Example sentences of "[was/were] focus on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is after all what the first balletmasters did when professionals appeared on stage and were no longer surrounded by the court where all eyes were focused on the king ( see page 76 ) . |
| 2 | Behind his Oakley sunglasses his eyes were focused on the inner drama of his own existence . |
| 3 | It seemed that all her concentration and all the power of every muscle in her body were focused on the point where her fist struck the bull 's back . |
| 4 | The dogs , too , were focused on the water , poised on the edge of the bank , barking and snarling , or pacing back and forth between the men 's legs , whining with impatience . |
| 5 | They were focused on the stone table and Jack could see particles of dust swirling in the beams . |
| 6 | Eyes were focused on the new Pastoral Centre strategically placed based on Viewley Way into which an estimated 250 people were gathering . |
| 7 | The activities of Early Minoan priestesses were focused on the peak and cave sanctuaries and the sacred enclosures , but after 2000 BC they focused increasingly on the temples . |
| 8 | While Franco 's energies were focused on the military progress of the war , he devoted little attention to its political aspects . |
| 9 | The TV cameras were focused on the figure of the sixty-year old surgeon whose face had become known to millions over these last few days . |
| 10 | At a time when realist painters were focusing on the urban landscape , the routine and everyday , Minton 's decision to rework another artist 's evocation of a grand historical event seemed to his students puzzling and eccentric . |
| 11 | A specific interest of the almost entirely male chamber was to focus on the defendant . |
| 12 | One aspect of this was to focus on the experiences of particular groups : the poor , women and ethnic minorities . |
| 13 | Inchcape 's chief executive , Charles Mackay , said the strategy was to focus on the long-term development of its three core businesses : cars , marketing and services . |
| 14 | From Bismarck 's time onwards , ‘ national unity ’ in the new nation-state not only received exaggerated emphasis , but was focused on the rejection of internal enemies of the Reich ’ ( Catholics , socialists , ethnic minorities ) and , increasingly under Wilhelm II , was linked to varying notions of German expansionism . |
| 15 | Most of the attention , however , was focused on the nine days ahead of battling over the direction of economic reform in Russia and over a new constitution , several drafts of which have been prepared by different factions . |
| 16 | In June 1986 he unveiled a five year development programme for the occupied territories , proposing to spend $1,200 million , which depended upon funding from Jordan 's Western friends , particularly the United States and the European Community , and was focused on the development of the rural and commercial sectors , the two areas deemed least supportive of the PLO . |
| 17 | While there was a cultural aspect to this battle ( the Telagu people faced discrimination as a linguistic minority ) it is stressed that the struggle was focused on the conditions of an agricultural economy organised around a system of landlords and tenants . |
| 18 | In the absence of a full Test tour , public attention was focused on the World Cup but the Red Stripe Cup and the England A team tour , the first of its kind to the Caribbean , offered chances to those aspiring to replace the greats who have now gone into retirement . |
| 19 | The attention of people in Britain was focused on the area where Marlborough was campaigning , particularly because this was the area of the greatest military and financial commitment , but this was not the whole of the struggle . |
| 20 | In Washington attention was focused on the application of trusteeship to Korea . |
| 21 | His ears show that his full attention was focused on the photographer until the moment of exposure , when a noise on the left switched one ear in that direction . |
| 22 | As in Philadelphia the major effort of the Belfast research was focused on the community studies ; the main function of both the doorstep survey and the telephone survey was to provide a context within which to place the findings of those studies . |
| 23 | Mass picketing was focused on the Hadfields private steel works in Sheffield . |
| 24 | Public attention was focused on the force of nature as never before ; successful campaigns were launched to foot the vast bill for the clear-up operation . |
| 25 | She looked across the desk at Wycliffe as though for encouragement , but none came ; his expression remained bland ; she could not even be sure that he was looking at her or whether his gaze was focused on the window behind her . |
| 26 | A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Jan. 10 denied claims that the trials were timed to take place when world attention was focused on the Gulf crisis . |
| 27 | Particular criticism was focused on the US administration for failing to agree to a firm schedule of binding cuts in carbon emissions . |
| 28 | This year 's conference was focused on the far reaching issue of international debt , and thus was directly relevant for my involvement in CA 's Debt Working Group and the wider Debt Crisis Network that links interested UK NGOs . |
| 29 | By the end of February 1941 , however , Axis interest in the Spanish offer had subsided considerably : Hitler 's attention was focused on the Soviet Union ; Ribbentrop had instructed Stohrer to desist from his attempts to secure active Spanish participation ; and Mussolini had reached the conclusion that there was nothing to be gained by pressing Spain further . |
| 30 | This , however , was not what the Security Council had charged them to do and their attention was focused on the liberation of Kuwait . |