Example sentences of "by concentrating [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By concentrating on the governments , banks and companies involved , and by assisting the tribal people , we can help to save the rainforests . |
| 2 | Wear can not therefore be simulated by just sand-blasting the whole object , nor even by concentrating on the vulnerable parts with a coarse file . |
| 3 | Although the allocation of time between the rival parties was fair , it was achieved by concentrating on the daily speech-making tours of the party leaders , and presenting timed extracts from their performances . |
| 4 | Regular testing , the annual publication of league tables and four-yearly scrutinies of schools by independent teams of inspectors will further increase the pressure on teachers to raise standards by concentrating on the basics . |
| 5 | Only by concentrating on the object can you both analyse it and celebrate it . |
| 6 | The tawny owl produces the most representative prey assemblage from its habitat , including rare species , but the barn owl preserves the original community equitability more closely by concentrating on the more common species at the expense of missing the rare species . |
| 7 | By concentrating on the Szekeres ( 1972 ) family of solutions , they have shown that these are quasiregular singularities in the classification scheme of Ellis and Schmidt ( 1977 ) in the cases of impulsive and sandwich waves . |
| 8 | By concentrating on the inclusion of a greater percentage of high-fibre vegetables , fruit and cereal foods in your diet you will be making less of those 1,000 calories available to your body . |
| 9 | By concentrating on the value and significance of their experience , the counsellor will generate not only an important historical and social insight , particularly if a physical record is kept , but will learn about the impact of the war on the individual , that is , from the only perspective that has relevance to the counsellor . |
| 10 | By concentrating on the practical implications of new ideas this book should help to promote positive strategies for welcoming nurses and health visitors back to practice at a time when their skills are needed and sought after as never before in the profession 's long and distinguished history . |
| 11 | Indeed , Bailey holds up for critical scrutiny the idea that schools can prepare young people for a world of rapid technological change by concentrating on the very technology which is subject to change ; rather , he suggests , the best basis for adaptability is a liberal education aimed at generating a wide understanding and the development of reason and autonomy . |
| 12 | His aim , he added , is to build SyQuest into a $1,000m-a-year company by concentrating on the removable disk sector , which he says is high-profit . |
| 13 | The solipsist , that is to say , can not get the practice started in the way in which he pretends , by concentrating on the nature of the original sensation and inventing a word to refer to this sensation and to others like it . |
| 14 | By concentrating on the way conversational contributions overlap , however , we may neglect aspects of conversational discourse associated with different speakers having different personal ‘ topics ’ . |
| 15 | It is a quality which is clearly necessary for communication and therefore for foreign language learning , but which can not be explained by concentrating on the internal grammar of sentences . |
| 16 | By concentrating on the international dimension of the UK 's crossroads we are saying that the structural changes are conditioned by the UK 's international position — — however we conceive it — and are at least partly determined by structural changes in the international economy . |
| 17 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 18 | He was , in my opinion , in error to exclude the possibility of holding an inquest by concentrating on the medical cause of death to the exclusion of all other evidence . |
| 19 | Well , you can probably go some of the way by concentrating on the humanity of the policemen you need to portray . |
| 20 | Most of these , as opposed to Hollywood films , go to immense trouble to get the details right , and by concentrating on the background rather than what 's going on you can get a fine haul , especially with the aid of a video . |
| 21 | The analysis can be simplified by concentrating on the d.c. and fundamental components of voltage and current . |
| 22 | By concentrating on the diffusion stage , which was perceived as the weak point of instrumental approaches , interactive approaches sought to ensure the spread of change by taking into account the way in which the social relationships affected the adoption of an initiative ( Slater , 1985 ) . |
| 23 | It is only by concentrating on the differential element that literary studies can maintain its specific object of study . |
| 24 | By concentrating on the signifying structures of literature , the structuralist approach sets aside all questions of content . |
| 25 | To date developers of handwriting recognisers have tended to concentrate on improving their recognition systems by concentrating on the pattern recognition level of the process . |
| 26 | Indeed , I believe that those who insist on scaremongering have done themselves and the NHS no good by concentrating on the privatisation scare . ’ |
| 27 | The project 's aim is to map the current position by concentrating on the perceptions of the major actors in the cereals policy community . |
| 28 | In addition to that , we 've increased the profile that we , we have by concentrating on the health and safety issues and it 's worthwhile me recording my appreciation of the efforts of Nigel in this direction because we 're running very closely in , in , in tandem to ensure that the G M B is elite union in the campaign to make the building industry a safer industry for our members to work in . |
| 29 | By concentrating on the return to the unit holder the problems of adjusting the net asset value of the fund for capital inflows and outflows may be avoided . |
| 30 | I shall begin by concentrating on the ego , which may be defined as an agency of the personality differentiated from the wholly unconscious id by its responsibilities for the control of voluntary movement . |