Example sentences of "[modal v] focus on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , an assessment of a child 's command of phonology may focus on the child 's use of certain problematic contrasting phonemes , and it may only be necessary to transcribe phonemically those words in which particular contrasts normally occur . |
| 2 | Autofocus does have draw-backs though — when an animal is in foliage the camera may focus on the undergrowth and not the animal . |
| 3 | In fairly simple markets , agreements may focus on the price of a standardized product ( including agreement on exactly what constitutes a standard product , e.g. terms and conditions of sale ) , or on production quotas for the participating firms . |
| 4 | A more realistic approach to leadership may focus on the situation . |
| 5 | I plugged into a Zoom and everyone said , ‘ It 's just a reference guitar so let's focus on the drums . ’ |
| 6 | ( iv ) Discussion should focus on the effects , in context , of different types of vocabulary , eg archaic , literary , figurative , emotive , dialectal , colloquial , scientific etc. ; of grammatical features such as structural repetition , eg in scripted speeches , advertisements , literary prose , poems etc ; of lexical and grammatical ambiguity ; of the use of grammatical deviance for special effect , eg in advertisements , slogans , poems etc . |
| 7 | Dunleavy used the ideas of Castells to argue that local political analysis should not be concerned with particular communities , or specific institutions of local government , but instead should focus on the ‘ urban politics ’ of collective consumption — that is , with consumption organized on a non-commercial basis by state agencies . |
| 8 | The pragmatists thus argue that all knowledge is hypothetical and fallible ; that the meaning of concepts must be rooted in their social context ; that we should focus on the consequences rather than the origins of knowledge ; that all distinctions and boundaries to inquiry are relative to the stage of development of the inquiry ; and that the standards or norms of inquiry are developed as part of the process of inquiry . |
| 9 | First , with talk of deregulation , laissez-faire , greater competition etc , it seems appropriate that we should focus on the role of economic analysis , in particular , the way in which economics can be used to shape law and public policy . |
| 10 | The sociological implications of this view , that racism produces ethnic disadvantage , are that attention should focus on the history and mode of operation of racism rather than the ways in which ethnic minorities do or do not adapt to British society . |
| 11 | Such studies should focus on the workload in comparable practices — for example , practices in high and low deprivation areas with similar levels of commitment . |
| 12 | Action should focus on the training needs of all new recruits and continually developing and improving the skills of existing employees . |
| 13 | Despite an earlier suggestion from Jacques Delors , president of the European Commission , that the summit should focus on the originally scheduled topics of aid to the Soviet Union and the Gulf crisis , all the member countries except the UK used the meeting to state their agreement that Stage 2 of economic and monetary union ( EMU — see p. 36598 for three-stage Delors plan for EMU ) should start on Jan. 1 , 1994 , and established an effective negotiating brief for the intergovernmental conferences on political , economic and monetary union due to begin on Dec. 14 . |
| 14 | Induction activity at the outset of the module should focus on the PSD skills and behaviours to be developed in the module and introduce students to the learning , teaching , and assessment approaches which will be used . |
| 15 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 16 | In the second case the discussion should focus on the cost to the business , should this be £4,000 or £5,000 . |
| 17 | However , the implication is that intervention should focus on the prevention or early treatment of the disorder . |
| 18 | — if there is limited scope to do this in the pension scheme the spotlight should focus on the adequacy of the company 's keyman life cover . |
| 19 | To predict the fate of such a crop — and its prospects of proving weedy — research must focus on the plant 's most intimate dealings with its environment . |
| 20 | The debate must focus on the key issue of what good practice means in this school . |
| 21 | To spot the synergy you must focus on the manufacturing process , not the product . ’ |
| 22 | In order to lay bare the workings of the global system we must focus on the TNC . |
| 23 | So any explanation of why it started must focus on the collapse in investment . |
| 24 | We must focus on the profitable deployment of every aspect of that asset base . ’ |
| 25 | In this case your review might focus on the differences you had observed between the way the best and worst chairperson had undertaken the task . |
| 26 | The level at which this is pitched and the textual content naturally varies depending on the course and the contexts range widely : one day we might focus on the language of a rape victim in Panjabi ( which we roleplayed in Bedford Police Station ) , the next a simulated interview in Arabic on child abuse , and the next a Vietnamese patient explaining her persistent earache to the doctor , a symptom masking the deeper one , i.e. the trauma of being a refugee . |
| 27 | We ought to focus on the practical and urgent business problems we have of managing our growth and creating a business strategy that will unite us . ’ |
| 28 | And then last year Branson sold the music business to Thorn E M I for five hundred and sixty million pounds so he could focus on the airline , which was losing money . |
| 29 | Mr Brooke said Ledu would focus on the ‘ software ’ side of business by raising awareness of the importance of quality and market research , and improving export performance . |
| 30 | I would place a great deal of emphasis on my own impressions , the comments of people in authority and I would focus on the key personalities in the ‘ drama ’ . |