Example sentences of "to focus on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The School Development Plan emphasises a rational approach to decision-making by encouraging schools to focus on a limited number of priorities and devise action plans to implement and evaluate these . |
| 2 | And , like a drunk will try to focus on a stationary object to stop him turning , turning , Elisabeth planted a buddleia in her mind and watched as the purple emperors mated on the white tresses . |
| 3 | It is less clear whether it can be used to measure plant area though a possible technique is to redesign its optical system to focus on a small area and then use it to scan a larger area , agreeing that a reading above some pre-determined level is ON , below it is OFF . |
| 4 | Secondly , it is better to focus on a specific cause of concern rather than a sense of general discontent . |
| 5 | Instead , individualism is motivated by a desire to defend the idea that individuals are autonomous agents , and thus tends to focus on a particular set of individual properties , including desires , choices , decisions and intentions . |
| 6 | To focus on a particular moment . |
| 7 | The act of producing the video helps to impart courage , self-confidence and a sense of interdependence to the group and encourage them to focus on a clear articulation of their situation . |
| 8 | ‘ But it 's true , ’ she said aloud , forcing her eyes to focus on the middle distance . |
| 9 | The approach used by Watts and Quimby does not have these problems , however , it encourages the subject to focus on the external environment in order to answer the question , moreover it makes the assumption that subjective risk is determined only by the chances of a near miss , it may clearly relate to other factors as well ( e.g. severity of consequences in an actual accident , presence of a police car , unpredictability of pedestrians ) . |
| 10 | Radcliffe-Brown ( 1952 ) and Evans-Pritchard ( 1965 ) denied this , stating that there was no a priori reason for not assuming the opposite , namely that ritual creates anxiety , and that the task of the anthropologist was not to infer psychological states in others , but to focus on the sociological significance of social institutions : ritual being one such . |
| 11 | Data users will also need to focus on the specific security concerns relating to the identifying data element , ‘ which relates the stored data to a certain individual ’ ( Bing 1991 : 171 ) . |
| 12 | Officials see little need for early ‘ crisis ’ talks on the situation in Japan but believe that the G7 meeting on April 26 is almost certain to focus on the Japanese situation , with the International Monetary Fund expected to set the scene with new forecasts for the global economy . |
| 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 | Johnston faulted his defence for being too flat in that , as an outside centre himself , the A team 's coach is quick to focus on the insufficient depth which gives the player in that berth no chance to cover such a thrust by the opposition 's inside centre . |
| 15 | The effect is to focus on the systematic relationship between signifiers that is characteristic of language in general . |
| 16 | It means that at some point in a viewing activity the learner can be asked to focus on the visual channel only . |
| 17 | I want first to focus on the latter meaning , and to describe in some detail what teachers are talking about when they say they are stressed , or suffering from stress . |
| 18 | But perceptions that the Alliance was running second in the polls collapsed in the second week ; and voters ' assessment of Alliance chances of winning a majority or even holding the balance of power dropped sharply in the third week ; while television 's sharp switch to focus on the two-Party Labour versus Conservative battle occurred in the fourth week . |
| 19 | The novels enjoyed a limited success , but because most novelists were concerned at the time to redefine the relation of the individual to society in terms of changing values , it was all too easy for readers to focus on the social dimension of Brooke-Rose 's fiction and to overlook those aspects which can in retrospect be seen to prefigure the problems and techniques of her later work . |
| 20 | Lapping a straggler , he forced himself to focus on the shimmering surface . |
| 21 | Section Two moves outside the classroom to focus on the full-scale drama project , guiding the teacher through the whole process with valuable suggestions and clear instructions . |
| 22 | ‘ It does appear he is now willing to focus on the main issue , that 's why I 'm hopeful , ’ the agent added . |
| 23 | In another respect , the desire to focus on the physical experience of labourers raises a deeper issue . |
| 24 | Our examination of one unremarkable sentence from Katherine Mansfield 's A Cup of Tea shows how it is possible to focus on the stylistic value of a piece of language by comparing with unwritten alternatives : " what might have been written , but was n't " . |
| 25 | The aim , by contrast , is to focus on the dynamic interaction between a chosen mode of political existence and a chosen mode of literary production . |
| 26 | The emphasis is on the vocabulary rather than on other aspects of language and there is a tendency to focus on the high style . |
| 27 | The President managed to focus on the free hand Trent proffered . |