Example sentences of "concentrate [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does this because it shows how if we start from our own case alone , and concentrate entirely upon a conception of mental states which is independent of behaviour , we can not move from our conception of ourselves as subjects of experience to a conception of other subjects . |
| 2 | During most of the 1950s and 1960s UK governments as a whole concentrated predominantly upon the employment objective , with the balance of payments frequently exerting a cons-traint on the achievement of this goal . |
| 3 | As a result of this increased competition from sales promotional agencies , advertising agencies have tended , since the late 1970s , to concentrate more upon sales promotional activities , and have begun to offer sales promotion alongside advertising as an integrated promotional package . |
| 4 | This was a prevalent interpretation within the EEC , and one which was reinforced by the tone of the debate in the British House of Commons upon the Stockholm Convention , in which most speakers concentrated more upon the relationship with the EEC than upon the organisation and aims of EFTA . |
| 5 | The educational debate during the years immediately following the war concentrated more upon the nature of secondary schooling than it did upon the primary stage . |
| 6 | Although early progress in study of environmental perception often related to socioeconomic geography such as the attitudes of farmers to the drought hazard on the Great Plains ( Saarinen , 1966 ) , later research concentrated more upon the physical environment and the fascinating evaluation of myth and reality in the context of a volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea ( Blong , 1982 ) has already been referred to . |
| 7 | Whereas the SDPJ and the Japan Communist Party ( JCP ) attempted to turn the upper house election into a referendum , the LDP concentrated more upon economic issues . |
| 8 | A study of bibliographic classification could concentrate solely upon the major and some of the more minor bibliographic classification schemes used today . |
| 9 | A further characteristic of earlier physical geography had been the tendency to ignore the Holocene and to concentrate instead upon earlier phases of landscape development . |
| 10 | Moreover , Taking the Side of the Other relates to changes in the social context of public controversy , whereas attitude-change theorists have tended to concentrate primarily upon changes within the individual attitude-holder . |
| 11 | Marxist accounts of the growth of government do not concentrate specifically upon the issue of government growth , rather their discussions of increasing public spending are usually couched in terms of a more general explanation of the role of the state . |
| 12 | But this analysis concentrates unduly upon the intellectual content of nationalism , while neglecting its social sources , and it attributes to intellectuals an exaggerated importance as leaders of nationalist movements . |
| 13 | All these reasons serve to explain why this study concentrates mainly upon the attitudes to death that prevailed in the middle-class , whose irresistible rise was so prominent a feature of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | It concentrates particularly upon benefit in terms of deferment of long-term or short-term institutionalisation ( Was the project successful in sustaining at home people who without the enhanced care would have been in institutional care earlier ? ) . |
| 15 | It is no longer a one-to-one relationship in which the counsellor concentrates exclusively upon the feelings and needs of a single person , for other people must now be considered . |
| 16 | The exhibition and catalogue concentrate also upon certain problems , essentially of authorship and chronology , which have bedevilled understanding of the period 1500–1515 . |
| 17 | This may help to explain why in models of the historical determinants of trade union growth which concentrate solely upon economic variables up to 30 per cent of membership growth typically remains unexplained . |
| 18 | Until 1764 , Josiah had concentrated successfully upon the manufacture of what he called ‘ useful wares ’ , but he had carried out many experiments to improve the rather crude ‘ Egyptian black ’ wares already made by a number of Staffordshire potters . |
| 19 | There are some , as we shall see , and although language teaching and mainstream linguistics has traditionally concentrated only upon those formal features which operate within sentences , discourse analysis may suggest ways of directing teachers ' and students ' attention to formal features which operate across sentences as well . |
| 20 | It could be that the available studies have concentrated specifically upon women , and that men do give assistance which is less visible . |
| 21 | Choosing to overlook the actual blatancy of British power and concentrate instead upon its supposed attenuation , they produced the definitive celebration of the attempt to govern , not through the threat or application of physical force , but through the power of personal influence alone . |
| 22 | However , he says , if English is to be constituted as a truly cultural subject , it must abandon the pre-war approach of covering the ground " , and concentrate instead upon improving reading ability and training taste , which in turn requires a " discipline " . |
| 23 | Apart from a few lone voices ( see , for example , R. F. Kahn 's evidence to the Radcliffe Committee in 1958 ) , most economists tended to shunt the problem of inflation to the nether recesses of their minds , concentrating instead upon other , more pressing problems such as the difficulties of reconciling a high level of employment with balance of payments equilibrium . |