Example sentences of "[noun pl] to concentrate on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt that Lord Atkin had been attempting to explain what was meant by a judicial decision but unfortunately his words had encouraged subsequent courts to concentrate on the form rather than the essence of the decision . |
| 2 | One of my preferred methods of listening to CDs is to put them on and then lie back with closed eyes to concentrate on the music . |
| 3 | Wilson saw she was being watched , closely studied , and dropped her eyes to concentrate on the jacket she was making for Pen . |
| 4 | The Council for the Protection of Rural England ( CPRE ) has urged water companies to concentrate on the stabilisation of water use by methods such as the introduction of meters and the stoppage of underground leaks , and to stop building reservoirs and sinking boreholes which it says , encourage a profligate use of water . |
| 5 | In that ninety seconds I want every one of the 13 million viewers to concentrate on the speaker — not on someone else scratching their nose in the background . |
| 6 | That back-up service would also allow our full-time officers to concentrate on the recruitment and servicing of our members , which must and must only be and remain our highest priority . |
| 7 | It may be this unusually close relationship between spoken and written forms which has led psycholinguists to concentrate on the processing of single grammatical sentences , with the tacit assumption that the sentence is an important processing unit . |