Sentence examples for before concentrating on from inspiring English sources

Instead, this playful and likeable performer, who was born male but identified in the latter part of her adult life as transgender and "gender suspicious", carved out a career of idiosyncratic and often uncommercial character work before concentrating on promoting awareness of trans issues.

Under pressure, the French squadron broke apart with the British isolating and capturing three ships before concentrating on the main combat around the French flagship.

Before concentrating on selected vertices (statically or temporally important with at least one interval), and analyzing them in more detail, we briefly describe a temporal community detection mechanism that we employ in analysis.

Before concentrating on paintings, Hopper (1882-1967) made prints from 1913 to 1923.

She became a producer in 1988, working on the BBC2 comedy Red Dwarf before concentrating on drama.

He went on to a series of stunning wins in tournaments at St .Petersburg, Nürnberg, London, and Paris before concentrating on his education.

Douglas-Home, as before, concentrated on east-west and Commonwealth matters.

Although this is her first book, Gorokhova writes from the vantage point of a mature writer who has allowed many years to pass before concentrating her attention on the first two decades of her life.

As schools break up this week in Scotland and with less than a month to go before pupils in England and Wales are set free, more 16- and 17-year-olds than ever before are concentrating on curating their curricula vitae rather than chilling out.

The soulful singer used to be an occasional member of (still very promising) dubstep outfit AKS before fully concentrating on her solo career and recording her eponymous debut album.

"Is the landscape that now appears in Rikuzentakata," he writes, "not the result of the annihilation of our current era by an age before history?" Concentrating on the rudiments of city life, Hatakeyama is able to glimpse a fact so obvious that it's rarely mentioned: "There has never been a time in our history when the space about us was so fraught with artificial objects".