I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
concentrate/focus on an aspect
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Accountants often concentrate on one aspect of accounting.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
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Police are not saying where they are concentrating their activities but people on Blackbird Leys have mixed views.
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Here is a clear example of a rare rock type that has been strongly concentrated by lunar geological activity .
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It is good for managers who can concentrate on their core activities , looking for the best deal for their customers.
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Chemical has traditionally concentrated its underwriting activity in New York and the eastern region.
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After that, although there was never an official split, all four decided to concentrate on solo activities .
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Louisa would move restlessly from one toy to another, apparently unable to concentrate on one activity .
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Beginners should concentrate on just one activity .
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The remaining chapters in this Section concentrate mainly on the activities of these Marketing specialists.
attention
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Unless there was some incident that diverted and concentrated the general attention , but I noticed nothing.
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Once at Sotherton, however, Crawford concentrates all his attention on Maria.
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Fred preferred not to reply, and concentrated his attention on the screen.
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Posterity undoubtedly concentrated its attention on St Augustine as a theologian, and on what he wrote about predestination.
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We shall concentrate attention on the sterling deposit contract.
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I tried to concentrate my attention on one face.
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This concentrates attention on the facts and away from personalities and feelings.
business
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The two soon concentrated their business at the Albion brewery.
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Because now you can really concentrate on their business .
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Few can afford to compete everywhere, and many have chosen to concentrate on those businesses and markets they know best.
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Care done right frees a working parent from worry and allows the parent to concentrate on business .
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This meant it could concentrate on two core businesses - security printing and heating and bathroom products.
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The justification will concentrate on business deliverables.
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That will leave management free to concentrate on the existing businesses which are not having an easy time of it.
chapter
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In Chapter 2 we concentrate on the changing nature of the public monument.
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The detailed cases described in chapters 7-9 concentrate heavily on the events that took place during that period.
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This chapter will concentrate on the circumstances and Chapter 8 on the consequences of departure.
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The first part of this chapter will concentrate on studies of relatively small groups.
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After providing a brief overview of the chronology of urban unrest during the 1980s, the chapter concentrates on two main themes.
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This chapter concentrates on these three national clearinghouses already established, and is based on a longer paper on the subject.
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Therefore this chapter will concentrate on the way photography has been used in representing commodity culture.
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For the sake of simplicity, this introductory chapter will concentrate upon one conflict theory: Marxism.
effort
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Or should they concentrate their efforts on looking after those sufferers who require nursing care in day hospitals or wards?
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He concentrated his efforts on the posterior aspect of the eye and established the ophthalmic exam.
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We then concentrated our efforts on the tail-rudder and elevators were in place by late Summer 1991.
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On the sidelines, Jody is concentrating her efforts on the officials.
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So Microsoft is now concentrating its efforts on a product customers do want to buy: Windows.
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Amelio has said Apple will concentrate development efforts on the Internet and multimedia, streamline operations and pare its unwieldy product lineup.
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Once you have control over the words you can concentrate all your efforts on their meaning.
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The government concentrated on efforts to stimulate economic growth and industrial investment and to enlarge the role of the private sector.
issue
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Some committees prefer to concentrate on broader issues of policy and administration.
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They allow browser programmers to ignore the complex networking code necessary to support every firewall protocol and concentrate on important client issues .
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The Addiction Research Centre's programme of work concentrates on issues of prevention and policy in relation to alcohol and tobacco.
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By relieving it of responsibility for details, Parliament was thereby able to concentrate on major issues of policy.
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Other reactions have concentrated on the issue of the interplay between inner-city decay and racial disadvantage in contemporary Britain.
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He has tried to discredit the legality of parliament's inquiry, largely by concentrating on minor technical issues .
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By contrast, this study concentrates on the issue of public understanding as it affects scientists in conservation organisations.
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Chapter 8 takes up another theme from chapter 6: why managerial strategies concentrate on particular issues rather than others.
mind
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He put Jane out of his mind and concentrated on the task ahead of him.
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She pushed her inner chaos to the back of her mind and tried to concentrate on the coming day.
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Once a beginner has got past the teething part of theory, his mind must be concentrated on the clubhead.
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But for now, he forced himself to put the problem out of his mind and concentrate on his son.
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His mind concentrated itself on Tolby's footsteps which were slightly uneven, as if the solicitor had a slight limp.
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Meanwhile, she got a grip on it with her mind , and concentrated .
power
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The thrust forward has more concentrated power than the withdrawal.
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The desire to concentrate power and resources.
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On the contrary, they are important to concentrate power such that changes might occur.
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All these new conditions will probably help to highly concentrate power in the State.
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These developments concentrated enormous power in the hands of the individual on the throne.
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Borland said Lotus's appeal was a bid to concentrate market power among a few dominant companies.
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Technology concentrates power at the top.
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Masterpieces of compression, they resonate with the concentrated power that can create diamonds from dross.
work
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So, instead, she concentrated on work .
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Heretofore, I had concentrated on doing good work in high-profile assignments.
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He went back to the prison hospital and concentrated on his work .
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Organization designs should concentrate on work .
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The library at St Edwards School, Oxford, and two sixth formers are finding it hard to concentrate on their work .
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Just concentrate on your work and leave the love business to me.
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All this begging for money was time-consuming and degrading so I decided to concentrate on finding work .
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I was in my law office when the trouble began, trying to force myself to concentrate on billable client work .
■ VERB
allow
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Once on the system, it saves time and allows me to concentrate on walking the crops, not filling in forms.
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The division was sold to allow the company to concentrate on its retail operations.
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Simple words make your meaning clear and allow the reader to concentrate on the message.
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That allows the pitcher to concentrate fully on the hitter.
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This has allowed us to concentrate on the problems of running an established business.
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Care done right frees a working parent from worry and allows the parent to concentrate on business.
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The system also allows parent firms to concentrate on more capital intensive processes.
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New Jersey had a balanced budget when Whitman took office, allowing her to concentrate solely on paying for the tax cuts.
decide
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All this begging for money was time-consuming and degrading so I decided to concentrate on finding work.
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After that, although there was never an official split, all four decided to concentrate on solo activities.
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New chairman David Mahony said it has been decided to concentrate on its electrical and electronic businesses.
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In the light of the various responses, the Board has decided to concentrate on specialist franchising.
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Then, in 1980, he decided to concentrate on his film career, and he has had his ups and downs.
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Jenkins had decided to concentrate on the bar and closed the rooms.
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It has decided to concentrate on laboratory services instead.
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Some good-condition coins were retrieved from one end of the heap, so we decided to concentrate in that area.
tend
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As a result senior executives tend to concentrate on operations rather than on policy and direction.
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In an expanding economy, growth tends to concentrate on industrial goods and services.
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Part-time farming tends to be concentrated in DRAs where small, often non-viable holdings predominate.
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Illegal workers tend to be concentrated in service industries, agriculture, garment manufacturing, and in urban construction.
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This is because short professionals tend to concentrate their firepower.
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Unfortunately, most bureaucracies tend to concentrate on small details, sacrificing the overall picture.
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However research efforts in the past have tended to concentrate on one or the other.
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The report also criticised the current boom in real-life crime re-enactments, which again tend to concentrate on the most violent crimes.
try
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She tried to concentrate on the screen, but she kept looking at him.
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He tried to concentrate on Marge.
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She lay watching his face as he tried to concentrate on the complexities of the novel.
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I shook my head and tried to concentrate on what I was doing.
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By trying to concentrate on what she thought of as the negative parts of his personality she would protect her own weakness.
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I was trying to concentrate on my rehabilitation and focus on good things.
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Wycliffe tried to concentrate on the Wheel and to ignore the veritable forest of giant rock pinnacles with which they were surrounded.
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She tried to concentrate on what Omar was saying.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I tried to read a few pages, but I found it hard to concentrate .
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Okay, I'll stop talking so you can concentrate .
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Sherman sat hunched forward and staring through the windshield, trying to concentrate on the traffic.
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There were so many people talking that I couldn't concentrate on the music.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About 600 people work on Unocal properties in the state, with most concentrated in the Central and Southern California areas.
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Founded in 1981, Softbank concentrated on two domestic markets: publishing and computer-software distribution.
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My general plan was now to concentrate all the force possible against the Confederate armies in the field.
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Plant roots in the peats and estuarine sediments concentrate uranium in cell walls, especially in regions associated with transpiration processes.
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The analysis can be simplified by concentrating on the d.c. and fundamental components of voltage and current.
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The study concentrated on physics, not biology, Adams emphasized.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As they had need, they drew aside to let ore wagons pass with their loads of concentrate and matte.
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The fields became parched and brown and the cattle required additional concentrate feed much as they had done the previous year.