Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] concentrate on the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In executing this blocking movement , it is essential that all the weight be concentrated on the rear leg , allowing the defender to spring forward in a tiger stance , with his whole body weight behind him , if the warding and grabbing movement fails or is countered . |
| 2 | In 1947 waterways became part of the nationalised transport industry , investment being concentrated on the wider rivers and canals . |
| 3 | All his fear is concentrated on the ark which he , being too old and frail to accompany , delivered to their charge . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Closer still , and now the attention is concentrated on the boy who is making sand-pies … |
| 6 | The great majority live in Reykjavik or a couple of towns close to it , and that leaves the country wonderfully bare , especially in the centre — what remains of the population is concentrated on the coast , where the chief occupations of fishing and farming are best practised . |
| 7 | Although it appears to be generally true that erosion is concentrated on the more exposed portions of the coast , one occasionally finds examples of marked marine erosion in extremely sheltered positions . |
| 8 | Attention was concentrated on the situation developing around former CPSU general secretary and ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 9 | The name of Leith , Hull and Hamburg Steam Packet Co. was altered to Currie Line Ltd as business was concentrated on the Baltic Ports . |
| 10 | If policy were to concentrate on the ghetto poor — those socially segregated in inner cities whose manufacturing jobs have fled to the suburbs — it could be aimed at very few places . |
| 11 | The advice of the Government and the Audit Commission is to concentrate on the main risks , and if town halls persist in targeting women 's institutes , church fetes , village halls or charity teas , the Government will take action . |
| 12 | The object was to concentrate on the use of the tool as opposed to the user 's task . |
| 13 | The streets of Rethymnon 's old town are narrow and cobbled , filled with intriguing shops and much of everyday Cretan life is concentrated on the old harbour front and promenade here . |
| 14 | On the contrary , by trying to re-create on specific occasions particular events associated with Osiris thought was concentrated on the present rather than on the past . |
| 15 | The only other possibility was a large-scale uprising in the eastern area of the Province , while the Roman army was concentrated on the western frontier , but for this to be effective in diverting the Roman plans , timing was of vital importance . |
| 16 | Another form of fascination is to concentrate on the hypnotic spiral , which is a large disc bearing black lines which disappear to a single central point . |
| 17 | From this time onward the greater part of the effort is concentrated on the critical event that made the difference between a routine flight and a catastrophe . |
| 18 | The first unit to be completed was the 4.5in shell , the first of which was forged on Saturday 11 October 1941 , and with this unit in working order , effort was concentrated on the erection of the second unit , but on 24 January 1942 , owing to a change in policy , the manufacture of the 25-pdr shell was taken over by the States , and the second and third units were dismantled and prepared for despatch to America . |
| 19 | Implicitly dismissing fears of " peaceful evolution " ( capitalist infiltration ) , Jiang said that the important thing was to concentrate on the domestic situation . |
| 20 | Freud 's phases are first the oral , up to the age of about one-and-a-half years when all activity is concentrated on the mouth , on sucking , and on taking in to oneself . |
| 21 | Their tendency is to concentrate on the matters they understand and ignore those that they do n't . |
| 22 | Elsewhere time is also in the third person , and the field of utterance is concentrated on the Poet alone , his fears and hopes : experience has taught him ‘ That Time will come and take my love away ’ ( 64.12 ) . |
| 23 | Activity was concentrated on the low politics of the forthcoming election . |
| 24 | Chapters 1 and 2 have defined the meaning of high-bay warehouses and the types in current use , and while the whole purpose of this booklet is to concentrate on the fire risks of these storage areas , it must be appreciated that these buildings do not operate in isolation and that , according to their specific function , there will be ancillary accommodation to support the process either directly attached or in close proximity . |
| 25 | After June 1944 public interest was concentrated on the battlefront in France . |