Example sentences of "[pers pn] concentrate on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 2 | A creative use for a pair of extension microphones used for recording location sound in stereo is to position one of them to concentrate on the foreground sound , leaving the pick-up of more general background sound to the other microphone . |
| 3 | In addition , work which has been prepared on a word-processor and presented to teachers or assessors encourages them to concentrate on the content without being prejudiced by the presentation . |
| 4 | ‘ Mostly I concentrate on the aerobics and swimming , both of which are available at this club , which also has snooker tables . |
| 5 | I concentrated on the implications of Einstein 's General Theory , he said , and on the pathos of his later career . |
| 6 | Checking a positive climb and flicking up the quick-retracting gear I concentrated on the slow process of building speed , getting the flaps in at 130 and maintaining a gentle increase in height with steady acceleration to 170 knots , when the nose can be raised for 3,000 fpm to show on the VSI as she really starts to go . |
| 7 | He was a most able officer , and I was able to hand over this part of the work to him with confidence , while I concentrated on the current activities of the department . |
| 8 | So I closed the top of the copier and I took a blank piece of paper and again I concentrated on the idea of this woman 's surprise and then transfixion when she saw my memo until I was hard again . |
| 9 | But when I concentrated on the postage-stamp-sized photographs bearing his name that had started to appear , I could no longer be certain that he and The Fat Controller were one and the same . |
| 10 | I concentrated on the Matron . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’ |
| 12 | There is nothing you can do to change what has gone before and you will only cause yourself misery in the present if you concentrate on the gloomier aspects of the past . |
| 13 | A good interviewer will help you through the interview so that you concentrate on the areas she ? he needs to know about and do not ramble . |
| 14 | At the end of the exercise have a short period of conversation while you concentrate on the fingertips on your larynx and on feeling the right degree of voice volume , your friend keeping check for you on the right amount of voice volume and indicating if it becomes too loud or too quiet . |
| 15 | Here is the prop 's definitive advice : ‘ If you concentrate on the scrum and get your own put-in right without being shoved back and disrupted , everyone from the back row through to the threequarters can work off that . |
| 16 | When you get a prognosis like that , trivial matters disappear and you concentrate on the really important things in life — home , family and caring . |
| 17 | What 's going on all around you so then you concentrate on the ball again . |
| 18 | cos if you concentrate on the kerb you tend to drive a bit too close to it |
| 19 | and then you you oversimplify and then you refine it and you concentrate on the differences . |
| 20 | After each separate exercise allow a minute or so for fuller relaxation to take place and for you to concentrate on the pleasant sensations that relaxation brings . |
| 21 | Choose phones which have generously sized earmuffs as they will keep out the direct sound and allow you to concentrate on the audio signal itself . |
| 22 | I want you to concentrate on the way the rooms themselves bring about certain kinds of behaviour . |
| 23 | This will enable you to concentrate on the business of making profit and on the skills and attitudes of the people contributing to it . |
| 24 | Would n't it be more appropriate for you to concentrate on the spiritual welfare of your people ? ’ |
| 25 | She concentrated on the culinary . |
| 26 | We talked as we went along , but Jane 's conversation became increasingly vague and absent-minded as she concentrated on the work in hand . |
| 27 | Instead she concentrated on the completion , launch and shakedown of her new Mike Pockock-designed short-handed racing boat Q2 , a truly innovative yacht , custom-built and designed to win her class in the 1992 single-handed transatlantic race . |
| 28 | She concentrated on the face in her mind 's eye , the single eye that saw in the dark and coloured things in . |
| 29 | She concentrated on the interior doorhandles of the cab and changed their design several times , just for practice , then smoothed them out entirely . |
| 30 | She concentrated on the one with the trousers and said she was looking for George . |