Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] concentrate [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies like Toyota , Nissan , Sony , Hitachi , Honda or Matsushita concentrate on narrower product ranges but their operations involve an extensive array of horizontal and vertical relationships with affiliated firms . |
| 2 | Although WIRS concentrated on issues such as collective bargaining , wage determination and grievance resolution , it did ask whether the establishment concerned made use of staff employed on fixed-term contracts and agency workers . |
| 3 | He needs to have time and freedom to concentrate on proper spending ! ) |
| 4 | Several bases would be closed , and units concentrated in Buenos Aires would be redeployed to the provinces . |
| 5 | Whilst the cathedral and precincts occupied the southwestern ‘ quadrant ’ , the trades and craftsmen concentrated in the eastern half of the town . |
| 6 | The seminars for Romanian lawyers given in Iasi and Bucharest concentrated on the structure of a legal profession and practical aspects of management of a law practice . |
| 7 | The talks between Israel and Syria concentrated on the status of the Golan Heights and were believed to have taken place in an atmosphere of tension and hostility . |
| 8 | When , through a second marriage , Hopkins became a kinsman of one Vickares , a wool-draper , Hopkins took over the broadcloth trade , and Stratford concentrated on the flax trade , in partnership with three others , Ralph , his brother , Thomas Lane , married to a third daughter of Robinson , and Humphrey Thornbury . |
| 9 | There are 550 traditional off-licences carrying the basic Thresher range and 450 ‘ wine shops ’ moving away from cigarettes and brands to concentrate on wine . |
| 10 | A further way of reducing the spread of sampling is to use what is called cluster sampling , a device by which sub-units are grouped together and work concentrated on them . |
| 11 | Now because of this initial asymmetry between the sexes and the size of the sex cells , the tendency is for females to concentrate on parental investment and males to concentrate on mating success . |
| 12 | The long-term trends in population redistribution during the latter half of the twentieth century have broadly been serving to undo the principal features of population change in the nineteenth century when the North 's share of national population increased and people concentrated into the major urban and industrial agglomerations . |
| 13 | In Europe and America , admirers and imitators concentrated on Cotswold craft . |
| 14 | There would be every justification to grant-aid this type of work , leaving developers and speculators to concentrate on additional building when they see that they can utilise the facilities throughout the year . |
| 15 | More exactly , since these five writers differ not only from other New Critics but also among themselves , I shall for the sake of clarity and simplicity concentrate on two texts , Wimsatt 's The Verbal Icon and Brooks 's The Well-Wrought Urn , referring to the work of the others only insofar as it corroborates or develops what is said there . |
| 16 | if teachers concentrate on pupils ' competence in written Standard English , pupils will gain sufficient knowledge of Standard English to be able to convert this into competence in spoken Standard English when appropriate . |
| 17 | With the adrenalin in full flow , both East and West concentrated on four further days ‘ curling at various venues in Toronto , at the end of which we were thrilled to emerge as the first Scottish team to win in Canada since 1949 . |
| 18 | Many diesel depots ceased to carry out maintenance for the Railfreight sector , with some facing the axe such as Gateshead and others concentrating on work for other sectors such as Bristol Bath Road . |
| 19 | Opinion-influencing analysts and commentators concentrate on the potential dilution in earnings per share . |
| 20 | VISTA made science more girl friendly in two ways : both boys and girls were offered an attractive image of a competent woman scientist , and talks concentrated on social and industrial applications of science , an element too often missing from science at school . |
| 21 | The party set off downstream along the river bank and Rostov concentrated on making it look as if he had been riding bareback all his life . |
| 22 | The company said the major impact was on the UK brick company ‘ where a number of less effective manufacturing facilities are to be closed and production concentrated on the low-cost , high-quality plants ’ . |
| 23 | But Yorath concentrated on Saunders ' form for Aston Villa , saying : ‘ I always felt he got unjust criticism at Liverpool . |
| 24 | Many came from within North America itself , but others concentrated from as far afield as South Africa , Australia and China . |
| 25 | Some of the least effective managers are those seeking autonomy , creativity and growth — all of which are highly individualistic goals whereas management concentrates on collective goals . |
| 26 | While CND concentrated on the aim of British nuclear disarmament , the American Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy — Sane for short — campaigned for general disarmament . |
| 27 | Erm the reason why parental investment theory is is particularly sensitive to , to the female point of view of course is as we 've seen one of the fundamental consequence of anisogamy is the fact that females normally invest more in offspring than do males , whereas males concentrate on mating success normally , females normally concentrate on erm parental , in individual offspring . |
| 28 | Claudia reluctantly took her place while Myra concentrated on last-minute adjustments . |
| 29 | His bent was technical , while Malling concentrated on the politics . |
| 30 | Some are very much involved in field archaeology and publications , while others concentrate on organizing excursions to sites and museums for their members , and most provide an annual programme of lectures . |