Example sentences of "[vb pp] concentrate on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a new applicant taking Yorkshire , with Granada strongly entrenched in Lancashire , and with ATV well placed to concentrate on the Midlands and give up its London weekend franchise , Rediffusion could reasonably assume that it would keep the London weekday contract and that ABC would move into the weekend slot vacated by ATV . |
| 2 | Certainly some would question whether , in the present academic climate , Catholic schools can realistically be expected to concentrate on the personal , social and spiritual development of their pupils . |
| 3 | Clive Thompson , chief executive of Rentokil , said the company was only a small player in the US timber preserving market and had decided to concentrate on the UK , European and Asian markets where Rentokil has large market shares . |
| 4 | Harold Burgess , finance director of the Post Office 's information technology division described the split from National Networks as ‘ very amicable ’ , but said that since National had decided to concentrate on the value-added market , the capacity resale business , together with existing customers , were passed over to TRT . |
| 5 | Jenkins had decided to concentrate on the bar and closed the rooms . |
| 6 | Further data was then collected concentrating on the major areas for concern . |
| 7 | Attention has hitherto tended to concentrate on the significance of the higher ranks , for both the Kent and South Wales coalfields show successive zones progressing to anthracite grade . |
| 8 | Studies of children 's comprehension of causal connectives have tended to concentrate on the empirical mode . |
| 9 | Some have tended to concentrate on the problem of men 's systematic violence towards women and on the power relations involved in contemporary forms of heterosexuality . |
| 10 | As the term ‘ socialisation ’ suggests this research has tended to concentrate on the macro-level , emphasising the influence of the social structure on the individual . |
| 11 | While western medicine has always tended to concentrate on the elimination of germs , the Unani doctors tried not to lose sight of the patient as a whole being ; they conceived of therapy in the original Greek sense of healing , at once taking into account physical , mental and spiritual well-being . |
| 12 | This is difficult , particularly as most studies of the effects of the plague have tended to concentrate on the fourteenth-century epidemics , the Black Death of 1348–49 and the further outbreaks of the next generation , rather than on the recurrent visitations of the fifteenth century ( see Framework ) . |
| 13 | Recent cases in this area have tended to concentrate on the aspect of duty rather than remoteness . |
| 14 | Motivated by practical considerations , analysis had tended to concentrate on the rate-equation limit of the above system ( and more complicated systems describing real lasers ) . |
| 15 | Recently government ministers and the media have tended to concentrate on the small minority of very young women who have had babies and who live on their own . |
| 16 | Leaving aside the question of whether these descriptions may be generalized beyond the British context , a problem with the approach is that writers have tended to concentrate on the ‘ outward and visible signs ’ , the more manifest differences in collective bargaining structure , unionization , pay determination , conflict and so on , without providing a more general framework within which these phenomena may be seen . |
| 17 | But there 's some awkward ones and they 've got to concentrate on the awkward ones so that you get this impression I ca n't spell anything . |
| 18 | Glenn Hoddle says that playing at Wembley can be like making your debut … the sight of the twin towers still gives you a buzz but they 've got to forget all about that and get on and win the game … it 's a wonderful place to play he says and the pitch should suit Swindon but they 've got to concentrate on the job in hand |
| 19 | I was asked to concentrate on the motion and the Bill and that is what I intend to do . |
| 20 | Because of the scale of the disaster , it was agreed that it was impossible to recreate so the decision was taken to concentrate on the rescue of a particular individual , Martin Baptie . |
| 21 | Another aspect which the two modes do appear to have in common is that in neither mode is the participant required to concentrate on the emotion itself ( another reason why Cemrel has got it wrong ) . |