Example sentences of "concern [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chief Executive Neville Chamberlain said : ‘ We have concerned ourselves with environmental care for many years and are proud of our achievements so far . |
| 2 | Hewlett , author of The Queen 's Quair , brings to mind another writer who had similarly concerned himself with Mary Queen of Scots ( ‘ La Stuarda ’ ) — that is to say , Swinburne in his Mary Stuart . |
| 3 | But then he , himself , had never concerned himself greatly with the case of Michael Holly . |
| 4 | Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world . |
| 5 | Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city . |
| 6 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 7 | Prior to the middle of this century , the Catholic Church had concerned itself predominantly with spiritual matters . |
| 8 | It has concerned itself not simply with financial concepts , such as ‘ cost per pupil ’ but also with outcomes , including in its 1986 report , examination successes , staying-on rates and ‘ sickness absence amongst teachers — a barometer of staff morale . ’ |
| 9 | A second , related problem is that business ethics has mostly concerned itself with grand theorising , trying to answer questions such as ‘ Is capitalism ethically justifiable ? ’ and ‘ Can a profitable business ever be ethical ? ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is also the case that , in practice , social purpose Adult Education has frequently concerned itself exclusively with the small minority of politically active , leftist members of the working class , usually , though not always , via trade union education . |
| 12 | In practice though , research within this framework has concerned itself with " patterns of linguistic behaviour " as made manifest , for example , through narrative or in interviews , rather than looking in detail at conversational encounters . |
| 13 | ‘ Sara has never concerned herself with the business . ’ |
| 14 | The centre of the discussion was the school curriculum ; and it was frequently observed at the time that this was the first occasion on which politicians or the public at large had concerned themselves with what had hitherto been a wholly professional matter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , most studies have concerned themselves with ill effect , notably that of emotional stress . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The predictions that I have concerned myself with are rather more critical . |
| 19 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps you should have concerned yourself as much about avoiding emotional involvement yourself as about protecting me , ’ she said , and her voice was still sharp . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Marx therefore concerned himself extensively with what was happening in China , Indonesia , and India . |
| 23 | Charles also concerned himself with building , and actually helped to design his major cathedral at Aachen , part of which remains today . |
| 24 | Hobhouse concerned himself directly with the evolution of mind at a time when the behaviourist dogma had not yet arrived to inhibit such a discussion . |
| 25 | In his Analogy , Butler concerned himself with the question of what sort of evidence one must possess in order to believe in God . |
| 26 | Raymond Moore & Mary Cooper , Moore concerned himself with the landscape and the mystery of the commonplace . |
| 27 | On the ground he was safe from an hussar 's blade , so Karelius concerned himself with him no more , but urged his mare on down the footpath to join the advance guard in the main street . |
| 28 | Both Courtauld 's and Messrs Jay 's of Regent Street could rest assured , for not one undertaker concerned himself with buying-in to the mourning warehouses , thereby turning the tables on the mercers and upholders . |
| 29 | In preaching at court he concerned himself not with conduct but with theology , proclaiming and elucidating the great facts of the Christian religion , reflecting and meditating on its joyful mysteries . |
| 30 | Baldwin concerned himself with India ; with defence ( in a somewhat spasmodic way ) ; with those day-to-day issues which assume sudden importance in the life of a Government and then , almost as quickly , lose it again ; and with the loose management of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons . |