Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DHAs will be freed from the responsibility for operational management to enable them to concentrate on achieving the optimum improvement in the health of the population they serve . |
| 2 | The TECs ' chairmen are already warning that budget cuts are forcing them to concentrate on alleviating the worst excesses of the training shortage , rather than on instigating innovative schemes . |
| 3 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
| 4 | I insisted on taking the two till four in the morning watch , as I had read somewhere that this is the time when one is at one 's lowest ebb , and therefore when death is most likely to occur . |
| 5 | If you concentrate on maintaining the correct heading your feet will look after themselves . |
| 6 | NOW that the Queen has agreed to pay tax can we concentrate on scuttling the creaky old royal yacht , running the royal train into the buffers and grounding the Queen 's flight ? |
| 7 | On Sunday they insisted on attending the Protestant service in Flaxthorpe church . |
| 8 | An elevator trim that rotates in a different plane to nose up , nose down is a revolting arrangement and when , many years ago , the College of Air Training at Hamble ordered a considerable number of Apaches they insisted on having the trim wheels between the two front seats where they could work in a logical fashion . |
| 9 | The humanitarian side of the Enlightenment , the emphasis it laid on making the ordinary man happier through religious toleration , economic progress and education , always made a genuine appeal to him . |
| 10 | It concentrated on talking the public back to work by exaggerated claims of the numbers of people at work . |
| 11 | Bull differentiates its approach saying it concentrates on getting the best business productivity from information technology installations , rather than just scaling down bad jobs . |
| 12 | In particular it relies on estimating the final cost of the investment , the amount and timing of returns , the rate of return on the alternative investment ( the ‘ hurdle rate ’ ) and the rate of real deterioration of items of productive capital . |