Example sentences of "[be] [adv] concerned [prep] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are an extremely important development for the civil service and for those parts of the civil service that are especially concerned with delivering service to the customer . |
| 2 | Finally , for Megill , the artist-philosophers are more concerned with interpreting reality as an aesthetic phenomenon than with traditional truth-telling . |
| 3 | They are more concerned with raising cash for their church , saving their scout troop and raising cash for a children 's playground . |
| 4 | Jones ( 1973 , pp. 135–46 ) provides a useful quantification of roles , arguing that three broad categories are identifiable : ( i ) 75 per cent are mainly concerned with representing ward and constituents ' interests ; ( ii ) 5 per cent serve as general policymakers ; ( iii ) 20 per cent serve as policymakers in specific service areas . |
| 5 | Yacht manufacturers should be more concerned with sailing excitement , performance and safety than providing standard internal lay-outs ; acres of teak are lavished on hulls which have insufficient ballast , heavy displacement and low ‘ sail areas . |
| 6 | Unlike the herald who sought to observe and note the outstanding ( the chroniclers , notably Froissart , made good use of the reports of battle given to them by heralds ) , the constable and marshal were more concerned with maintaining order . |
| 7 | The process is much more serious for primitive society , however , for getting older in this sort of world is not just a question of securing certain basic legal rights as it is for us , but is fundamentally concerned with acquiring prestige . |
| 8 | Again , making a comparison between the chief designer and a detail draughtsman , the chief is only concerned with allocating space to designers and specifying overall product constraints . |
| 9 | This book is mainly concerned with obtaining meaning from the printed and pictorial material in books , but it would be a mistake to disregard the other common media of indirect experience . |
| 10 | It would seem by its very name that this enterprise is indeed concerned with associating language with purpose . |
| 11 | Conservatives and liberals are both having a field day , taking liberties on the assumption that the government is too concerned with avoiding trouble to suppress them . |
| 12 | MANCHESTER UNITED were yesterday accused of throwing away the League title because they are too concerned with making money . |
| 13 | … initially gerontology itself was largely concerned with tracing decline in old age … |
| 14 | The woman was more concerned with gathering evidence for her divorce than with the truth , and she was determined to browbeat everyone into believing her . |
| 15 | The Party was particularly concerned with gaining influence among the unemployed and was working with the NUWM as early as 1931 . |
| 16 | The notes were taken early on in the research when I was chiefly concerned with documenting pollution control work , thus they should suggest something of the nature of the job — routine tasks as well as special problems — which an officer can encounter on a summer 's day . |
| 17 | In the case , the Dutch local authority terminated its funding to the Dr Sophie Redmond Foundation , which was principally concerned with providing assistance to drug addicts , and transferred the funding along with the building in which the Foundation worked , to the Sigma Foundation . |
| 18 | At the time , the Board was primarily concerned with accounting standard-setting for business organizations , but it saw the need to involve itself with non-business organizations as well and this research study was its first move in that direction . |