Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] concentrate on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economic recession of the late 1970s has meant not only that government funds have become even more scarce for such policies but also that government and public concern has shifted away from issues of inequality to concentrate on the problems of productivity and economic growth . |
| 2 | Past studies of reading concentrated on the text and paid little attention to the reader who was engaged with it . |
| 3 | Feminist psychological studies of language concentrate on the effects of words with sex-typed associations ; on whether women and men understand , use and develop language as a whole very differently ; and on whether the language of an investigation affects the results . |
| 4 | The confident mood of the left in the 1960s had been part of a sudden wider upsurge in creativity concentrated on the arts , pop music , fashion , ‘ lifestyle ’ and sexual attitudes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And not for Descartes either , who expelled them in order to concentrate on the immediate mechanical causes of natural phenomena . |
| 7 | This involves the exclusion of other areas of their lives in order to concentrate on the matter in hand . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She went home that night having had to bring all her professionalism to bear in order to concentrate on the job in hand . |
| 11 | erm The effect is in fact to concentrate on the curling nose and the tufted beard at the expense of the wisdom and the artistic achievement . |