Example sentences of "[noun sg] concentrate the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surprise decision to concentrate the main allied armoured thrust to the west of Kuwait was in part motivated by the desire to avoid having to make a frontal assault upon the extensive Iraqi fortifications on the Kuwaiti-Saudi Arabian border . |
| 2 | The ceasefire with Iran in September 1988 was taken as an opportunity to concentrate the military offensive on those living in Iraq Kurdistan . |
| 3 | The air above the debris of a fire is sucked through a tube containing an absorbent solid to concentrate the sample . |
| 4 | Littleborough is interesting as a weaving town which saw the beginning of the rise of cotton mills , but fell behind when the great boom concentrated the industry in the palatial brick mills of Manchester , Oldham , Rochdale , Bolton , et al . |
| 5 | SHORTER speeches by barristers — ‘ brevity concentrates the mind ’ . |
| 6 | As they draw near the necessity to publish proposals in the form of a manifesto concentrates the minds of Ministers and party leaders on the future . |
| 7 | The ancient teaching concentrates the best traditions of the peoples of the East , appealing to unity and peace among the people . |
| 8 | In fact this is not unlike the collapse of a span , " for a crack at one point concentrates the stress around that point accelerating the collapse . |
| 9 | As he needed a fairly high percentage of oxygen he soon had a head box too — a clear perspex box placed over his head to concentrate the oxygen . |
| 10 | Resolved , That this House , believing it is in Britain 's interests to continue to be at the heart of the European Community and able to shape its future and that of Europe as a whole , endorses the constructive negotiating approach adopted by Her Majesty 's Government in the Inter-Governmental Conferences on Economic and Monetary Union and on Political Union ; and urges them to work for an agreement at the forthcoming European Council at Maastricht which avoids the development of a federal Europe , enables this country to exert the greatest influence on the economic evolution of the Community while preserving the right of Parliament to decide at a future date whether to adopt a single currency , on issues of Community competence concentrates the development of action on those issues which can not be handled more effectively at national level and , in particular , avoids intrusive Community measures in social areas which are matters for national decision , devlops a European security policy compatible with NATO and co-operation in foreign policy which safeguards this country 's national interests , increases the accountability of the Commission , enhances the rule of law in the Community including improved implementation , enforcement and compliance with Community legislation , improves co-operation between European governments in the fight against drugs , terrorism and cross-border crime , and through these policies secures the long-term interests of the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | JOHN SMITH 's promise of a 59p in the pound tax rate concentrates the mind wonderfully . |
| 12 | That is a thought to concentrate the mind , too . |
| 13 | In effect , the theory of the second best says that if there must be a distortion , for example if the government has to raise some taxes , it is a mistake to concentrate the distortion in one market . |
| 14 | Equally the Tender concentrates the mind wonderfully in a way that a final offer by letter from the insurer can not . |
| 15 | The aims of St Bridget in founding her order concentrate the cultural significance of this increasingly high-profile female piety in the Middle Ages . |
| 16 | There is some indication that the Government would like to put this on to the back burner , in order to concentrate the minds of schools on reportable results and market performance . |
| 17 | As the pairs had a pattern to follow which was dictated by the components of their task — lexis , structure , discourse function — it was possible for me to stop the discussions from time to time to concentrate the attention of the whole group on specific issues like , for example , the meaningful teaching or certain lexis and grammar . |