Example sentences of "[verb] their attention on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in the thirties , with the expansion of the commercial library ( Boots lending library , for example ) that Mills and Boon concentrated their attention on the production of romance fiction , published in cheap brown bindings . |
| 2 | Oil consumers , whether directly or indirectly concerned , concentrated their attention on the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf , through which flowed some 20 per cent of the oil supplies of the world outside the CPEs and which shifted into sharp focus as the war intensified . |
| 3 | Usually they concentrated their attention on the roof . |
| 4 | activities are signposted , and every new stage of a lesson is indicated so that learners can focus their attention on the task in hand |
| 5 | Liberal theories centre their attention on the almost free-floating power of the Commons , whereas liberal-democratic accounts by-pass the significance of the Commons in order to place a twin emphasis on the government ( the Cabinet and the Prime Minister ) and the people in special relationship each to the other . |
| 6 | The problem with environmental legislation of every kind is that , while we all applaud the intentions , we know automatically that the large-scale offenders have their own scientists , barristers , public-relations campaigns and representation in the House of Lords , that government inspectorates are hopelessly understaffed , and that consequently , at a local level , the enforcers concentrate their attention on the small fry who lack the time and resources to answer back . |
| 7 | Instead , they focus their attention on the negative behaviours they do not want . |
| 8 | In the United Kingdom , users and providers focus their attention on the spending departments in Whitehall . |
| 9 | Barth and Brunner moved on from that position and came to focus their attention on the re-working and re-stating of the main classical Christian doctrines , especially of christology , in which they believed the meaning and content of the revelation was explicated . |
| 10 | That explained why so many of the big-wave riders were focusing their attention on the outer reefs . |