Example sentences of "[noun sg] concentrate on " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you approach your selected wave concentrate on getting up as much speed as possible and unhook from your harness . |
| 2 | Writings of this kind concentrate on presenting a visual image or impression of a person , idea or event . |
| 3 | The three businesses comprise 60.9%-owned San Diego-based subsidiary GTI Corp , which makes magnetic components for the local area network market ; UK-based Zetex , a specialist analogue semiconductor manufacturer for the data storage market ; and Trend , which has now completely moved out of defence to concentrate on dedicated telecommunications test equipment . |
| 4 | Murphy , who was 39 last week , recently announced that he was making his original partner , Helen Cree , managing director , although he is staying as executive chairman to concentrate on growing the business , particularly in the financial sector , and improving quality . |
| 5 | I was a day-boy , I had permission to concentrate on music . |
| 6 | The economic recession of the late 1970s has meant not only that government funds have become even more scarce for such policies but also that government and public concern has shifted away from issues of inequality to concentrate on the problems of productivity and economic growth . |
| 7 | He needs to have time and freedom to concentrate on proper spending ! ) |
| 8 | It also recommends that excavations be coordinated at a national level , albeit at the same time as more powers are devolved to the regions , this decentralisation freeing the CSRS of its administrative and financial role and giving it the freedom to concentrate on scholarly matters , with — and this is a novelty — systematic recourse to the advice of outside experts . |
| 9 | The Buchan Meat chairman , Peter McKilligin , argued against change and urged the FASL board to concentrate on the scheme in existence . |
| 10 | The move follows the group 's decision to concentrate on its most profitable business , mineral water , which it says is expanding ‘ dramatically ’ throughout the world . |
| 11 | The company said end of year financial results — which recorded its first profitable quarter , thought to be around $1m on revenues of $45m — will give it the opportunity to concentrate on software . |
| 12 | It is important that we have this opportunity to concentrate on the Bill as it affects Scotland . |
| 13 | With that thought came relief , and with relief sufficient detachment for him to split his mind , to let one part concentrate on hearing the lines , and the other on performing . |
| 14 | Freed from the necessity to concentrate on the road , she could have admired the sweep of the rolling scenery of broad fields dotted with cattle , and tree-crowned hills . |
| 15 | I do not suggest that , just because Britain is less violent and less prone to crime than most other west European countries , that diminishes the necessity to concentrate on the picture at home , but let us not frighten people unnecessarily by comparisons with the rest of Europe and the United States . |
| 16 | Mitchell , who had turned down a place in Scotland 's team for the world cross-country trial to concentrate on his marathon commitments , clocked 2hr 21min 56 sec . |
| 17 | He also had the good judgement to concentrate on those cases in which his pea plants could be classified into one of two distinct classes , with no intermediates . |
| 18 | The auctioneers Phillips Son and Neale are winding up their activities on the Continent to concentrate on their London sales and the provincial English market . |
| 19 | On the industrial side , NCS wants the remainder of the DTI programme to concentrate on demonstrator projects , with the DTI being more active in its links with manufacturers . |
| 20 | as if to convince himself he had not imagined their encounter , he forced his mind to concentrate on what she had agreed to do . |
| 21 | KEEPER Ludek Miklosko has quit international football to concentrate on helping West Ham into the Premier League . |
| 22 | I plead with our commissioners and their counterparts in the Roman Catholic side to concentrate on this issue and not to dally for this I believe is the golden key to that greater , completer , richer and more effective church that is surely coming under God . |
| 23 | Stainrod , whose early-season thoughts tended towards quietly edging away from the playing side to concentrate on management matters , has since rediscovered his scoring touch . |
| 24 | Make the latter aware of your intention to concentrate on these tasks , if necessary , at the expense of other intrusions . |
| 25 | The Ministry of Education , now headed by rightwingers in the coalition , has indicated its intention to concentrate on formal sector education , marginalizing the literacy and popular adult education work which had been so important under the Sandinistas by starving them of funds . |
| 26 | It was their intention to concentrate on foreign students learning the English language for professional examinations . |
| 27 | A third suggestion is that the black and white stripes dazzle the lion when it gets very close to its prey and make it difficult for the killer to concentrate on its fast-moving victim . |
| 28 | As well , there is a strike force to concentrate on singles . |
| 29 | There was increased pressure on organisations like the Workers ' Education Association to concentrate on the needs of the working class . |
| 30 | Ten years later he quit as a parish priest to concentrate on his pro-life activities . |