Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] concerned " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 the granting of planning permission for rural housing has arguably been concerned with the visual quality of the countryside rather than with alleviating problems of housing need . |
| 2 | Palaeontological work has largely been concerned with Mesozoic and Tertiary studies in support of the petroleum geology programme for the Department of Energy and with particular problems of Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy . |
| 3 | In approaching these questions , he first argues that the criminal law has always been concerned with morals , or moral principles , and that these moral principles are , in this country , inextricably tied to religion — ‘ the moral standards generally accepted in western civilisation being those belonging to Christianity ’ . |
| 4 | The NI has always been concerned to point out what is wrong with the Green Revolution : that it favours richer farmers who can afford its high-yield seeds and extra fertiliser ; that its ecological impact is worrying . |
| 5 | As has already been noted above , the Commission has always been concerned to examine the nature of national regional policy instruments for signs of domestic protectionism . |
| 6 | Nevertheless it must be realised that the energy we now devote to curriculum content has tended to overshadow and obliterate the debate about curriculum delivery with which this chapter has also been concerned . |
| 7 | Singapore has also been concerned about the role of Vietnam in Southeast Asia . |
| 8 | Western moral thought has also been concerned with the related question of whether the fetus is a person , with all the attendant rights of a human being . |
| 9 | The committee has also been concerned during 1992 to enquire further into the terms upon which banks and finance houses offer services to members of the Bar . |
| 10 | In the UK the industry has been losing sales estimated at one million cases a year and has also been concerned about the message being sent from this country to export markets , implying that high excise duty levels may be acceptable . |
| 11 | Assessment in particular subject areas , including mathematics , has traditionally been concerned mainly with knowledge and techniques . |
| 12 | One investigator who has put weight on the relationship with affective , rather than schizophrenic , disorder is the American psychiatrist , Andreasen , whose work , also carried out within a partly genetics context , is of particular interest here because it has mainly been concerned with writers . |
| 13 | Before the 1967 war Syria , Egypt and Jordan had all been concerned with the issues of Arab nationalism . |
| 14 | Beth had long been concerned about Cissie 's ‘ wanderings ’ . |
| 15 | The common law had largely been concerned with action to restore order after disorder had taken place . |
| 16 | In the nineteenth century architects had largely been concerned with special buildings produced for civic , commercial , ecclesiastical and landowner clients . |
| 17 | We 've always been concerned with self-improvement , slowly re-building and extending our steadings and houses . |
| 18 | In recent months bilateral relations had also been concerned with the withdrawal , due to be completed by December 1994 , of more than 370,000 Soviet troops from eastern Germany . |
| 19 | I 've purely been concerned with the budgets of our own schools here in Oxfordshire and one of the ways that you can compare how efficient Oxfordshire is in terms of its expenditure is by looking at the national figures for recoupment , that 's where a county takes in a child from another county , and look how that compares with the amount of money the Authority spends on educating that child . |
| 20 | Hitherto , the ecumenical gatherings had chiefly been concerned with theological issues , even if matters of discipline such as the manner of determining the date of Easter had crept in . |
| 21 | CALLS FOR an independent body to monitor the Government 's use of statistics followed two recent cases which attracted widespread criticism , but some academics have long been concerned about the independence of British official statistics . |
| 22 | I have long been concerned about the time lapse from the commissioning of a book to its appearance in the shops . |
| 23 | In these appeals we have only been concerned with the obligation to give the contemnor this written record , but in most of the reported cases there have been other breaches of procedures in addition to a breach of this nature . |
| 24 | Democrats have always been concerned about the abuse of power , not petty larceny . |
| 25 | Financial accounting techniques have traditionally been concerned with the stewardship function , narrowly defined . |
| 26 | Geographers have traditionally been concerned with the relationship between settlements and the physical and/or natural background . |
| 27 | We have also been concerned with locating patterns of change in relation to the social variables of sex and network , in particular . |
| 28 | Swansea City Council have also been concerned with revitalising a decaying inner urban area based upon the decaying South Dock Area . |
| 29 | We have mainly been concerned with the modern ‘ computational ’ version of the representational theory of mind ; but , as I shall mention again later , the more traditional views of mental life are no less representational — phenomenology , for example , is a representational theory of mind . |
| 30 | We have recently been concerned by prominent publicity in the media in Wales relating to the screening programme proposed by the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association and consider that more harm than good is likely to result from such a programme . |