Example sentences of "[noun] to concentrate on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt that Lord Atkin had been attempting to explain what was meant by a judicial decision but unfortunately his words had encouraged subsequent courts to concentrate on the form rather than the essence of the decision . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Buchan Meat chairman , Peter McKilligin , argued against change and urged the FASL board to concentrate on the scheme in existence . |
| 4 | Less reliance on power bases is found in managers who have the tactical and interpersonal skills to concentrate on the essential objectives . |
| 5 | It is important that we have this opportunity to concentrate on the Bill as it affects Scotland . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Wilson saw she was being watched , closely studied , and dropped her eyes to concentrate on the jacket she was making for Pen . |
| 9 | One of my preferred methods of listening to CDs is to put them on and then lie back with closed eyes to concentrate on the music . |
| 10 | There was increased pressure on organisations like the Workers ' Education Association to concentrate on the needs of the working class . |
| 11 | The Council for the Protection of Rural England ( CPRE ) has urged water companies to concentrate on the stabilisation of water use by methods such as the introduction of meters and the stoppage of underground leaks , and to stop building reservoirs and sinking boreholes which it says , encourage a profligate use of water . |
| 12 | He blames the current problems on a lack of clear leadership , leading to a policy dilemma : ‘ On the one hand there was the desire to concentrate on the museum 's own collections , and on the other there was the attempt to become part of the dynamic international art scene ’ . |
| 13 | This caution on the part of the Communists was due to their natural antipathy to the Liberal Party , their desire to concentrate on the campaign for affiliation to the Labour Party , and organizational conflicts with the People 's Front Propaganda Committee . |
| 14 | In this way , many possible locations can be eliminated immediately leaving more time for the planning group to concentrate on the details which will determine exactly which site is the best one . |
| 15 | In that ninety seconds I want every one of the 13 million viewers to concentrate on the speaker — not on someone else scratching their nose in the background . |
| 16 | That back-up service would also allow our full-time officers to concentrate on the recruitment and servicing of our members , which must and must only be and remain our highest priority . |
| 17 | When James VI came to manhood and attempted to assert himself over both the Borderers and the disruptive Highland clans , he tended for a while to concentrate on the Highlands rather than the Lowlands . |
| 18 | One to concentrate on his thoughts , the other to concentrate on the flight ahead that was alien to his being . |
| 19 | Returning to become a partner in his father 's business , he designed his first recorded work , Read Hall near Whalley , Lancashire , in 1818 at the age of twenty-one and quickly appears to have become the principal architect member of the firm , evidently leaving his father to concentrate on the production of marble chimney-pieces and funerary monuments , which were his speciality . |
| 20 | But it was confirmed that aides urged the media to concentrate on the royal couple 's four-day tour rather than speculating on their relationship . |
| 21 | But it was confirmed that aides urged the media to concentrate on the royal couple 's four-day tour of Korea rather than speculating on their relationship . |
| 22 | The main thrust of this passage , it must be said , was to instil a measure of resolve into jurors who , even if intellectually convinced , might shrink from the unwelcome duty of convicting on a capital charge , but the words emphasised above show that the judge ( who had earlier adverted to the burden of proof ) was also telling the jury to concentrate on the evidence . |
| 23 | Peace with Russia enabled the German forces to concentrate on the western front before the troops arriving from the United States of America could be fully deployed , so in the spring of 1918 , a massive Germany attack was launched and their troops came within fifty miles of Paris before being halted . |
| 24 | Reporters and Panels had taken care to concentrate on the actualities rather than technicalities . |
| 25 | Viewing tasks can usefully lead the viewer to concentrate on the learner for a change by setting observation tasks focussed on learner behaviour and learner reactions . |
| 26 | This is very much a product of his legal background which , in a career spanning 40 years as a lawyer , has seen him spurn a more lucrative profession to concentrate on the injusticesthat accompany bureaucracies like the Civil Service . |
| 27 | It may be this unusually close relationship between spoken and written forms which has led psycholinguists to concentrate on the processing of single grammatical sentences , with the tacit assumption that the sentence is an important processing unit . |
| 28 | The new company will handle the areas of agrochemicals , seeds , public health , pharmaceuticals , specialties , materials and industrial chemicals , leaving ICI Duperial to concentrate on the fields of films , polyethylene , wine chemicals , general chemicals and sporting ammunition . |
| 29 | The aims of these two movements , in so far as they touched on the rites of death , were sharply dissimilar : the Evangelicals aimed further to sanctify death as the gateway to immortality ; the Benthamites wished to demystify death in order to concentrate on the material means of increasing human happiness on earth . |
| 30 | And not for Descartes either , who expelled them in order to concentrate on the immediate mechanical causes of natural phenomena . |