Example sentences of "concern itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 First and foremost has been the belief that the European Economic Community should primarily concern itself with economic matters .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Finally , a sociology of culture must concern itself with general and specific problems of cultural organization .
6 Since households and families are not autonomous units , the study will also concern itself with wide social and economic structures and concepts .
7 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 ’ .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 It does not concern itself with encyclopaedic or ’ world ’ knowledge — that is deemed the province of pragmatics .
11 Some of the American literature on the SEM does concern itself with this issue , e.g. Belous and Hartley ( 1990 ) , and Brainard and Perry ( 1989 ) .
12 The EC does not concern itself with national health or education policies .
13 So although positivist criminology did concern itself with social and economic conditions , in a way that classical criminology did not , it mostly ended up just as timid-looking as far as drawing ‘ corrective ’ conclusions was concerned .
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