Example sentences of "concern itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? ’ . |
| 2 | The Committee also concerned itself with other aspects of university life — the training of graduates ; the value of degrees ; the employment of graduates ; the fair consideration of the provincial graduate in competition with those from the older universities ; the participation of graduates in university affairs , in industry , in education and in the Civil Service ; student problems , welfare and accommodation ; university entrance requirements . |
| 3 | For it is indeed time some party concerned itself with all those intangible forms of wealth that can not be included in anything called so appropriately the gross national product . |
| 4 | But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ . |
| 5 | Other issues that the FCC concerned itself with included the control of unruly behaviour ( both by young people and by American Legion club members ! ) , the use of vacant structures and neighbourhood welfare programmes , particularly for the elderly . |
| 6 | A recent issue on MIMS concerned itself with massive , sudden hair loss . |
| 7 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 8 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |
| 9 | Designers ' Saturday is not an exhibition of how to furnish your home , but concerns itself with interior design as a whole . |
| 10 | Finally , of the other 20 , there is a whole miscellany , of which the most interesting concerns itself with monastic products ; however , as these are Trappist , presumably the less said , the better ! |
| 11 | The story concerns itself with those negotiations . |
| 12 | Gedge explained its meaning to Splutter fanzine : ‘ It concerns itself with those factors which cause men to conform to a particular form of sexual stereotyping . |
| 13 | The Board of Banking Supervision concerns itself with three issues : |
| 14 | It concerns itself with domestic UK employment and output arising from Scotch Whisky . |
| 15 | Once the first grading has been successfully completed , the student goes on to the next stage of training , which concerns itself with basic semi-free sparring . |
| 16 | There is also a softer side , which has evolved far beyond the fighting form and concerns itself with psychological and physical development It is called tai chi chuan or the ‘ grand ultimate fist ’ . |
| 17 | The remainder of this chapter concerns itself with these two outer layers . |
| 18 | Others , including Hobson and Brailsford , went further , arguing that any League would have to concern itself with economic and social , as well as purely diplomatic , matters if the deeper causes of war were to be addressed . |
| 19 | This constituted an altogether more active management , which had to concern itself with professional matters . |
| 20 | Science , as we know , has tremendous potential to change the way we live ; yet it professes not to concern itself with moral issues , insisting upon its own objectivity . |
| 21 | A graduate of Exeter College , Oxford , Tolkien had read Classical Mods and then done a version of the English course which was rigidly philological , and did not concern itself with post-medieval literature . |
| 22 | First and foremost has been the belief that the European Economic Community should primarily concern itself with economic matters . |
| 23 | This chapter will concern itself with two basic approaches to evaluation by outsiders : the measurement of the ‘ products ’ or ‘ outcomes ’ of schooling , for example , through testing programmes ; the independent observation of the processes of schooling by outsiders , for example by inspectors . |
| 24 | It is perhaps as well that the British Library does not concern itself with such phenomena , but the absence of the raw material means , again , that it can not be studied properly at what is the centre of literary culture par excellence . |
| 25 | Finally , a sociology of culture must concern itself with general and specific problems of cultural organization . |
| 26 | Since households and families are not autonomous units , the study will also concern itself with wide social and economic structures and concepts . |
| 27 | Private behaviour was viewed by the Committee as the personal and private responsibility of the individual , and the law , it was argued , should only concern itself with those activities which constituted offences against ‘ public order and decency ’ . |
| 28 | A book concerned with the influence of fiction upon taste in architecture and furnishing would properly concern itself with those lesser imaginations , because they popularize what they reflect . |
| 29 | Any professional approach that does not concern itself with supporting and facilitating these same processes of growth for people with learning difficulties must be seriously open to question . |
| 30 | It does not concern itself with encyclopaedic or ’ world ’ knowledge — that is deemed the province of pragmatics . |