Example sentences of "concentrate on the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And not for Descartes either , who expelled them in order to concentrate on the immediate mechanical causes of natural phenomena . |
| 2 | The fellow shrugged and Athelstan tried not to concentrate on the great yellowing ulcer on the right side of his face , the pus now suppurating , bubbling out , staining his -cheek . |
| 3 | They agreed to concentrate on the under-age international sides and to the inauguration of a development squad . |
| 4 | In our discussion of sociological explanations we will concentrate on the three major sociological perspectives and how they analyse and interpret crime — Functionalism , Interactionism and Marxism . |
| 5 | She shut her eyes and concentrated on the four last things listed by the catechism : death , judgment , heaven and hell . |
| 6 | Mungo concentrated on the first two rows . |
| 7 | We concentrated on the three largest groups of workers in the oil industry ( ‘ oil workers ’ ) in northern Scotland in the late 1970s : construction workers of the oil terminal at Sullom Voe ( Shetland ) ; construction workers of the Flotta oil terminal ( Orkney ) ; and offshore workers on rigs and platforms . |
| 8 | Kennedy concentrated on the deteriorating military situation . |
| 9 | Although this video naturally concentrates on the only supersonic passenger aircraft remaining in commercial service , it also contains some excellent and rarely-seen footage of the development of its Soviet competitor , the Tu–144 ‘ Concordski ’ . |
| 10 | The book concentrates on the good old days of airliners , flying Dakotas over the Himalayas , rope starting the Dak when all else had failed , Avro Yorks on the Rangoon-Singapore route , an undercarriage collapse on an Ambassador at Southend , transporting horses in a Bristol Freighter ( known to all as the Frightener ) , and tales like these fill the pages taking the reader back to the days when flying was still an adventure . |
| 11 | This chapter concentrates on the latter two , i.e. fixed capital investment and inventory investment . |
| 12 | The inaugural exhibition concentrates on the last six years of the artist 's life . |
| 13 | Given such a broad international consensus , shared by the more accommodationist Israeli and Western liberals , it is hardly surprising that since 1974 the PLO has played down the refugee issue , and concentrated on the only acceptable diplomacy concerning a territorial return to the 1949 Armistice Line . |
| 14 | Congressional criticism of Bush 's proposals concentrated on the limited additional funding provided ; Democrats proposed an alternative plan , calling for total spending of $10,100 million , the additional $2,200 million to be provided by across-the-board reductions in federal programmes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They have concentrated on the newly-formed mass organizations — soviets , soldiers ' committees , trade unions , factory committees , peasant committees , Red Guards . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The force of the District 's argument lay in the clarification and negotiation of future arrangements which would not be dependent on exceptional agreements within the rural areas scheme in the other counties in the region and in subsequent discussion the WEA representatives concentrated on the three main proposals in Green 's memorandum of July 1938 . |
| 20 | MUCH of the advance publicity that surrounded Hook , Steven Spielberg 's adaptation of J. M. Barrie 's Peter Pan story , concentrated on the ageing directorial wunderkind 's affinity for the subject of a boy who never grows up . |
| 21 | The first half of the programme concentrated on the main parliamentary news of the week , with an above average emphasis on interviews with front-benchers . |
| 22 | Few studies of the nineteenth-century migration process have concentrated on the detailed longitudinal analysis of specific groups of migrants . |
| 23 | Malpass shook his head but still concentrated on the faded yellow door . |
| 24 | Growth from 1851 to 1911 was concentrated on the few urban industrial regions in which an increasing proportion of the population lived ; these experienced both net immigration and natural increase . |
| 25 | The marketing agents , Telemundi , have found themselves with the unenviable task of selling an event that has yet to capture the imagination of public and sponsors in a soccer-mad-country at a time when all media resources are concentrated on the approaching Olympic Games . |
| 26 | In the Eastern and Central provinces , revision mapping which had originally concentrated on the Proterozoic metamorphic rocks of the 'Mozambique Belt' has now been extended to include Mount Kenya , Africa 's second highest mountain . |
| 27 | We concentrate on the famous multiplier-accelerator theory , so this is a good point at which to review your understanding of the multiplier process ( Ch. 18 ) and the accelerator principle ( Ch. 19 ) . |
| 28 | Beginners concentrate on the basic four : the front kick , the side kick , the back kick and , perhaps the most powerful of all , the roundhouse kick . |
| 29 | One reason for the Groningen 's demise was the government 's policy of concentrating on the major pied breeds and closing the herdbooks of minors such as the Groningen , Lakenvelder and Witrik so that they were unable to give evidence of registered purebred bulls when new bull licensing laws came into force 20 years later — a move which has had devastating effects on minor breeds in other countries where similar laws were introduced . |
| 30 | Concentrating on the working poor with children has obvious political charms . |