Example sentences of "concentrate on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We concentrate on civil matters , even though in the criminal context there is the analogous feature of ‘ plea bargaining . ’ |
| 2 | But , in general , traditional psychological methods tend to exclude or devalue women and the features associated with them in discourses of femininity , and concentrate on male-identified features like activity , individuality and objectivity instead . |
| 3 | Other theories concentrate on technological changes or on firms ' investment in inventories to explain the cycles . |
| 4 | Many of the concepts explained may appear to be self-evident but their thorough understanding will assist the reader in later chapters which concentrate on international banks , markets and financial flows . |
| 5 | This led to a constructive discussion in which the employee volunteered to give up his supervisory role and instead concentrate on other activities at which he was better and actually preferred . |
| 6 | With practice this skill becomes instinctive and you do n't have to think about your sailing — you can just switch yourself to ‘ automatic pilot ’ and concentrate on other aspects of the race . |
| 7 | Your only course of action this April seems to be to avoid any further confrontations and concentrate on professional interests or projects specially designed to exploit your creative abilities , as very shortly after the full Moon in Libra on the 10th there should be a beneficial alteration in your work . |
| 8 | To the extent that we isolate and concentrate on phonic rules we seem to encourage only awareness of the surface features of written language . |
| 9 | I know as good as the next man what is hip but we decided to forget all that and just concentrate on good songs . |
| 10 | You concentrate on external events only . |
| 11 | To cover this range of possibilities we concentrate on four DEMs : a 10 7 K isothermal one resulting in the hardest spectrum ; a solar flare-like DEM taken from ref.21 ; the solar active region DEM of ref.22 , modified at the highest temperature to decrease to zero above 10 7 K ; and an isothermal DEM at 10 6 K resulting in a very soft spectrum . |
| 12 | More exactly , since these five writers differ not only from other New Critics but also among themselves , I shall for the sake of clarity and simplicity concentrate on two texts , Wimsatt 's The Verbal Icon and Brooks 's The Well-Wrought Urn , referring to the work of the others only insofar as it corroborates or develops what is said there . |
| 13 | Include five-minute intense relaxation spots during both morning and afternoon , where you concentrate on relaxing muscles , slowing your breathing down and calming your mind . |
| 14 | Some programs are subject specific i.e. concentrate on developing skills and concepts in one subject area such as geography . |
| 15 | Concentrate on indoor delights rather than outdoor fights and you 'll be much better appreciated . |
| 16 | Lest this become too amorphous an activity , managers concentrate on discrete parts of the job — on improving the flow of information , on establishing practicable schemes of staff development and on self-evaluation . |
| 17 | If you concentrate on punishing criminals , you 're still leaving most crimes unsolved , and it is prevention that people are concerned about . |
| 18 | Yes , I mean you put your finger on an important problem here that we need to discuss and that is that if you concentrate on human beings in general , and this is true on our own society but I , I think it 's true of just about all societies and it 's emphatically true of primal hunting adult societies then men do make a lot of parental investment do n't they ? |
| 19 | All of these guidelines tend to be narrative and concentrate on qualitative trends and areas of concern but with an accompanying outline of quantitative forecasts . |
| 20 | In this way it is different from the bulk colonial films which concentrate on white men 's adventures and dramas . |
| 21 | Many of the larger investment managers now concentrate on institutional funds or set very high minima of £1m or so for the private client portfolios they will take on . |
| 22 | And concentrate on those points that are in the advocacy criteria guide in making your preparations . |
| 23 | Try and concentrate on those parts of your body that do feel comfortable . |
| 24 | Concentrate on big issues and the broad outlines of projects . |
| 25 | The changing designs used on the coinage concentrate on warlike themes — military symbols , gods of war , figures of Victory — and especially symbols borrowed from the iconography of the conqueror par excellence , Alexander the Great . |
| 26 | [ 6,7 ] They naturally concentrate on older children who begin to use words but who need translators and guides so that their words and behaviour are understood by adults and so that the actions of well-intentioned doctors and nurses can be made less threatening to the child . |
| 27 | But I think the problem is that you you only concentrate on little bits at a time . |
| 28 | Having indicated such links , I shall not discuss each one , but concentrate on particular instances when the themes of savage and city come together . |
| 29 | Chapter 8 takes up another theme from chapter 6 : why managerial strategies concentrate on particular issues rather than others . |
| 30 | This clearly covers such a vast range of possibilities that it is best to break verbal behaviour down into a number of categories and concentrate on some specifics . |