Example sentences of "concerning [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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1 | In concerning ourselves with the needs of pupils , we may too long have ignored the need to give our teachers services and support and help them to feel adequate to cope with the demands that education in the modern world is making upon them . |
2 | We adopted the position and as soon as the issue 's resolved the better so I 'm somewhat reluctant in saying that Jack Straw could be less equivocal about C C T rather than concerning himself with what is written on the back of his party card . |
3 | The marking response can play a vital part in promoting this linguistic growth through establishing a dialogue , and not merely concerning itself with surface features of the writing , or the routine correction of technical errors . |
4 | As the BBC 's funding was ‘ assured ’ , it could pursue quality in programming without concerning itself with the needs of the public for , say , popular entertainment . |
5 | Rather than concerning itself with the way in which the properties of this structure emerge from its components , it takes the structure as given and asks how it reproduces itself and changes . |
6 | ‘ Legal theory ’ is sometimes taken as being synonymous with ‘ jurisprudence ’ and is sometimes regarded as concerning itself with a narrower range of questions — in particular , What is the nature of law ? |
7 | This is entirely appropriate to a form of academic work which spent much effort in locating and charting such diverse elements as well as increasingly concerning itself with the principles of their harmonious unification within the text . |
8 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
9 | For instance , a group of adolescents intending to look at how a family might drive one of its members to suicide , began their drama by working out the family 's relative positions round the graveside , concerning themselves with ‘ how it would look if it were a still photograph ’ . |
10 | The quest for identifiable crime-prone personality types has included learning theorists as well as heredity theorists , psychoanalysts ( ‘ anti-social ’ or ‘ affectionless ’ personality theories ) , and studies not concerning themselves with the question of how such types come about . |
11 | Fragments of papyri from the second millennium BC seem to be the first writings to deal exclusively with the subject matter of dreams , mainly concerning themselves with incest and bestiality with various animals . |
12 | Senior officials could carry on with the day-to-day business of the state without concerning themselves with any kind of specialist ministerial control . |