Example sentences of "concentrated on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting concentrated on the activities and progress of the three main working parties set up late last year to consider : rail privatisation ; the bus industry and financing of transport infrastructure . |
| 2 | Up to this point I have concentrated on the way in which non-verbal behaviour helps us , as Austin would say , ‘ to do things with words ’ . |
| 3 | Psychological models of speech recognition ( Cole & Jakimik 1980 , Marslen-Wilson 1975 ) at first concentrated on the way in which sentential context could speed up the process of word recognition in fluent speech . |
| 4 | Thinking regarded as internal manipulation of events and ideas does not necessarily depend on language , but if it is not entirely ego orientated , that is not concentrated on the relationship of the person to the scheme of things , then it usually invokes iconic representation . |
| 5 | Whilst public protest and scientific concern have concentrated on the dangers of the industry 's radioactive threat , and others have challenged the strategic arguments , the economics have remained the preserve of a few academic critics who have been prepared to tussle with the limited information available . |
| 6 | In the first half of this book we have concentrated on the discovery and history of Madeira , its social and economic development , together with a description of its topography . |
| 7 | Past studies of reading concentrated on the text and paid little attention to the reader who was engaged with it . |
| 8 | ‘ Thinking back , I must have blocked out all other stimuli , and just concentrated on the ball in the bowler 's hand . |
| 9 | Generally speaking , psychology has concentrated on the processes involved in dealing with verbal data as it arrives in the individual . |
| 10 | A notable feature of the greenstones which have played such a crucial role in the social life of the New Zealand Maori is that their sources were confined to the South Island , whereas due to the warmer climate and the requirements of important food plants , population was mainly concentrated on the North Island . |
| 11 | The initial effort concentrated on the applicability gap , where the working party recommended : ( i ) that there should be a programme of collaborative research between the IT research community and the other engineering communities supported by the Engineering Board , ( ii ) that the research projects should be jointly funded by ITAB and the Engineering Board , and , ( iii ) that funding should build up to a total of £10 million per annum over five years . |
| 12 | As already noticed , the debate on this issue seems to have been concentrated on the position of the person in custody , and successive editions of Archbold continued until as late as 1959 ( 34th ed. ) to express the inhibition against questioning in terms of such a person . |
| 13 | Despite the original aim of integrating operational and resource responsibilities , almost everyone in Whitehall confirms that in practice FNI has concentrated on the management of resources . |
| 14 | The next part of the meeting concentrated on the link between poor housing and ill health and a number of reports were commented upon as evidence of a clear link existing in this area . |
| 15 | At this point , it became apparent that the systems being considered had lower priorities than other current developments , and as a result , the proposed pilot studies for DIP systems were discontinued , and the analysts concentrated on the development of the index system only . |
| 16 | The growth of quangos fits in with the idea that the burden on ministers could be eased if government departments concentrated on the development of policy and ‘ hived off ’ large blocs of routine administration . |
| 17 | Widnes came back with a Devereux try in the 34th minute , but when Lee sent Reid over four minutes later Salford had a big enough lead to have relaxed and concentrated on the basics . |
| 18 | Although most of the debate surrounding the urban — rural shift has concentrated on the question of inadequate sites and premises in the cities , one allied development needing mention is the incubator thesis . |
| 19 | ( a ) The presumption Much of the early litigation about rent review clauses concentrated on the question whether limits were of the essence . |
| 20 | He might just get the benefit of the doubt — because his side were under such intense pressure in the last ten minutes at Elland Road that his mind was concentrated on the battle on the field . |
| 21 | The second , and complementary , part of the Intifada strategy concentrated on the construction of an indigenous national authority . |
| 22 | Established methods of risk stratification have concentrated on the identification of patients with multivessel disease . |
| 23 | Much of the foregoing has concentrated on the origins and physical plans of towns . |
| 24 | Peta and Isobel fell in love with the place as surely as we have and they , like us , concentrated on the commonplace . |
| 25 | They were concentrated on the Ministry of Equipment , Housing , Transport and the Sea which was ordered to lose F3,000 million from its 1991 budget ( including F1,000 million from the roads budget ) and F2,000 million from projects planned for 1992 ; and on the Ministry of Labour , Employment and Vocational Training , which was ordered to instigate cuts amounting to F2,500 million . |
| 26 | This chapter has concentrated on the challenges of bureau work . |
| 27 | Attention concentrated on the December London Fox contract , which rose by £21 a tonne to £753 . |
| 28 | It has concentrated on the proposals of educational writers concerning approaches to inside evaluation that schools and teachers might be encouraged to adopt . |
| 29 | A common fault experienced by most karatekas in the early stages of learning this stance is to allow the body to fall forward because not enough weight has been concentrated on the back leg . |
| 30 | His attention had been fiercely concentrated on the back of the girl as she had slowly walked away , his blue eyes narrowed in appreciation . |