Example sentences of "[adv] home in on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both convergent and divergent modes of thought are necessary for a creative act to occur : the writer must actually arrange his freely associated ideas into organised prose or the scientist finally home in on the solution to a problem . |
| 2 | And we always home in on the cost of a full page . |
| 3 | If the quality of bottom-up information was good , the algorithm could quickly home in on the correct sequence of words . |
| 4 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 5 | An example of a processing bias would be the use of a mental filter — characteristically homing in on the negative in a situation and leaving the positive out of account . |
| 6 | In retaliation the US Navy sent in A-7 attack aircraft launching stand-off Harm missiles which neatly homed in on the Libyan radar stations and destroyed them , killing over 70 Libyans . |