Example sentences of "concentrate on the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Initially , therefore , it is necessary to concentrate on the primary substance or process of addiction because this may be life-threatening . |
| 2 | Less reliance on power bases is found in managers who have the tactical and interpersonal skills to concentrate on the essential objectives . |
| 3 | In the first section on interpersonal conflict we are going to concentrate on the mutual relationship of parents and children . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Peace with Russia enabled the German forces to concentrate on the western front before the troops arriving from the United States of America could be fully deployed , so in the spring of 1918 , a massive Germany attack was launched and their troops came within fifty miles of Paris before being halted . |
| 6 | The English East India Company held a substantial base in the East Indies at Bantam until 1682 , but very early in its history it decided to concentrate on the western Indian Ocean . |
| 7 | What we can do , however , is to concentrate on the commonest group of small animals ( in fact the commonest group of all animals ) , the insects , and study their life-cycles . |
| 8 | Maybe if she and Julie did n't have such tiring , exhausting jobs they might have more time to concentrate on the culinary arts . |
| 9 | And not for Descartes either , who expelled them in order to concentrate on the immediate mechanical causes of natural phenomena . |
| 10 | Dragging about her every shred of the detachment she had learned over the years , she forced herself to concentrate on the immediate future . |
| 11 | Trying to concentrate on the printed page |
| 12 | Would n't it be more appropriate for you to concentrate on the spiritual welfare of your people ? ’ |
| 13 | That will leave management free to concentrate on the existing businesses which are not having an easy time of it . |
| 14 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 15 | He is likely to concentrate on the 200 metres this year before moving up to 400 metres as a second-year senior boy next year . |
| 16 | Claudia was at last putting her unhappiness to one side and was ready to concentrate on the all-important show . |
| 17 | It rules out 85% of possible clashes and leaves the designer free to concentrate on the remaining 15% of cases . |
| 18 | To concentrate on the latter is not only superficial , it is also incorrect . |
| 19 | The regulation of British Gas followed the general principles laid down for BT two years earlier , so it will suffice to concentrate on the latter . |
| 20 | Because of time , I intend to concentrate on the European dimension . |
| 21 | With macari 's arrival on hold again , Frank Connor will take the players to Seamill tomorrow to concentrate on the European business in hand . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The fellow shrugged and Athelstan tried not to concentrate on the great yellowing ulcer on the right side of his face , the pus now suppurating , bubbling out , staining his -cheek . |
| 24 | His response is to impress upon them that the time is not now , that only God knows when it will be , and in the meantime they are to concentrate on the number-one task of world-wide witness for which the Holy Spirit would equip them ( Acts 1:8 ) . |
| 25 | All language is morally loaded ( one campaigner 's unborn child is another 's clump of cells ) but those who would trick the public by the term pre-embryo should be prepared to concentrate on the moral status of the early embryo , not on dreaming up a new vocabulary . |
| 26 | Studies of children 's comprehension of causal connectives have tended to concentrate on the empirical mode . |
| 27 | Although Conklin is absolutely right to concentrate on the economic dimension of corporate crime , for ultimately it is always about money , it does obscure the fact that in pursuing economic goals there are physical as well as economic impacts , and these are sufficiently important to demand inclusion in any conceptualization . |
| 28 | ‘ But we seemed to concentrate on the economic effects of the Industrial Revolution , and stuff like that . |
| 29 | These results leave the Commission free to concentrate on the real problem areas : |
| 30 | From this slimly positive sign she instantly gathered optimism , as it was her nature to do , and , forcing aside despair , proceeded to concentrate on the only course of action , she sensed , that could save her . |