Example sentences of "to concern [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 28 the West German Defence Minister , Gerhard Stoltenberg , rejected the latter suggestion but declared : " It is remarkable that the Soviet President is now beginning to concern himself in public with the prerequisites for [ German ] NATO membership . " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This constituted an altogether more active management , which had to concern itself with professional matters . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If it had ever existed , the cosy Whitehall corridor was long gone , though Agnes sometimes wondered what it would be like to concern herself with frustrating only other countries ' spies . |
| 6 | Clergymen have no business to concern themselves with Civil affairs . ’ |
| 7 | When young people play central parts in adventure stones , their motives and actions are as a rule suitably moderated nor are they expected to concern themselves with elaborate points of honour . |
| 8 | It was , it seems , to prevent this ‘ premature interest ’ that the family , and its moralists , were so anxious to concern themselves with sexual manifestations . |
| 9 | Teachers in schools simply have no alternative to making language their principal means of interaction with pupils , they have daily and inevitably to produce , elicit , and evaluate spoken and written text , to concern themselves with literary and language development . |