Example sentences of "that concentrate on " in BNC.

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1 This is a direct parallel with conservation programmes that concentrate on small peasant farmers and those marginal semi-proletariat which find themselves eking out a living charcoal-burning , cultivating the steepest slopes , or in shifting cultivation without sufficient fallow-periods — an issue which is explored in detail in Chapter 7 .
2 We must be prepared to understand the Evil One as the Dark Power — that which is evil — rather than elaborating ( new ) mythologies that concentrate on personalised demons and personified devils .
3 ( As we shall see , it is members of the conflict theory camp that concentrate on the structure of these material constraints on behaviour . )
4 Solutions that concentrate on groups , on the other hand , fail to take into account the real nature of employment systems .
5 By way of contrast , he writes disparagingly of the multinational company that concentrates on idiosyncratic consumer preferences , and gives two reasons why he believes such organisations will lose the long-term commercial battle .
6 A pocket size environmental business directory that concentrates on solid waste disposal water use in now available .
7 Unfortunately , this weighty tome does not go nearly far enough into this fascinating world of the interrelationships that ants have with the plants and other animals in their day-to-day business of running the world : Rather , we have a specialised symposium that concentrates on the largely negative aspects of viewing some of the world 's most fascinating species only as anthropogenic pests .
8 Seeking ideas is , therefore , a participative behaviour that concentrates on soliciting ideas from other people and does not include proffering one yourself ( see Idea-having on page 86 ) .
9 For the purposes of this book , the important point to grasp is that it is a way of studying social life that concentrates on the unwritten rules that make ordinary everyday social activity orderly , and tries to spell out these rules .
10 In contrast to the predominant tradition of writing that concentrates on teachers ' professionalism , Connell examines teachers ' labour as work .
11 There have also been considerable advances in ‘ variable rule ’ methodology , with the development of GOLDVARB ( Sankoff , 1986 ) , and the journal Language Variation and Change has been founded , with an editorial policy that concentrates on quantitative methods of linguistic analysis .
12 ‘ Oh yes , there 's eidesis that concentrates on form and proportion ; eidesis that acts mnemonically , producing near-instant recall through combinations of letters or numerals ; there s a kind of mathematical eidesis whereby equations and aspects of calculus are viewed spatially and of course there 's common-or-garden eidesis , which people call ‘ photographic memory ’ — ’
13 In accordance with the theme of this chapter , I shall simply use ‘ stylistics ’ as a convenient label ( hence the inverted commas ) for the branch of literary studies that concentrates on the linguistic form of texts , and I shall take four different examples of this kind of work as alternatives to the Prague School 's and Jakobson 's approach to the relationship between linguistics and literature .
14 Investment banking although this year it 's a very different difficult environment for investment banking particularly a house that concentrates on , on corporate finance er there has n't been a great deal of M and A activity and if , if there has it has n't been a very high erm very high ticket .
15 Cynical readers might be forgiven for thinking that concentrating on the minutiae of standards is a convenient way of avoiding the subject of how the industry is faring in a depressed market — but they would be wrong .
16 A weakness of this kind of presentation is that concentrating on how the shares in one part of the distribution compare ignores changes that might be taking place in other parts of the distribution .
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