Example sentences of "by focusing [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequent empiricist versions avoid the Cartesian problem of the relation between mind and body by focusing instead on the epistemological processes of subjectivity , but in this way obscure even further the nature of the body attached to these processes . |
| 2 | Brooke-Rose reverses this familiar postmodernist trope by focusing instead on the relation between the characters and their readers . |
| 3 | Had the results of self-report/victimization surveys and the investigations of quasi-judicial agencies been publicized as much as ‘ official criminal statistics ’ , and had the radical jaundiced and cynical view of criminal definitions been widely publicized , then the mystification produced by focusing exclusively on the characteristics of the prison population would not be so easily achieved . |
| 4 | But this interplay between coercion and consent has been underemphasized in pluralist analysis by focusing only on the inadequacy of the coercive dimension . |
| 5 | We are interested not in what might be the case ( of course anything is possible ) but in what would be the case , and the theory captures that interest by focusing only on the nearest relevant worlds . |