Example sentences of "concentrate on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has meant that many studies tend to concentrate on the objective assessment of a fiscally quantifiable reality . |
| 2 | I do this simply to bracket off questions about how experiences relate to the world and thus to concentrate on the question of subjectivity . |
| 3 | Clive Thompson , chief executive of Rentokil , said the company was only a small player in the US timber preserving market and had decided to concentrate on the UK , European and Asian markets where Rentokil has large market shares . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 6 | The rumours also came on a day when B&C reshuffled top management , with chief executive Peter Goldie moved sideways to concentrate on the disposal programme . |
| 7 | Some MEPs want ultimately to take over from the council the main responsibility for passing EC laws , while others want to concentrate on the right to appoint the European Commission . |
| 8 | This is very much a product of his legal background which , in a career spanning 40 years as a lawyer , has seen him spurn a more lucrative profession to concentrate on the injusticesthat accompany bureaucracies like the Civil Service . |
| 9 | If policy were to concentrate on the ghetto poor — those socially segregated in inner cities whose manufacturing jobs have fled to the suburbs — it could be aimed at very few places . |
| 10 | With most car makers chasing after baby-boomers , Buick decided to concentrate on the generation of buyers longing for ‘ traditional American elegance ’ , a euphemism for cars that appeal to upper-middle-income buyers in their 50s and 60s . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Instead , the intention here is to concentrate on the coins themselves , showing their potential value as evidence for the past and , broadly speaking , how this evidence can be interpreted . |
| 13 | In that ninety seconds I want every one of the 13 million viewers to concentrate on the speaker — not on someone else scratching their nose in the background . |
| 14 | In fact , I decided to concentrate on the end of the overture , the ‘ allegro vivace ’ . |
| 15 | At first you seemed to concentrate on the later works , the Fourth Symphony onwards . |
| 16 | Wilson saw she was being watched , closely studied , and dropped her eyes to concentrate on the jacket she was making for Pen . |
| 17 | Whatever lingering nostalgia he might have felt , Delves chose to look ahead , to concentrate on the new business opportunities that Mr Akayev is keen to encourage in his ‘ little Switzerland ’ , most of which has only in recent months been opened up to foreigners . |
| 18 | That will leave management free to concentrate on the existing businesses which are not having an easy time of it . |
| 19 | Surridge retired from the first-class game in 1959 to concentrate on the family sports goods business . |
| 20 | The new company will handle the areas of agrochemicals , seeds , public health , pharmaceuticals , specialties , materials and industrial chemicals , leaving ICI Duperial to concentrate on the fields of films , polyethylene , wine chemicals , general chemicals and sporting ammunition . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Another aspect which the two modes do appear to have in common is that in neither mode is the participant required to concentrate on the emotion itself ( another reason why Cemrel has got it wrong ) . |
| 23 | Paddy Mayne was to concentrate on the road between Agheila and Bouerat , while B Squadron was to move to the west , raiding up as far as Tripoli . |
| 24 | If you feel you 'd like to concentrate on the accountancy , it 's worth knowing that the Open University reduces the number of credits needed for a BA degree for people with ‘ advanced standing ’ through certain professional qualifications . |
| 25 | Denise Wong , the artistic director of the company and director of the piece says , ‘ We wanted to look at mothers , but it is such a vast topic that we decided to concentrate on the mother and daughter relationship , and the concept of unconditional love . |
| 26 | The affair thus highlights the unreality of the common-law rule which continues to concentrate on the independent judgment of a police officer who is in fact simply obeying instructions which are issued as part of a general policy not necessarily susceptible of being influenced by the specific facts of particular cases . |
| 27 | Greek historians , for example Thucydides , tended to concentrate on the recent past , their object being to put in writing those significant actions which were remembered but had not yet been recorded . |
| 28 | Once you have agreed , even if the outcome is a compromise that falls short of your original expectations , the sensible thing is to try to stop worrying about what has occurred in the past and to concentrate on the years ahead . |
| 29 | A little unsteadily I wandered away to the library , but I found it difficult to concentrate on the uses of the Russian Imperfective . |
| 30 | After each separate exercise allow a minute or so for fuller relaxation to take place and for you to concentrate on the pleasant sensations that relaxation brings . |