Example sentences of "[prep] order to concentrate [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observers suggested that election of a Gorbachev ally would enable him to surrender completely the day-to-day running of the party in order to concentrate on the presidency . |
| 2 | The aims of these two movements , in so far as they touched on the rites of death , were sharply dissimilar : the Evangelicals aimed further to sanctify death as the gateway to immortality ; the Benthamites wished to demystify death in order to concentrate on the material means of increasing human happiness on earth . |
| 3 | This involves the exclusion of other areas of their lives in order to concentrate on the matter in hand . |
| 4 | I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . |
| 5 | She went home that night having had to bring all her professionalism to bear in order to concentrate on the job in hand . |