Example sentences of "concerned [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a remarkably brief document , providing so far as service of documents is concerned for letters of request to be addressed by a diplomatic or consular officer of the requesting state to the competent authority of the requested state , and for the execution of any request the authenticity of which was not in doubt unless the requested state considered that this would be contrary to its public policy . |
| 2 | He particularly was concerned about problems of scale as a practical problem , that is it may well be in a small town you could have a direct democracy , a face-to-face community where people can talk to each other and argue with each other and meet on a regular basis , but as soon as you get cities , countries , nations , direct democracy of any sort is erm absurd |
| 3 | The Alzheimer 's Disease Society is concerned about surveys by Community Care and Doctor which indicate that local authority financial cuts under the new community care system will affect elderly people and other groups ( News , page 1 and ‘ Can the rift be healed ’ 1 April ) . |
| 4 | But the Home Office told us it was concerned about attacks on prison officers and it will be reviewing staffing levels . |
| 5 | Glennerster , for example , while supporting the general aims of decentralisation , warns of the dangers of damaging inter-agency co-ordination and planning ; he is particularly concerned about links with health services and the fate of specialist teams concerned with mental handicap , mental illness and geriatric assessment . |
| 6 | The mid-1970s brought increased economic pressure to bear on all business activities , and this had the effect of making advertising agencies become more concerned about reductions in company advertising budgets . |
| 7 | Finally , the appeal to the Privy Council encounters a further hurdle , in the shape of the long-established reluctance of the Board to interfere where the appeal is brought by special leave , except in cases of a serious miscarriage of justice , a reluctance which is even greater where the appeal is concerned with matters of procedure . |
| 8 | The core of the discipline is concerned with matters of space , light , structure , colour and movement . |
| 9 | Strasser said that the changes would give " a civilian face to the government , while the NPRC [ would ] be concerned with matters of nation-building " . |
| 10 | The first part of this paper is concerned with matters of record . |
| 11 | In its place the councillors now found an amalgam of interest groups , some class-based , some not , some based on workplace issues , others concerned with matters of production . |
| 12 | However , it did n't invite you to consider whether that change was sensible or not , and the bulk of it was still concerned with matters of detail . |
| 13 | Debates on the floor of the House are rarely concerned with matters of detail . |
| 14 | Furthermore , the manual is concerned with matters of design alone and does not address the benefits that might arise from legal changes — because it can not . |
| 15 | Both families had ties with greater men , who were more concerned with affairs of State , and they were affected by political turmoil , particularly the Stonors , who suffered forfeiture in 1483 for rebelling against Richard III , but both had come through the earlier phase of the dynastic struggle with relatively minor scars . |
| 16 | Seeing racism as determining rather than determinate , at the centre rather than in the margins , also means accepting that Britain 's crisis is centrally and emphatically concerned with notions of race and national identity . |
| 17 | ( d ) Special problems Provisions relating to time The terms may contain a number of provisions concerned with periods of time : for example , they may set limits on the time for action to be taken , including the time for delivery , the service of notices , notification of claims and payment of the price . |
| 18 | 106 ; Sargood Brothers v. The Commonwealth , 11 C.L.R. 258 and Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , were all concerned with claims for money paid under compulsion or colore officii . |
| 19 | As criterion referencing is concerned with descriptions of performance this exercise may give an indication about how some criteria might be expressed . |
| 20 | Some employers sponsor students by paying fees and maintenance ; there is widespread employer involvement in various forms of sandwich courses and work placements including , in some cases , co-operation in student assessment ; there are endowed chairs at universities and polytechnics ; there are sponsored courses sometimes with a single client as customer for the whole student cohort ; employers sit on various boards and committees concerned with activities from course unit level to governing body ; employers use academics as consultants and engage academic departments to do research for them ; there are sponsored research and collaborative projects ; and curriculum material is available at all levels — usually for free — from industrial and commercial bodies . |
| 21 | Recall from section 1.5.1 that these theories are concerned with innovations in production processes and products . |
| 22 | Second , this account is not solely or even primarily concerned with innovations in machinery and instruments : a central part of the analysis is the organization of labour . |
| 23 | This research is concerned with obligations between adult relatives ( excluding spouses ) to provide practical and material assistance for each other , especially : providing personal care ; giving or lending money ; offering a home on a temporary or permanent basis . |
| 24 | From Booth onwards , there has been a strong tradition of empirical social research in Britain , much of it concerned with studies of poverty and other matters of social welfare . |
| 25 | Issue will be taken with the appropriateness of applying the concept of punishment to the probation context through reference to a demanding and successful probation project concerned with offenders in trouble through drink . |
| 26 | As Crick ( 1976 : 123 ) has argued , ‘ criminology ( like anthropology ) , is largely concerned with systems of classification ’ . |
| 27 | Elliott 's development of the research model will be discussed in Chapter 11 because it is very much concerned with strategies for action . |
| 28 | For example , the definition of the judicial function may vary according to whether we are concerned with rules about contempt of court , absolute privilege in the law of defamation , judicial immunity from actions in tort , or the applicability of the rules of natural justice . |
| 29 | Group members ' perceptions of expected behaviour are concerned with bits of behaviour ( ‘ Can I make jokes in this group ? ’ ) , rather than with the behaviour as a continuing phenomenon ( ‘ Do I have a sense of humour ? ’ ) . |
| 30 | Some were cheered , however , by the news that thanks to lobbying by a group concerned with problems of underdevelopment , ‘ Schema 17 ’ , which treated of the Church and poverty , would be placed at the beginning of session three , to be introduced as soon as the debate on the Church had been completed . |