Example sentences of "[vb base] concentrate on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I intend to concentrate on provision for the 18 per cent unstatemented pupils who remain in mainstream schools but who , as Warnock reminded us , have special needs . |
| 2 | As a result senior executives tend to concentrate on operations rather than on policy and direction . |
| 3 | They tend to concentrate on policies that would help women follow the same age-related career path as men . |
| 4 | More importantly , Weberian approaches tend to concentrate on occupation and neglect wealth as a crucial element in the class structure . |
| 5 | Naturally those anthropologists who grant culture such imperative force tend to see social relations as the product of cultural patterning and conditioning , and thus tend to concentrate on child-rearing practices , enculturation , and socialization . |
| 6 | With every player in the Whaddon team a potential striker , we tend to concentrate on defence but are always ready to spot the half chance to score a breakaway goal . |
| 7 | However , the principal source of public information are the share quotes published in the press every day and these tend to concentrate on measures other than the holding period return described above . |
| 8 | She says : ‘ We tend to concentrate on weaknesses . |
| 9 | They tend to concentrate on manufacturers ' most popular brands |
| 10 | Write down exactly what you hope to do with your new horse and what your priorities are ; perhaps you want to hack and compete in Riding Club events , or maybe you want to concentrate on dressage or show jumping . |
| 11 | I shall say more of this a little later on , but for now I want to concentrate on aspects of privatisation . |
| 12 | ‘ Our best developed areas are those which deal with the elaboration of motor skills made possible by our hands , while cetaceans seem to concentrate on areas of social perception . |
| 13 | ‘ I aim to concentrate on youth , with one or two old heads . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , there is no shortage of energy in passes such as ‘ cum gladiis et frustibus exierunt ’ ( ‘ They went out with swords and clubs ’ ) in the former , and Christophers prefer to concentrate on Peter 's fear as he watches Christ being led away from afar , rather than anger at his betrayal in the latter . |
| 15 | I 'm a practical sort of person and perhaps I can refer to my area of work as the President said since nineteen eighty four I 've concentrated on health and safety and workplace legislation . |
| 16 | We 've concentrated on market share , we 've been exercising cost reductions and we 've been continuing with investment . |
| 17 | we 've concentrated on York and Greater York for the moment |
| 18 | I 've enjoyed it all and got some great memories , but I need to concentrate on family life now . ’ |
| 19 | I would simply say that if you want to know what happened in America after Pop and Minimalism , you have to concentrate on art made in unconventional places and with unconventional materials : out of the studio art , land-art , body-art and video . |
| 20 | The more time you have to concentrate on training , the quicker the results will be . |
| 21 | Recent WACC programmes have concentrated on communication and theology , the electronic church and the role of communication studies in theological education . |
| 22 | All eight have concentrated on golf and travelled from one tournament to the next since leaving college , while only two of them , Cathy Gerring and Nancy Lopez have got married along the way . |
| 23 | My knowledge of the fauna is patchy because most of the trapping methods capture only flying insects , and because I have concentrated on groups that I , or someone known to me , can identify . |
| 24 | Instead of providing discussions of theories and academic abstractions I have concentrated on animal behaviour patterns that can be seen and studied by any interested person . |
| 25 | Most theories of rhythm have concentrated on metre and metricality , and while it has long been recognised that the rhythms of the spoken language give variety to what occurs within a given metre , the functioning of these rhythms in poetry has never been adequately investigated . |
| 26 | I have concentrated on mortgage arrears and repossessions above , but it 's worth remembering that the HBAI report reminds us that the majority of people in the lowest 10% rely on rented accommodation . |
| 27 | In many cases the studies have concentrated on populations of a single species within 1 m² ; quadrats , though sometimes the reductionist level of study has been yet smaller — a scale of 1 cm² ; ( Thorhallsdottir , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Gwynne suggests that this aspect has been neglected by researchers , who have concentrated on street pedlars and garbage pickers rather than the small-scale manufacturing sector , which does have the potential for growth ( Gwynne 1985 ) . |
| 29 | Later studies have concentrated on comparisons with attitudes to oil development in Dorset and on reactions to Chernobyl . |
| 30 | Current activities have concentrated on data collection , with very little attention being paid to data analysis . |