Example sentences of "[noun sg] focus on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an urgent need for the NHS Review to focus on the development of training at all levels to ensure that properly qualified , trained staff are available to provide not only hospital care , but support and rehabilitative care for increased numbers of patients . |
| 2 | But perceptions that the Alliance was running second in the polls collapsed in the second week ; and voters ' assessment of Alliance chances of winning a majority or even holding the balance of power dropped sharply in the third week ; while television 's sharp switch to focus on the two-Party Labour versus Conservative battle occurred in the fourth week . |
| 3 | In its original nineteenth-century formulation , eugenic concern about the quality of the racial stock focused on the fertility behaviour of middle and upper class women . |
| 4 | These rather artificial bridges from one group of questions to another are useful for keeping the candidate 's mind focused on the right area of response and for helping the interviewer see his/her way through the prearranged structure of the interview . |
| 5 | The review focused on the legal nature of the transfer of the lease pools from IBM to the grantor trusts and the insulation of the trusts from a potential IBM bankruptcy , it said . |
| 6 | The labour force/retirement research focused on the 60–70 age-group , indeed sometimes drawing in those in their fifties , while the social research was more often concerned with those who were older and more dependent . |
| 7 | This programme focused on the construction of a better international order after the war , rather than attempting to elaborate detailed terms for an immediate negotiated settlement . |
| 8 | The study focused on the potentially collaborative act of deciding to transfer a patient from the ICU to an area of less intense care , and took place in a 17 bed ICU in a large American university hospital . |
| 9 | The proposed plan of action focuses on the way health and social services work together to provide services to those in need , particularly elderly people , including : |
| 10 | The Doctor of Business Administration focuses on the skills needed for senior levels of management , management consultancy , management development and education . |
| 11 | Accordingly , the study focuses on the cross-sectional properties of some key financial indicators that are constructed from accounting data . |
| 12 | This new study focuses on the transition period from ‘ pre-language ’ communication to fully-fledged language competence . |
| 13 | The study focuses on the 11-14 age group and the methods employed to investigate the processes of occupational choice include questionnaires to children and parents , and interviews with children . |
| 14 | The study focuses on the processes by which people try to understand information from various sources about |
| 15 | His research focuses on the social insects , especially bees as pollinators . |
| 16 | The research focuses on the idea that the time taken by people to identify objects can help to indicate the mental processes involved in object identification . |
| 17 | The research focuses on the interactions between the political system and the industrial relations system ; that is , the size of the public sector and the welfare state , the strength electorally of social democratic and left parties , and the participation in government of left parties are all taken into account in trying to explain strike activity . |
| 18 | This programme of research focuses on the survey interview itself . |
| 19 | The research focuses on the evident tension in health economics between the ‘ pure ’ and the ‘ applied ’ , the ‘ theoretical ’ and the ‘ practical ’ , and the ‘ correct ’ and the ‘ useful ’ . |
| 20 | During the model building process , the research focuses on the development of a number of typologies concerning home type , resident characteristics , and staff ‘ culture ’ , and draws upon both quantitative and qualitative material . |
| 21 | In tackling the serious problem of rural poverty , the Kenyan Government has advocated a Basic Needs approach to development and the research focuses on the ability of the schemes to improve standards of living for the rural poor . |
| 22 | This research focuses on the french perspective to the relationship between ‘ dyslexia ’ and underachievement in reading . |
| 23 | In particular , the research focuses on the value of cable television to local authorities — eg , as infrastructural investment , as an instrument of ‘ community building ’ . |
| 24 | This research focuses on the tensions in State-peasant relations as autonomous producer organisations have emerged and demanded respect for their political independence and solutions to basic demands . |
| 25 | Existing research focuses on the generation and implementation of information technology , on gender and technology and on industrial innovation . |
| 26 | This chapter focuses on the ways in which age discrimination is both a product of and manifested in the social security system . |
| 27 | Although this chapter focuses on the key features of Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) as described in the Act and DES Circular 7/88 , these four elements should be seen as part of a coherent government package designed explicitly to improve the quality of education by reinforcing the accountability and responsiveness of schools and their local education authorities ( LEAs ) . |
| 28 | The chapter focuses on the effect on this pattern of recent efforts to make the enterprises more ‘ commercially oriented ’ . |
| 29 | We see this in : ( 59 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars The article here has virtually no function except to commend the entity identified as one which the audience should be able to recognize , and recognition focuses on the property damaged . |
| 30 | The screenplay focuses on the incongruous and interdependent friendship between a dimwitted stud and a petty con man . |