Example sentences of "emphasis on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increased official emphasis on speedy investigation and sentencing in death penalty cases is likely to have further undermined the rights of defendants to a fair trial . |
| 2 | Gombrich 's book is a fine example of a survey , ambitious in scope , clear-sighted in its emphasis on the history of styles , and judicious in appraisals of the work of individual artists . |
| 3 | In the present century emphasis on formal qualities in the visual arts have made musical comparisons more frequent , emphasised by the use by artists of musical terminology , as when Kandinsky chose to call his works Improvisations and Compositions . |
| 4 | Because summer schools generate enormous interest overseas , there is nearly always a strong emphasis on the classical theatre , usually on Shakespeare , and there will quite probably be classes on classical texts and mini-production exercises arising from these . |
| 5 | The three or four terms offered to post-graduate students condense the technical work of a three-year course ; on the whole there is greater emphasis on training the voice , movement , acting technique , fencing and dance , etc. since students will presumably have developed a fair amount of performing skill through their university drama departments or societies . |
| 6 | Would you say that with so much emphasis on film and the camera , theatre training is becoming less important ? |
| 7 | Mr Maclean denied that the renewed emphasis on food safety was part of a campaign of consumer legislation in the run-up to a general election . |
| 8 | WHY is it that hotel owners and operators put so much emphasis on recruiting professional ‘ hotel designers ’ to create the right hotel , but , when it comes to the inclusion of leisure facilities , then they appear to approach any designer , with the impression that it can be addressed from a design viewpoint just like any other area ? |
| 9 | The Italian influence on British cooking has resulted in a shift away from traditional classical sauces and stocks towards an emphasis on ‘ something exquisitely fresh , with the least amount of modification in the process of preparation ’ , to quote from an old Tuscan cookery book . |
| 10 | The Women in Film group will produce a session with particular emphasis on Women as Audience and the Representation of Women in Sport . |
| 11 | The emphasis on ‘ directed ’ research is mine and indicates the reduced potential for any ethnographic sedition , for which force would seek to direct officers to the critical analysis of its subcultural idiosyncrasies ? |
| 12 | Indeed , there was now more of an emphasis on the separation , with an enhanced denigration of civilians . |
| 13 | Inflation of the theatricality of the social drama leads detectives to lay emphasis on ‘ the big job ’ and the arrest of the professional ‘ prig ’ who commits the big burglary or pulls off a daring robbery . |
| 14 | An emphasis on spontaneity , immediacy and the ‘ existence ’ throws into relief one of the senses in which communitas contrasts with structure . |
| 15 | In addition to his leadership potential , it is interesting to note the particular emphasis on character and deportment : excellent self-imaging ( in cleanliness and clothing ) ; good social awareness ( cheerful and pleasant , friendly to everyone ) ; marked intelligence ; a fine sense of humour ; tendency to boredom ( ‘ disinterest ’ ) ; sportive , especially in sailing and skippering , but a good all-rounder ; biddable . |
| 16 | This emphasis on people — the populace — has the ring of truth about it . |
| 17 | Ironically , Judaism 's splendid emphasis on the father-son relationship , the most sacred there is next to that between the Creator and the created , exacerbates this loss ; hence Judaism 's very humane laws to do with ‘ the fatherless ’ — far ahead of its and any other time . |
| 18 | In them there is an avoidance of subjective emotion , an abhorrence of rhetoric , an emphasis on simplicity , with terseness and economy of expression ( the first — subjectivism — not shared by Leonard , of course ) . |
| 19 | It is a pity ; for it was commentators of his stature , followed by journalists of no stature , who promoted an excessive negative emphasis on Leonard which was out of balance with his work as a whole . |
| 20 | The emphasis on the mentality and immateriality of sense experience was associated with the denial that there was anything special about intellect . |
| 21 | There is a tendency of protagonists of the computational theory of mind to boast that they are restoring the Aristotelian emphasis on cognition and thought , and unseating Descartes ' modernist emphasis on consciousness . |
| 22 | There is a tendency of protagonists of the computational theory of mind to boast that they are restoring the Aristotelian emphasis on cognition and thought , and unseating Descartes ' modernist emphasis on consciousness . |
| 23 | This approach sees classical and ultra-modern theories as constituting a sound tradition from which the Cartesian emphasis on consciousness constitutes an unfortunate aberration . |
| 24 | Notice the emphasis on natural athleticism . |
| 25 | Lunges will place more emphasis on the quadriceps and glutei , and are therefore excellent for women to raise sagging bottoms . |
| 26 | Front squats also place more emphasis on the quadriceps . |
| 27 | The incline bench press puts more emphasis on upper pec development and the decline bench press gives more low pec development . |
| 28 | Dips will also place great emphasis on this line if they are performed very low , that is with the shoulder below the level of the elbows . |
| 29 | For elderly people , there must also be concern that emphasis on reducing waiting times by contracting for services non-locally will impose serious hardship on those unable or unwilling to travel . |
| 30 | Weighting allows pre-judging of the relevance of any points and so reduces emphasis on suspect data . |