Example sentences of "worried by the " in BNC.

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1 Physicalists of the 1950s and 1960s were worried by the following problem .
2 However , there is nothing in the White Paper to act as a positive incentive for such work , and Age Concern is worried by the proposal in Working Paper 3 that once allocations are made to practices holding their own budgets , they will be free to shift expenditure within the year between the individual components of the budget .
3 Yakovlev was worried by the way in which teachers were being turned into what he called ‘ the slaves of the kulaks ’ through their financial dependence on richer peasants in the Kursk guberniia .
4 I was not worried by the griffins and sphinxes , though it is a strange church that features pagan allegories beyond its sanctuary steps .
5 Labour , which has swung round to supporting Europe , is worried by the unaccountability of a central bank despite last week 's assurances from Mr Delors .
6 I am much less worried by the kisses than by the question of the identity of the officer in front of me .
7 The Japanese negotiators are particularly worried by the increasing influence of protectionist French and Italians in the Community .
8 Lately , Georgina had been worried by the general deterioration in his appearance .
9 He was worried by the results , and thought he must be dying to have as feeble a pulse as that .
10 ‘ Ms Penumbra , I really do n't advise that , unless you 're not worried by the possibility of losing the subject . ’
11 O'Boyle eventually became so worried by the secret nature of
12 That is why the market is so worried by the budget deficit and a Labour agenda that has fatally confused government spending with economic recovery .
13 David Dale had been worried by the anarchistic stirrings in France and Europe and was anxious to provide a working environment that would satisfy and care for his work force , as well as increase production .
14 Chana Orloff , who was sitting next to her husband and Modigliani , was a little worried by the grandiose gesture , but the men shrugged and said : ‘ We 'll get a good meal ’ .
15 Maud was worried by the lighting , which Sir George turned on — a dim standard lamp by the fire , a slightly happier lamp , made from a Chinese vase , on the table .
16 The Fleming committee had been set up in response to pressure from the independent schools themselves : their heads and governors had been worried by the drop in enrolments and income in the 1930s , and many hoped to share in the growing national investment that would follow the War .
17 But the Yugoslavs were worried by the links between the Albanians of Kosovo and the Albanians of Albania .
18 He 's been worried by the deer-raiding that 's been going on .
19 Thirdly , and more precisely , social scientists and youth workers themselves were increasingly aware of and worried by the ‘ boy labour ’ topic .
20 Despite the large amount of funding that has been pumped into the scheme teachers are worried by the time it takes for materials and information to get through to them .
21 In fact , he probably enjoyed the nationwide attention he received and there was nothing in his previous conduct to suggest he would be worried by the escalating costs .
22 Around the turn of the century , oralism was at its most fervent in British schools for the deaf while at the same time many deaf people were extremely worried by the lack of education being given .
23 The French were sufficiently worried by the rapidity of German industrialisation and by the quality of their wares that by the 1890s they had begun to invest in Russian railways , coal , steel and textiles as a way of controlling and reducing German competition .
24 He was worried by the decimation of forests by charcoal burners and persuaded King James I to forbid glass furnaces to be fired with wood in 1615 .
25 Being top-line Bunnymen/Joy Division/Cocteaus fans to a man , the band are n't in the least bit worried by the accusation .
26 I was mildly worried by the large postbag .
27 We were so worried by the Oldie editor 's eccentric behaviour , we sent off letters to the agony aunts to ask for their help
28 ‘ On the one hand it has dragged the name of this club through the mud and on the other , as a manager , I have got to be worried by the implications . ’
29 And it is the auditors who should be most worried by the UITF statement and Professor Tweedie 's warning .
30 One would have thought that if firms of auditors were as worried by the threat of litigation as they sometimes suggest , then they would at least have availed themselves of this elementary safeguard .
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