Example sentences of "was concerned that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was concerned that residents missed out on last year 's winter warming cash because they came under the Whitby weather station where temperatures are warmer than in Boosbeck , Lingdale , Stanghow and Moorsholm villages . |
| 2 | Gerry Collins was concerned that Thistle had shot themselves in the foot again . |
| 3 | He was concerned that Clift 's continuing sessions with Silverberg were making him worse , and he tried to get Silverberg to commit Clift to Silver Hill Sanatorium for a hopeful cure . |
| 4 | He was concerned that parents would want to see their children doing ‘ real ’ maths , and advised injecting investigations into the existing syllabus instead . |
| 5 | He was concerned that Britain was becoming the dustbin of Europe and wanted to see stricter controls on the dumping of toxic waste . |
| 6 | The Miyazawa government , conscious of recent regional criticism of the behaviour of imperial Japanese troops in occupied south-east Asia , however , was concerned that Akihito might be embarrassed by questions or protests relating to Japan 's conquest of large portions of China between 1931 and 1945 , and to the millions of Chinese civilians who were killed in this process . |
| 7 | As a physics teacher , I was concerned that students , working on their practical investigations , were achieving success in assessment terms without showing any understanding of the generative skills during one-to-one discussion with me . |
| 8 | France , however , was concerned that enlargement would detract from moves towards European union and increase the influence of Germany in the EC . |
| 9 | She welcomed the work done and the fact that so many people who had been waiting for so long had been treated , but was concerned that health workers who had been working flat out to reduce the lists would not be able to maintain their work rate . |
| 10 | Mr Carruthers said that the vast majority of evidence was over but acknowledged he was concerned that Mr McTear would not be able to conclude his testimony . |
| 11 | Then he hesitated because he had left it too late and he was concerned that Tom would walk in through the door again at any minute . |
| 12 | Management was , however , not satisfied that decisions had been really ‘ pushed down ’ into the high-performance teams , and was concerned that production pressures had overridden their concern with group autonomy . |
| 13 | He was concerned that preachers of the Word should also take it into homes and minister it at closer quarters . |
| 14 | Walesa , however , was concerned that Olszewski could not ensure the continuation of the economic reform programme or a stable parliamentary majority , and instead apparently snubbed the centre-right by appointing his former driver Mieczyslaw Wachowski to negotiate on Nov. 19 . |
| 15 | Numbers increased slightly in March ( to around 14,500 ) , but Kleiner was concerned that job shortages had caused up to 1,000,000 Soviet Jews to cancel or postpone emigrating to Israel . |