Hart 's time the responsibilities of the customs had been concerned only with the collection of duties and the prevention of smuggling ; Chinese officials were responsible for banking the revenue and for its use in the service of loans and other financial obligations to foreign governments for which it was security . |
| 3 | Federation officials had been concerned that the scheme , part of the proposed £1 million Citywatch crime prevention campaign for the city , would cut across traditional police duties and set a precedent for a privatised police force . |
| 4 | Where once biologists and biochemists had been concerned with questions about where and how cells got and used their energy , the new molecular biologists had a different language for what was important . |
| 5 | Police had been concerned about the welfare of George Heinrich Leigers , 35 , a patient of St Luke 's Hospital , Middlesbrough . |
| 6 | For some time before Rylands v. Fletcher the courts had been concerned with the extent of a person 's liability for the escape of an accumulation of water from his land during the normal course of mining operations . |
| 7 | The concept of a system was not new because Newton had written on the solar system , biologists had been concerned with living systems , and geography had implicitly used notions of the systems concept since early days of the subject . |
| 8 | Previously , Conventions regulating contracts had been concerned with only one contractual relationship , for example , the relationship between shipper and carrier or between seller and buyer . |
| 9 | But then earlier laws had been concerned with tales about the monarchy , where this one related to the regent and the French . |
| 10 | Throughout the inter-war years Labour politicians had been concerned with the preservation of peace . |
| 11 | For many years biologists and botanists had been concerned with developing methods for eliminating extraneous variables in their research in order that the factor in which they were primarily interested could be more effectively gauged as to its effects . |