Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [been] [adv] concerned [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the global level , both superpowers have been primarily concerned with their relationship with each other , a relationship marked more by rivalry than co-operation . |
| 2 | Mandy 's parents had been understandably concerned at her friendship with Mark , but their demands on her had been bordering on the unreasonable . |
| 3 | It is perhaps partly for this reason that these models have been largely concerned with the short term economic outlook ie over a horizon of up to three years . |
| 4 | Governments have been particularly concerned with the application of pay norms and incomes policies in the railways because of the industry 's size and political salience . |
| 5 | His public activity in industry affairs has been especially concerned with international publishing and copyright matters . |
| 6 | Traditionally , semantic theories have been more concerned with language understanding rather than recognition ; and have in most cases attempted a full exposition of language in all its semantic complexity . |
| 7 | Life stories have not been previously used in this way partly because sociologists have been more concerned with problems of deprivation , and oral historians with recapturing the experience of childhood and early adulthood in previous periods . |
| 8 | Since the appearance of Chomsky 's Syntactic Structures linguists have been deeply concerned with the form or type of grammar that , in principle , could adequately describe natural language . |
| 9 | In recent years Lending Services has been increasingly concerned about the impact of automation on inter-library lending activity and in particular on the Scottish Union Catalogue — concerns which are shared by colleagues in ILL work throughout the UK . |
| 10 | Conversational analysts have been particularly concerned with the use of language to negotiate role-relationships , peer-solidarity , the exchange of turns in a conversation , the saving of face of both speaker and hearer ( cf. |
| 11 | Whereas linguists , philosophers of language and psycho-linguists have , in general , paid particular attention to the use of language for the transmission of ‘ factual or propositional information ’ , sociologists and sociolinguists have been particularly concerned with the use of language to establish and maintain social relationships . |