Example sentences of "concentrate upon the " in BNC.

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1 So too with the body clock : it might be that several outputs with different periods are possible and that we tend to concentrate upon the daily or circadian clock because this is the period that is most useful to the organism and which has naturally been accentuated by the environment with its 24-hour period .
2 calls upon the working class to concentrate upon the greater war at hand , namely , the class war .
3 He shut his eyes — the better to concentrate upon the cramped flexing of his muscles ; upon that monotonous , peristaltic thrust upwards as of some gross mutant baby ascending a vertical birth canal in defiance both of gravity and of sane obstetrics .
4 To achieve this effectively and on a large scale the teaching force would have to concentrate upon the narrow limits which had been set .
5 They were able to concentrate upon the task of becoming a teacher .
6 Although psychological explanations tend to concentrate upon the individual worker within the organisation , we can also examine the role of individuals as members of groups and note how the existence of different groups , both formal and informal , have an important role to play in developing our understanding of organisations .
7 One of the major criticisms that is made of senior management is its unwillingness to let go of the reins of an organisation , to delegate routine tasks and to concentrate upon the longer term .
8 This way the computer complexities will be removed , and personnel people will be able to concentrate upon the management issues of implementation , such as staff consultations , training , and requirements definition .
9 For this reason it seems best to concentrate upon the Mustakimzade tradition in order to be able to set the Katib Celebi tradition against the background of what is felt to be a more probable account of the origins of the Muftilik .
10 However , advisers in English , mathematics , science , etc. , without these roles to perform , were able to concentrate upon the provision of classroom support for teachers .
11 This appears to be reflected in the character of the Anglo-Norman fabliaux , which — small though their number is and therefore a rather unreliable basis for generalizations — tend to concentrate upon the adventures of knightly characters , and to develop the characters they contain in terms which , however facile , represent the aristocratic or courtly ethos : characters are frequently identified as " " bel " " , " fine " , for instance , and given " noble " motives for their actions , such as the lady of Un Chevalier , sa dame et un clerc , who , superficially at least , gives herself to the clerk as an act of pity , in order to avoid his dying of his " " maladie " " of love .
12 Although Marx highlighted the necessity of the proportionality between use-values in such exchanges in the passage just quoted from , in his own analysis he still concentrated upon the creation of value and surplus-value in his examination of the capitalist production process .
13 Initially Marks concentrated upon the design and construction of ‘ water balance ’ cliff railways and steep-incline tramways .
14 He concentrated upon the doctor 's neat , white shirt , his thin , anxious neck and his general air of having just surfaced from some particularly nasty branch of the Inland Revenue .
15 Because of this I shall concentrate upon the debate between them and in particular on the abstract theoretical aspects , only touching upon the practical policy implications .
16 Jackson will , instead , concentrate upon the international art fairs as his preferred market vehicle and is one of the British dealers travelling to Chicago for this month 's Art Chicago International .
17 I shall concentrate upon the claim that there is a fruitful analogy between the development of species through natural selection and the growth of knowledge .
18 The scientist taking a more generalist view should concentrate upon the structure and magnitude at all levels of magnitude , fit detail into the general framework and , by endeavouring to identify relationships , believe that some knowledge of connected complexity is preferable to an even more detailed specialized knowledge .
19 Managers should therefore concentrate upon the type and nature of information to be held , and how this information will be used in the process of managing the personnel function .
20 This conference will concentrate upon the ways in which teacher-research can be supported .
21 Second , Abelard concentrates upon the action of salvation .
22 At Marlborough ( 7 May-12 June ) , the selection concentrates upon the artist 's work after 1955 and features several important portfolios including ‘ A Bestiary ’ ( 1965–68 ) and ‘ The Bees ’ ( 1976 ) .
23 The so-called ‘ structural ’ approach adopted by these studies concentrates upon the organisational structure of unions rather than focusing upon the activities of their membership .
24 Previously shown at Washington 's Corcoran Gallery , where the tour was launched almost exactly forty years after his first one-person exhibition held at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1951 ; at the Menil Foundation in Houston and at Chicago 's Museum of Contemporary Art , ‘ Robert Rauschenberg : The Early 1950s ’ concentrates upon the artist 's activity between 1949 , when he enrolled at Black Mountain College after a short apprenticeship in Paris , and 1954 , when he embarked upon the most important series of works of his career , the combine paintings and constructions .
25 Much organisational theory concentrates upon the formal structure of organisations .
26 The first of the empirical studies concentrates upon the lives of ‘ ordinary ’ members of the Young Conservatives .
27 This chapter , therefore , mainly concentrates upon the theory of what should be done as opposed to what is done .
28 Within this context , the work of the first term concentrates upon the teacher 's role in helping the child to develop as reader .
29 The second term concentrates upon the child as writer .
30 When a fighter actually gets on to the mat , the self-doubts seem to vanish and the mind concentrates upon the job at hand .
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