Example sentences of "[vb past] focus on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stepping up to bat in the eighth inning of game five on Sunday with the scores tied 1-1 , the Giants first baseman had trouble controlling the adrenalin , ‘ but I took a deep breath and tried to focus on the point of release of the ball ’ . |
| 2 | The room reeled and she opened them again , tried to focus on the book , waited . |
| 3 | Spike 's one eye tried to focus on the movements occurring in front of him . |
| 4 | Finally , the graph search perspective helped to focus on the dynamic aspects of speech processing . |
| 5 | It came to focus on a headhunting approach to find this talent , not necessarily people who had gone to the right schools and universities . |
| 6 | In the post-war period , art history began to focus on the body . |
| 7 | As concern in Western countries began to focus on the treatment of Tuareg nomads in northern Mali and Niger , the governments of both countries denied reports of massacres or summary executions of " rebels " . |
| 8 | Independent bodies like Amnesty International began to focus on the conditions in which the Iraqi takeover of Kuwait was being conducted . |
| 9 | The region of interest later became focused on the period from the top of the backswing to shortly after the impact with the ball . |
| 10 | With current account performance playing the dominant role in determining the demand for and supply of currencies , attention became focused on the relative competitiveness of each country 's goods and services in international markets . |
| 11 | We decided to focus on the women with endometriosis as the principal diagnosis since this group would be least influenced by selection bias . |
| 12 | It is evident that the deputy head soon realised that he had set himself an enormous task , despite the fact that he decided to focus on the work of three ‘ target ’ pupils . |
| 13 | I decided to focus on the Matter . |
| 14 | I decided to focus on the Matter again ; the cooking facilities ; it looked like it would have to be a barby of some sort , with paper logs made out of Bible pages twisted up and tied into knots — not the lovely picture pages , they remind me too much of Ma and Pa 's bedroom — perhaps a few letters to the Corinthians ; nice and dry . |
| 15 | The film 's makers , the Central Office of Information decided to focus on an area of 24 square miles in north Oxfordshire and chose the broadcaster , John Arlott as narrator . |
| 16 | It needed to focus on the reform of male sexuality and the improvement of working-class morals . |
| 17 | A characteristic example exists at Irchester , where none of the three main roads thought to focus on the site has been conclusively located within the settlement ( fig. 40 ) . |
| 18 | The President managed to focus on the free hand Trent proffered . |
| 19 | A moment of clarity touched him , and his eyes flickered open , and managed to focus on the roof of the vehicle that sped him westwards , towards the hospital . |
| 20 | IAN WILLIAMS , A WELSH NURSE , WORKED FOR THE BRITISH RED CROSS IN KISMAYO , SOMALIA , IN THE SUMMER OF 1992 , A TIME WHEN THE WORLD 'S MEDIA CHOSE TO FOCUS ON THE CONTINUING CIVIL WAR IN THIS FAMINE-STRICKEN COUNTRY , HE SEES THE SUFFERING OF SOMALIA ROOTED IN CLAN DIVISIONS … |
| 21 | On the Alpha , DEC said that roll-out of Alpha-based systems continues on schedule but that because it is a major programme , it will continue to take several quarters to implement fully — and rather than talk numbers of machines or orders , the company chose to focus on the people writing for the thing , saying that more than 500 Alpha AXP applications from partners and 50 software products are available today . |
| 22 | Rather than asking children to describe what they did , he chose to focus on the time pupils took to record answers , using a keyboard . |
| 23 | For example , when Police intervention is requested , once on the scene , they often chose to focus on the woman 's immigration status thus negating the actual reason for them being called initially . |
| 24 | A public revenue approach to costing was to be adopted , which meant focusing on the cost of services received , and excluding the cost of housing , personal living expenses and informal care from the main calculations . |
| 25 | Blanche 's eyes had focused on a group of American youths at the bar sporting baseball caps . |
| 26 | Ted Forde , RRA chairperson , said the RRA would appeal and said most of the council debate was irrelevant to their concerns over the dump , as the debate had focused on the factory in Ovens . |
| 27 | Michael Connell QC , defending , had focused on the video nasty theme , saying ‘ This man is not completely to blame for his actions . |
| 28 | Much of the conversation had focused on the disastrous and pathetic effect upon the family of the civil unrest in Belfast and its function was plainly cathartic ; many recordings resembled therapy sessions more closely than sociolinguistic field tapes . |
| 29 | For a few moments her still-sleepy eyes refused to focus on the dramatic black handwriting . |
| 30 | In fact , most Western interest in the slim possibilities of reform in the East tended to focus on the academic and intellectual dissidents in Eastern Europe rather than either disgraced apparatchiks or those stubborn , principled ordinary people without contacts abroad who defied the system in anonymity just because they would not bend any further . |