Example sentences of "to concentrate on [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Target-oriented programmes tend to concentrate on a small number of permanent or semi-permanent methods ( sterilisation or IUD ) to minimise dropout rates . |
| 2 | In the first section on interpersonal conflict we are going to concentrate on the mutual relationship of parents and children . |
| 3 | What we can do , however , is to concentrate on the commonest group of small animals ( in fact the commonest group of all animals ) , the insects , and study their life-cycles . |
| 4 | Would n't it be more appropriate for you to concentrate on the spiritual welfare of your people ? ’ |
| 5 | It rules out 85% of possible clashes and leaves the designer free to concentrate on the remaining 15% of cases . |
| 6 | Recently government ministers and the media have tended to concentrate on the small minority of very young women who have had babies and who live on their own . |
| 7 | His response is to impress upon them that the time is not now , that only God knows when it will be , and in the meantime they are to concentrate on the number-one task of world-wide witness for which the Holy Spirit would equip them ( Acts 1:8 ) . |
| 8 | All language is morally loaded ( one campaigner 's unborn child is another 's clump of cells ) but those who would trick the public by the term pre-embryo should be prepared to concentrate on the moral status of the early embryo , not on dreaming up a new vocabulary . |
| 9 | ‘ But we seemed to concentrate on the economic effects of the Industrial Revolution , and stuff like that . |
| 10 | Although Conklin is absolutely right to concentrate on the economic dimension of corporate crime , for ultimately it is always about money , it does obscure the fact that in pursuing economic goals there are physical as well as economic impacts , and these are sufficiently important to demand inclusion in any conceptualization . |
| 11 | From this slimly positive sign she instantly gathered optimism , as it was her nature to do , and , forcing aside despair , proceeded to concentrate on the only course of action , she sensed , that could save her . |
| 12 | I intend to concentrate on the two subjects of today 's debate , education and employment . |
| 13 | It was half way through , and she could not understand a word of the dialogue and was surprised and rather indignant that she could not understand , for she had genuinely looked forward , with half of herself , to seeing a picture : as it was , she found herself obliged to concentrate on the other aspects of the affair . |
| 14 | Motivated by practical considerations , analysis had tended to concentrate on the rate-equation limit of the above system ( and more complicated systems describing real lasers ) . |
| 15 | The affair thus highlights the unreality of the common-law rule which continues to concentrate on the independent judgment of a police officer who is in fact simply obeying instructions which are issued as part of a general policy not necessarily susceptible of being influenced by the specific facts of particular cases . |
| 16 | This has meant that many studies tend to concentrate on the objective assessment of a fiscally quantifiable reality . |
| 17 | Therefore , some of the larger single roses become giant-sized once they are pressed , and can really only be used for big arrangements on walls , such as murals , so try to concentrate on the smaller varieties of rose , as you will still be astonished at their relative size once they are pressed . |
| 18 | Although in actual practice the Formalists tended to concentrate on the formal qualities of literature , this was because formal devices were taken to be the means whereby defamiliarization was realized . |
| 19 | An alternative and equally fruitful approach to the study of power in organizations is to concentrate on the formal structure of authority and look for correspondence between this and patterns of social relations within the type of society in which the organization is located . |
| 20 | if they can not show a high prevalence of HIV , they will not get the money they need to concentrate on the important job of prevention . |
| 21 | This leaves him free to concentrate on the creative side of cooking while maintaining effective management control . |