Example sentences of "concern itself [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The CNAA , in its desire to ensure that the courses which it validates are of a sufficiently high standard , has necessarily concerned itself with the resources and ethos of institutions as a whole and has not hesitated to pass judgment on them , going , some would argue , beyond the responsibilities laid upon it by its Royal Charter .
2 A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds .
3 From the start , the NAPSS had a number of energetic women members , and also concerned itself with the question of women 's employment .
4 Protestantism concerned itself with the inscription of dogma , attention to the text , was more emphatically scriptural .
5 Earlier computing concerned itself with the operations of the firm ; modern systems concern themselves with decision-support as well .
6 Sequencing This concerns itself with the problem of the sequence in which the items in the block are to be taught in relation to their usefulness and difficulty .
7 Both are relevant under this heading , which concerns itself with the benefit side of the government budget .
8 The first voice concerns itself with the story , which is loosely based on the tradition of women weaving and chanting to the rhythms of their work .
9 If we claim our interest is to focus on the writing produced only by a sophisticated elite , and that we determine the best literature is that which , in terms of generic structure , subject , and eloquent rhetoric , concerns itself with the preoccupations of males who have a high social and political standing , then the traditional canon will serve the majority of our needs .
10 In addition , she is keenly involved in Headway ( I 'm the Avon patron ) , the Frenchay based charity that concerns itself with the effects and remedial care following head injuries .
11 This report , of the Medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties in the United Kingdom , concerns itself with the diagnosis of brain death , but at the outset acknowledges that ‘ the dilemma of when to switch off the ventilator has been the subject of much public interest . ’
12 The report cited above also concerns itself with the growth in projects creating electronic resources in the humanities , and the increase in those wanting access to information electronically held .
13 One concerns itself with the sorts of personal qualities that are suited to teaching .
14 Rather than concerning itself with the way in which the properties of this structure emerge from its components , it takes the structure as given and asks how it reproduces itself and changes .
15 This is entirely appropriate to a form of academic work which spent much effort in locating and charting such diverse elements as well as increasingly concerning itself with the principles of their harmonious unification within the text .
16 As the BBC 's funding was ‘ assured ’ , it could pursue quality in programming without concerning itself with the needs of the public for , say , popular entertainment .
17 It is clear at that stage the London committee envisaged funding its proposed activities by subscriptions , and that it intended to concern itself with the diseases of cows and sheep as well as horses .
18 Let us leave the last words with Walter Abish who declares that ‘ the innovative novel is , in essence , a novel of disfamiliarization , a novel that has ceased to concern itself with the mapping of the ‘ familiar ’ world ’ ( Martin 1983 : 238 ) .
19 Moreover , it allows us to adjudicate on a matter with which the bible does not concern itself ( as it may be said not to concern itself with the question of the liberation of women ) .
20 The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves .
21 The population census does not start from sociological theory and does not concern itself with the formulation of explicit hypotheses .
22 So , henceforth , ‘ urban ’ sociology would concern itself with the provision of such collective facilities .
23 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 .
24 A sociology of culture must concern itself with the institutions and formations of cultural production , for this is one of the most distinct of its fields .
25 A sociology of culture must further concern itself with the processes of social and cultural ‘ reproduction ’ .
26 The amendments agreed in December 1988 duly provided that while the Council of the Union should concentrate upon economic , diplomatic and other matters affecting the USSR as a whole , the Council of Nationalities should particularly concern itself with the interests of all ethnic groups within the framework of the Soviet multinational state .
27 At the present time the Tribunal may only concern itself with the modification and discharge of restrictive covenants , therefore only the restrictive obligations contained in the agreement .
28 It must further concern itself with the ways in which , within social life , ‘ culture ’ and ‘ cultural production ’ are socially identified and distinguished .
29 In effect this meant accepting that the sociology of knowledge must not concern itself with the truth of knowledge being studied but analyse the ‘ norms of thinking ’ for the participants under study :
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