Example sentences of "concern [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Sara has never concerned herself with the business . ’ |
| 4 | It is this portability aspect of programs , and the conventional hardware — software distinction that goes with it , that has most interested those in AI who have concerned themselves with the relation of brains to minds : there has been an easy temptation to exploit the hardware — software distinction as a model of the brain — mind distinction . |
| 5 | Western institutional theorists have concerned themselves with the problem of ensuring that the exercise of governmental power , which is essential to the realization of the values of their societies , should be controlled in order that it should not itself be destructive of the values it was intended to promote . |
| 6 | Simultaneously , he concerned himself with the idea that cities were necessary , not evil , but that ‘ without the life of the soil from which to draw its strength , the urban culture must lose its source of strength and rejuvenescence ’ . |
| 7 | In his Analogy , Butler concerned himself with the question of what sort of evidence one must possess in order to believe in God . |
| 8 | Raymond Moore & Mary Cooper , Moore concerned himself with the landscape and the mystery of the commonplace . |
| 9 | In Wrexham grandfather had been an active Gladstonian Liberal , and concerned himself with the temperance movement and local government . |
| 10 | Protestantism concerned itself with the inscription of dogma , attention to the text , was more emphatically scriptural . |
| 11 | A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds . |
| 12 | Whereas the nineteenth-century state concerned itself with the common affairs of all capital owners , the growth of giant industrial corporations and of large financial combines has now led to the almost complete exclusion of other capitalist fractions from influence over the state . |
| 13 | Four of these were members of the networks under observation , but lived in neighbouring townships and so were excluded from the quantitative analysis which concerned itself with the known-unknown ratio in specific townships . |
| 14 | From the start , the NAPSS had a number of energetic women members , and also concerned itself with the question of women 's employment . |
| 15 | For example , in Lonrho/House of Fraser ( 1979 ) , it concerned itself with the managerial capacity of a particular individual . |
| 16 | Dope was n't , but the drug legal advice service ‘ Release ’ which concerned itself with the increasing number of busts — and junkies — began operating in West London . |
| 17 | Earlier computing concerned itself with the operations of the firm ; modern systems concern themselves with decision-support as well . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | The Melanesian group , stretching in a broken line to the east of the immense and mountainous island of Papua New Guinea , includes the Solomons , Vanuatu and Fiji , each an independent , free-standing state ; but the Australians look after Norfolk Island , and there are French possessions too , in New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands , with gendarmes , soldiers from Lyons and Marseilles , and offices of that wondrously-named bureaucracy , the DOM-TOM , which concerns itself with the Déartements Outres-Mer et Territoires Outres-Mer . |
| 20 | Bishop John Crowley writing to the priests and religious in the diocese , says : ‘ The next Synod of Bishops concerns itself with the Consecrated Life in the Church and the World . |
| 21 | One concerns itself with the sorts of personal qualities that are suited to teaching . |
| 22 | The Unidroit convention ( for which the initiative was taken by Mussolini , thus making it older than Unesco , which at times performs a similar task ) , concerns itself with the legal aspects of stolen and illegally exported works of art . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There is also a sizeable literature on explaining the size distribution of income which concerns itself with the specific shape this takes ( positively skewed ( right-hand tail ) and leptokurtic ( hump-shaped ) or leptokurtic lognormal ) , both over different time periods and in different countries . |
| 28 | Both are relevant under this heading , which concerns itself with the benefit side of the government budget . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In concerning ourselves with the needs of pupils , we may too long have ignored the need to give our teachers services and support and help them to feel adequate to cope with the demands that education in the modern world is making upon them . |