Example sentences of "[adv] focus on the " in BNC.

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1 attention should not only focus on the workplace .
2 First , the notion of ‘ usability ’ leads us not only to focus on the eventual users of the information for whom , presumably , companies are investing significant amounts of money on more or less elaborate information-processing systems and structures .
3 United Kingdom bilateral aid is naturally focused on the Commonwealth in Africa , but Zaire is a major recipient of the African Development bank finance and fund resources .
4 Efforts at improving oral rehydration solutions have hitherto focused on the role of various substances in improving small bowel absorption .
5 In this area it is entirely focused on the specific question of improving police relations with Catholics , rather than community relations , although the latter is not absent altogether .
6 It will be the prelude to the first election entirely focused on the record of the Government — and its all-mighty leader .
7 Among the sometimes rather speculative theories about these movements of peoples one thing is certain : contrary to the facile generalizations of many historians whose interest is almost entirely focused on the Russian element in Siberia , this vast area of northern Asia was not an ‘ empty ’ land in the sixteenth century .
8 It 's not entirely focused on the appraisee , you know cos I think
9 The project is already underway and is apparently focused on the speed at which programs run .
10 The project is already under way and is apparently focused on the speed at which programs run .
11 And the re-concentration of growth , and the much smaller impact of decline , in the south since the mid-'70s has been very much focused on the previously less industrialized regions ( and parts of regions ) .
12 Coming from the other direction , the internal auditor is said by some to have the right background in systems of control by may be , at least initially , too much focused on the , albeit increasingly onerous , financial and computer issues .
13 As the playing grew faster , more complex , his gaze was drawn to her face again and saw how her eyes had almost closed , her whole being suddenly focused on the song , on the movement of her fingers against the strings .
14 Her eyes only focused on the sergeant a couple of seconds after he posed the question .
15 The trick is to create a garden of Eden , with shade and sun , fountains and flowers , a bar and barbecue , all focused on the pool , that you must cross before you get to the sand .
16 Furthermore , the strength of the bonds of workplace , residence and social life , all focused on the pit and the trade union , has made these closed communities very cohesive .
17 With attention constantly focussed on the hindquarter , it seems logical that the Beltex , with its double-muscled gigots , has buyer appeal .
18 The principles set out above focus on the treatment and rights of the individual but there are also principles which apply to systems of care .
19 Yet novels and plays that have characters who are aware or become aware of their fictional status generally focus on the relation of the characters to their author , as in Luigi Pirandello 's Six Characters in Search of an Author , Flann O'Brien 's At Swim-Two-Birds , Muriel Spark 's The Comforters , Robert Pinget 's Mahu , ou le matériau and countless other postmodernist texts .
20 The potential for disease biocontrol systems has largely focused on the soil .
21 Discussion of Shakespeare 's use of pronouns has been , so far , largely focused on the plays , in particular on the distinction within the second-person form between singular and plural , Thou and You .
22 It was these latter findings , plus the conclusions of the exploratory study given in Part A of this report , that persuaded me to attempt a more wide-ranging review of published literature than one that just focussed on the literature of environmental scanning .
23 Channel 4 's Right To Reply tonight focuses on the future of Eldorado .
24 It is not the purpose of this book to provide a history of coinage , however brief , but rather to focus on the methods by which coins are studied , for only when these methods are properly understood and applied can we realise the full potential of coins as an aid to interpreting the past .
25 We have already observed that it is more difficult to speechread unless there is enough space between you and the speaker — eyes can not possibly focus on the whole face if it is only six inches away .
26 Such an argument , in implying that the problem is simply a question of the lack of history or of its presence , as if history were some undifferentiated entity that could just be added or taken away , stepped into or got out of , skates over the fact that the real question has always focused on the much more difficult issue of what kind of history , and of what status can be accorded to historical thought .
27 The powerful contribution of Christian socialists in all the denominations of the Church has always focused on the moral purpose of political action .
28 They are probably more focused on the overall group position than any other executive director except the chief executive .
29 It was more and more focused on the internal biochemistry of the individual , as against the older and simpler individual/environment equation .
30 But I was more focused on the row of large sucker-mouths along its less armoured underside .
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