Example sentences of "to concentrate on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also recommends that excavations be coordinated at a national level , albeit at the same time as more powers are devolved to the regions , this decentralisation freeing the CSRS of its administrative and financial role and giving it the freedom to concentrate on scholarly matters , with — and this is a novelty — systematic recourse to the advice of outside experts . |
| 2 | Perhaps the key way to establish a connection between the concerns of conventional Marxist urban and regional sociology and the concepts outlined in Chapters 1 and 2 is to concentrate on typical forms of social mobility ; the ways in which they relate to spatial mobility and moral careers . |
| 3 | In its first rôle , it has tended to concentrate on low-technology businesses which are managed with a close eye on reducing costs and generating cash . |
| 4 | For this reason , the agreement concluded between the museum , the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs and the Union Française des Arts du Costume , expresses the desire of all parties to concentrate on thematic exhibitions , in order to avoid pressures from manufacturers and designers . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , most bureaucracies tend to concentrate on small details , sacrificing the overall picture . |
| 6 | Our interdisciplinary aims have always led [ us ] to concentrate on such links , but I think this is unusual in linguistics departments generally . |
| 7 | Aleksandr Shokhin was relieved of his post as Employment Minister on June 14 , in order to concentrate on new responsibilities for foreign economic relations . |
| 8 | In her present state of mind it was almost beyond her capabilities to concentrate on practical matters . |
| 9 | Comprehensive and complex formal procedures were being simplified to concentrate on key issues of control , and a step-by-step guide is being produced for headquarters managers and principals and governors of schools and colleges . |
| 10 | The AWCC preferred to concentrate on environmental issues and gentrification . |
| 11 | This began to change by the late seventies , as liberalisation in definitions of sexuality began to show in programmes which questioned less the right to homosexual existence , preferring to concentrate on specific topics . |
| 12 | After brushing thoroughly , it is important to concentrate on specific areas that get particularly dirty . |
| 13 | Erm been tending to concentrate on specific things which you know stand a good chance of being on the paper , and even if they 're not will help you with others . |
| 14 | I do not want to concentrate on procedural matters , but , as the hon. Gentleman said , it is curious that the Bill has not been introduced by the Government , especially as the Nurses , Midwives and Health Visitors Bill has just completed its Committee stage . |
| 15 | The text tends to concentrate on visual descriptions of the paintings along with discussions of iconography and patronage that are both very complete and pleasingly sober in their analysis . |
| 16 | This led the team to concentrate on two aspects . |
| 17 | I intend to concentrate on two issues in the Queen 's Speech — the commitment to continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Railways Board and the commitment to introduce a new council tax and to establish a review of local government structure in England . |
| 18 | From the start , the opposition negotiators decided to concentrate on two demands : that wages be indexed to the rise in prices and that increases in food prices be gradual . |
| 19 | Accordingly , we plan to concentrate on geomorphic processes . |
| 20 | The same tendency to concentrate on grapho-phonemic cues has , however , been demonstrated by other children who had not had predominantly phonic training . |
| 21 | There are still many people who think ( perhaps a better word is ‘ hope ’ ! ) that a gyro can do all the work of controlling the tail and thus leave the pilot free to concentrate on other things . |
| 22 | For observers who find the pace of the SCAN analysis too demanding , or who wish to concentrate on other things , the coarse observation kit uses checklists which the observer fills in at the end of each short teaching episode . |
| 23 | For the former it allowed the husband time to concentrate on other enterprises whilst in the case of the latter it reduced the work that had to be done by the husband on his return from his off-farm job . |
| 24 | The council said the courses would be no more than half a full GCSE course , allowing pupils to concentrate on other subjects they choose . |
| 25 | A programme to trade and dispose of these interests in order to concentrate on major projects and significant new opportunities has already commenced . |
| 26 | By relieving it of responsibility for details , Parliament was thereby able to concentrate on major issues of policy . |
| 27 | It was hard to concentrate on google-eyed creatures when musicians were animatedly sawing fiddles , caressing accordions , flailing guitars and blowing down flutes . |
| 28 | Cypress now plans to concentrate on static RAMs , programmable logic devices and its high-performance niche product lines . |
| 29 | Cypress now plans to concentrate on static RAMs , programmable logic devices and its high-performance niche product lines . |
| 30 | In addition , says Paul Bray , the makers are being forced to concentrate on ever-better specifications |