Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] concentrate on the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 So far , the explanation of corporate crime has concentrated on the specific long-term goal-orientated feature of corporations and the personnel who might become suited knights ambitiously pursuing the Holy Grail of profits , and who would , if necessary , be willing to initiate and execute crimes for the good of the corporation .
2 This chapter has concentrated on the challenges of bureau work .
3 Consequently most of the speech recognition research has concentrated on the pattern recognition level , and references to the use of higher level information of the language are mainly theoretical .
4 His research has concentrated on the nature of language and the apparent fact that it is a social instrument , socially constructed and thus dependent upon language of curriculum justification ( see , for example , his ‘ The revolutions in philosophy and philosophy of education ’ , 1982 ) .
5 Many previous studies of bone loss have concentrated on the representation of skeletal elements and their loss from bone samples derived from predator scats or pellets .
6 As they have settled down , the Committee has concentrated on the specific delivery of services within the system .
7 Most recent geographical research work has concentrated on the three related problems of declining public transport , centralization and reduction of rural services , and increased rural deprivation .
8 More recent work has concentrated on the impact of regional policy on investment in the areas .
9 Most of this work has concentrated on the historical period , using readily available sources of information , and looking in detail at particular localities .
10 Work has concentrated on the margin between hospital and community assessment and treatment with consultants making domiciliary visits , between NHS and local authority social services in particular , which is affected by the use of Joint Finance funds , and between primary ( especially general practitioner ) care and the hospital system .
11 Research on this question has concentrated on the possible role of REM sleep in facilitating adaptive processes , and in the consolidation of memories .
12 Debate about the European fossil hominid record has concentrated on the Late Pleistocene interface between Neanderthals and early modern humans in the period between 40,000 and 30,000 years ago ( 40–30 kyr ) .
13 Above all , attention has concentrated on the ways in which in the course of time they managed to transform their basis of subsistence , increase and concentrate populations and by making possible a finer subdivision of labour promote advances in technology which in turn generated further cycles of progressive change .
14 There are , of course , many more rasboras seen from time to time , and this article has concentrated on the more popular species commonly available .
15 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 .
16 Critics of the restoration have concentrated on the removal of the rust red coat of the Master of Ceremonies who addresses the married couple on the left .
17 Few studies of the nineteenth-century migration process have concentrated on the detailed longitudinal analysis of specific groups of migrants .
18 Recent exploration in the Malacca Strait has concentrated on the deep gas potential .
19 Criticism has concentrated on the removal of the red coat worn by the Master of Ceremonies , which was shown to have a different binding agent in its pigment to the rest of the canvas and therefore considered not to be part of Veronese 's composition .
20 Established methods of risk stratification have concentrated on the identification of patients with multivessel disease .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 This book has concentrated on the political and social values of Africa today , and traced their evolution over more than a century .
24 This book has concentrated on the selection of library materials rather than their acquisition — a subject which is fully treated in books by Chapman for the UK and Magrill for the United States .
25 This necessarily brief account has concentrated on the debate over the retirement condition between 1908 and 1948 , and the curious ‘ complicity ’ of the labour movement in demanding a measure that was to confirm the economic uselessness of old people .
26 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 ) .
27 In a report on Feb. 20 , the Soviet news agency Tass stated that Ryzhkov 's discussions with his Singaporean counterpart Lee Kuan Yew had concentrated on the future structure of bilateral relations .
28 Generally speaking , psychology has concentrated on the processes involved in dealing with verbal data as it arrives in the individual .
29 Treatment has concentrated on the removal of dirt accumulated over the centuries and conservation of areas of the bronze affected by acid rain and pigeon droppings .
30 The treatment tries to concentrate on the physical ideas and interactions involved , rather than on detailed mathematical analysis and computer results , which are available in the original sources as well as elsewhere in this book : most calculations lead to one or more of the so-called " universal " routes to chaos .
  Next page