Example sentences of "focus [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family planning and health programmes should focus upon such women to gain their acceptance of family planning and their understanding of its benefits for themselves and their children . |
| 2 | And they will focus upon three topics : |
| 3 | In short , rather than worrying about " eternal " propositions we should focus on implicit-versus-explicit truth-claims . |
| 4 | Mr Mellor dismissed the suggestion that self-governing hospitals would focus on acute specialities , to the detriment of the chronically ill . |
| 5 | However , the Commission may focus on regional markets and even on local markets , where these are the relevant geographical markets . |
| 6 | It will focus on specific issues of strategic significance to pharmaceutical companies which also have public interest implications prompting the involvement of government . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State 's interventions would be kept to a minimum and would usually focus on strategic issues . |
| 8 | The new thinking in Brussels is that labour laws should focus on general objectives and leave details to national governments . |
| 9 | The programme is divided into three phases : in 1992-94 , it will focus on developing substitutes for chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) ; in 1995-97 , it will concentrate on cleaning up sewage and industrial waste water , and cleaning up sulphur emissions from power stations ; in the final phase , 1998-2001 , waste incineration and cutbacks on carbon dioxide emissions have priority . |
| 10 | Thereafter everyone will focus on practical aspects of dealing with an existing problem . |
| 11 | It is understood the investigation will focus on alleged breaches of education and race relations laws in the region 's assessment of children who are believed to have learning difficulties and whose first language is not English . |
| 12 | It is understood the investigation will focus on alleged breaches of education and race relations laws in the region 's assessment of children who are believed to have learning difficulties and whose first language is not English . |
| 13 | The CRE investigation , its first against any named council or organisation in Scotland since it was set up in 1976 , will focus on alleged breaches of race relations and employment laws for failing to provide for children who do not speak English fluently and for failing fully to involve their parents . |
| 14 | Subsequently , the project will focus on possible reforms and examine the extent to which they will alter the distribution of either care or payment for that care . |
| 15 | The project will focus on such issues as the business origins , form of economic activity , industrial strategy , links with foreign capital for each capitalist group . |
| 16 | It should focus on internal needs defined by the school and its teachers , not merely what outsiders consider to be important . |
| 17 | The $14.7 million study , expected to last around 10 years , will focus on 100,000 farmers , their families , and other pesticide users in the states of Iowa and North Carolina . |
| 18 | Having concentrated so far on administration and CIA involvement , Walsh declared that the final stages of his investigation would focus on other agencies which either collaborated in , or had detailed knowledge of , the Reagan administration 's secret arms sales to Iran or its covert resupply network for the contras . |
| 19 | CEDARE would initially focus on four issues : desertification and land degradation ; marine resources and pollution in the Red Sea , the Gulf and the Mediterranean ; urbanization ; and the use of fresh water resources . |
| 20 | Why does she focus on gay men ? |
| 21 | Moreover , comparative analysis will focus on three cases where popular movements have organized within major corporative institutions of the political system , so emphasizing their linkages to national governments , and the struggles and negotiations which change these linkages . |
| 22 | SCO hopes the new programme will help it focus on three markets — retail , finance and government — and its expects to sell 1,500 developers kits there in its first year — between 400 — 500 of them in Europe . |
| 23 | Since Compact is an Employment and Training Initiative it is likely that the evolving Partnership between Education and Industry will focus on job-seeking skills for those pupils seeking work . |
| 24 | This will take place in five stages : — orientation interviews , to select the texts and to establish the communicative context ; — initial analysis of texts which will focus on linguistic features likely to indicate relations between disciplines ; — directed interviews with the participants which will allow them to comment on the details of the analysis ; — comparison of texts from different locations and situations to show if a pattern of features is merely peculiar to one writer or if it may have general social significance . |
| 25 | The project will adopt a case-study methodology and will focus on scientific studies of the Precambrian . |
| 26 | ‘ Educational institutions should focus on educational issues . |
| 27 | They can focus on historical concepts like change over time . |
| 28 | Hopefully , they will focus on motivational aspects of this situation . |
| 29 | Figure 11.1 shows an example of a flyer giving basic details of the school , further flyers can focus on particular aspects of expertise or community provision . |
| 30 | In retail operations , particular stores or chains will focus on particular segments of the market ( eg Mothercare ) , whilst others will aim to attract a wide range of customers into their shops , but will organize their shelf-displays to cater for segment needs . |