Example sentences of "to concentrate on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the President promised to use his second term for a new " crusade " to secure peace and prosperity within the USA , he offered few new prescriptions for the ailing economy , preferring instead to concentrate on a broad agenda which included less government and lower taxes . |
| 2 | William , 10 , and eight-year-old Harry were given airline packs of colouring books and puzzles but chose to concentrate on a new computer game . |
| 3 | These functionally convenient but artificial demarcation lines have made the timetable easier to handle and have provided security for teachers who knew that for a single or double period their task was to concentrate on a specific subject . |
| 4 | I want you to concentrate on a specific area , so you want to retain control . |
| 5 | Target-oriented programmes tend to concentrate on a small number of permanent or semi-permanent methods ( sterilisation or IUD ) to minimise dropout rates . |
| 6 | It has never been more important to concentrate on a particular area where your business can obtain a pre-eminent position , and to understand the basis of that pre-eminence . |
| 7 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 8 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 9 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 10 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 11 | And manager Geoff Butler has told his Beazer Homes League men to concentrate on a secret catchword which , when shouted from the dug-out in the heat of the match , is designed to trigger their attention . |
| 12 | Because the neutral gas is strongly confined to the plane , in a first analysis it is convenient to concentrate on a thin slice around b =0° , where b is galactic latitude ; this two-dimensional slice through the data cube contains all available information about gas in the plane . |
| 13 | By now the tendency for manufacturers to concentrate on a single site was apparent , and many of the smaller mills , such as Inchbrook , fell into disuse . |
| 14 | In May 1977 the policy was amended , when it was decided to concentrate on a few tourist growth points in areas of rural depopulation where there was unrealized tourist potential . |
| 15 | By the mid-1950s his growing reputation enabled him to concentrate on a literary career . |
| 16 | ‘ He straightened one or two things out in my action , worked on my technique a bit , but the most important thing he taught me was to concentrate on every single delivery as if it were he most important in your life . |
| 17 | Initially , therefore , it is necessary to concentrate on the primary substance or process of addiction because this may be life-threatening . |
| 18 | In the first section on interpersonal conflict we are going to concentrate on the mutual relationship of parents and children . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Dragging about her every shred of the detachment she had learned over the years , she forced herself to concentrate on the immediate future . |
| 22 | Trying to concentrate on the printed page |
| 23 | Would n't it be more appropriate for you to concentrate on the spiritual welfare of your people ? ’ |
| 24 | Claudia was at last putting her unhappiness to one side and was ready to concentrate on the all-important show . |
| 25 | Because of time , I intend to concentrate on the European dimension . |
| 26 | With macari 's arrival on hold again , Frank Connor will take the players to Seamill tomorrow to concentrate on the European business in hand . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Studies of children 's comprehension of causal connectives have tended to concentrate on the empirical mode . |