Example sentences of "[verb] to concern [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In practice this means that we do n't need to concern ourselves with the contents of such data files ; they 're not for human consumption without previous digestion by a computer . |
| 3 | Clearly , we would not need to concern ourselves with the meaning of analogue information if all sources of text , numerics , sounds and images were digital . |
| 4 | Erm , we do n't really need to concern ourselves with it in detail , thank God , because genetics is a terribly complicated business and awfully technical and I do n't understand a , a tenth of it , and we do n't really need to . |
| 5 | It is a disgrace that politicians here never seem to concern themselves with these problems . |
| 6 | Geography , as a subject , tends to concern itself with what is done , in what manner and where , especially when it looks at industry and resources . |
| 7 | As a sociolinguist Stubbs sees reading , for instance , as more than simply a mechanism for decoding written into spoken words : he prefers to concern himself with understanding meaning , pointing out that ‘ we do not normally read meaningless material ’ ( ibid. p. 15 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . " |
| 9 | In such circumstances agents do not have to concern themselves with whether an unexpectedly high price in period t is due to a relative or aggregate demand shock . |
| 10 | In 1987 , I did n't have to concern myself about Doomsday scenarios as I was staying in Manchester . |
| 11 | I shall not have to concern myself with the interview of [ W ] but I shall concern myself with the interviews of [ the co-accused ] . ’ |
| 12 | No if it 's the one thing I know that I do n't have to concern myself with as far as financial services is |
| 13 | A band does n't have to concern itself with filling in PRS forms at their gigs until they are working in these larger venues . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 16 | He disliked the way clubs were compelled to concern themselves with points at the cost of skill , the restrictions imposed on development of young players by the prime importance of the first team , and the premature blooding of young players in the first team . |
| 17 | Let us leave the last words with Walter Abish who declares that ‘ the innovative novel is , in essence , a novel of disfamiliarization , a novel that has ceased to concern itself with the mapping of the ‘ familiar ’ world ’ ( Martin 1983 : 238 ) . |
| 18 | The native Peruvian , expecting the state to do everything , no longer had to concern himself with his fellow man and had to come to his aid only if required by law … |
| 19 | And they had to concern themselves with the possibility of igniting even greater disturbances which could not be contained by the forces at hand . |
| 20 | This constituted an altogether more active management , which had to concern itself with professional matters . |
| 21 | Teachers in today 's schools and colleges have to concern themselves with a bewildering multiplicity of factors ; some of them were hinted at in preceding chapters and there are more that were ignored because they were not directly relevant to our theme . |
| 22 | It is clear at that stage the London committee envisaged funding its proposed activities by subscriptions , and that it intended to concern itself with the diseases of cows and sheep as well as horses . |