Example sentences of "[verb] more on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As Emporio spreads and grows , I will concentrate more on doing a few limited pieces for the special clients who buy my signature line , ’ he smiles , betraying a special fondness for those who grudge no expense for a new take on a shoulder-line , a fresh twist to this year 's lapel that simply can not be copied in a less fluid fabric at a lower price . |
| 2 | Mauve kept insisting that he should concentrate more on studies from plaster casts . |
| 3 | It must also ask whether we should concentrate more on actually reducing our demand for energy in the first place . |
| 4 | INCENTIVE schemes for farmers should concentrate more on green goals and less on red tape , the Government was told yesterday . |
| 5 | Marvellously played , the work might well yield more on a second hearing . |
| 6 | Second , the NHS would focus more on acute hospital care ; thus chronically sick patients , who lack media appeal and who have never been able to compete successfully for resources within the NHS , would have a substantial part of their budgets protected within the proposed community care grant . |
| 7 | ‘ We are working on a much more specific case study adverts in early 1994 that will build on the awareness of this campaign and will focus more on lead generation . ’ |
| 8 | The session ended with agreement on structural reform which would focus more on encouraging analysis and policy studies . |
| 9 | In 1981 Tony struck out on his own , repairing and making guitars in the North East , and since his move westward to Wales six years ago , he 's been free to concentrate more on building . |
| 10 | In view of the problems involved with breaking up large firms and the difficulties likely to be encountered in trying to control their behaviour , competition policy in the UK has tended to concentrate more on the preservation of a competitive market structure . |
| 11 | I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe . |
| 12 | He tended to concentrate more on various types of average noise levels and concluded that 20 per cent . |
| 13 | Insurance defence lawyers , however , tend to concentrate more on the legal process and procedure . |
| 14 | However , on her promotion last year as an executive consultant Laura had decided to concentrate more on her work in the office — analysing financial trends , and advising her private clients on their investments in the futures market . |
| 15 | But this has been a year when the English selectors , with the Olympics in mind , have encouraged Julie to concentrate more on her doubles play . |
| 16 | But this has been a year when the English selectors , with the Olympics in mind , have encouraged Julie to concentrate more on her doubles play . |
| 17 | ‘ This will allow us to concentrate more on developing the growth potential of our remaining newspapers operations . ’ |
| 18 | Sectors like computers are as sensitive to product cycles as to economic cycles , and investment in the medium term is likely to concentrate more on adapting than on building production capacity . |
| 19 | Both of us concentrated more on the machines , as opposed to the compositing ( type-setting ) . |
| 20 | Another concentrated more on non-intellectual factors — such as personality traits — which it was thought might distinguish the highly creative individual . |
| 21 | As Britain concentrated more on integrating the United States into a western defensive system , France began to see integration as a way of increasing its own influence within Europe , especially over the future of Germany . |
| 22 | Perhaps because it seems so obvious , the theorists did not bother to try to find out whether delinquents did in fact hold delinquent values , but concentrated more on explaining how these values came about . |
| 23 | The Werner Report of October 1970 mapped out a stage-by-stage plan to achieve economic and monetary union ( EMU ) by 1980 , although it concentrated more on monetary union and assumed that economic union would automatically follow . |
| 24 | In his private practice he had adults in psychoanalysis and some children too , though with children he now concentrated more on the ‘ therapeutic consultation ’ , where he found that a single interview could at times unhitch a developmental hold-up . |
| 25 | He clearly won a toe-to-toe scrap in which both boxers concentrated more on hitting each other than boxing , but it was good value . |
| 26 | He accepts that his input into the group is still the largest but believes the other members are contributing more on a growing basis . |
| 27 | It is often not appreciated how much of the stresses and assaults that impinge upon us are suppressed into the unconscious — an area which probably lies more on the spiritual plane than the mental one . |
| 28 | They differ from more traditional educational techniques which focussed more on theoretical and practical knowledge . |
| 29 | Centrophenoxine has a similar history as a tonic preparation for geriatrics , used more on the Continent than in England and America . |
| 30 | However , most modern studies on the police emphasize the variety of people attracted to the force and now focus more on styles of policing ( for example , see Black 1980 ; Broderick 1973 ; Brown 1981 ; Cain 1973 ; Muir 1977 ; Reiner 1978 , 1985 ; Shearing 1981 ; Walsh 1977 ; Wilson 1968 ) , although the idea that policing attracts people with distinct personality traits is still popular among some social psychologists ( see Colman 1983 ; Colman and Gorman 1982 ; cf. Waddington 1982 ) . |