Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] focus on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The labour force/retirement research focused on the 60–70 age-group , indeed sometimes drawing in those in their fifties , while the social research was more often concerned with those who were older and more dependent . |
| 2 | This research project focuses on the communication skills of those young Down 's syndrome children who show a profound delay in their language development . |
| 3 | There is an urgent need for the NHS Review to focus on the development of training at all levels to ensure that properly qualified , trained staff are available to provide not only hospital care , but support and rehabilitative care for increased numbers of patients . |
| 4 | Traditional industrial catering is very much a specialist business focused on the oil and gas sector of the economy which , due to the remote location of its installations , requires full turnkey support services . |
| 5 | The Audit Commission focused on the 20 most common operations , which account for about 30 per cent . |
| 6 | Hooray for Home Cooking is a cookery show focussing on the specialities of the north-west of England , and takes place on April 6 & 7 at Preston Guild Hall , Lancs . |
| 7 | The Doctor of Business Administration focuses on the skills needed for senior levels of management , management consultancy , management development and education . |
| 8 | A school with , for example , a difficult second year might need and could be offered a selection from in-service training for staff , an analysis/assessment exercise focused on the whole or particular parts of the school , a support teacher for particular departments , some kind of on-site unit , some share in off-site provision . |
| 9 | The workshop began the process of drawing up a charter which would be put forward to the June Chesterfield Conference ( again , any positive work here is being channel led back into the system ) The Reproductive Rights Workshop focussed on the issue of abortion , and individual women 's experiences , and very little surfaced on how these so called ’ rights ’ affect working class women , there was even a suggestion of wages for housework for women ! |
| 10 | Police intervention provoked allegations of brutality , but media coverage focused on the few police injuries , underemphasised the extent of police aggression and exaggerated the women 's part in the violence . |
| 11 | The Grammar Test focuses on the grammatical structures of English covered by the vast majority of coursebooks and public examinations . |
| 12 | Finally , in the climax to episode five , the camera pans up the colonnades of Westminster Abbey to focus on the fully-grown alien monster , its fronds and tendrils twitching . |
| 13 | The subject matter focuses on the work of Fleischmann and Pons for it was their claims that excited the interest and fuelled the passions . |
| 14 | Under Ricardou 's encouragement , Robbe-Grillet 's compliance with such ‘ naturalizing ’ endeavours would be abandoned for a textual materialist perspective focusing on the self-referentiality of the practice of writing . |
| 15 | Two research projects have been funded by Scottish Enterprise to a total of £80,000 : the SHEEC project focusing on the accreditation of company in-house management qualifications and the DEAL project which is examining AWBL issues in relation to groups of workers at ICI and Strathclyde Region . |
| 16 | A year ago world attention focussed on the town of Halabja in Iraq Kurdistan after 5,000 people were killed and 10,000 were injured — mainly women and children — during a mustard and nerve gas attack on March 16 , 1988 . |
| 17 | the HEAT is on Dr DAVID POOL of the Tetra Information Service focuses on the problems of summer pond keeping … |
| 18 | This is conceived not as a set of hardware but as a comprehensive information system focused on the needs identified by the ESSC ( see above ) and anticipating somewhat those of IGBP . |
| 19 | It follows from this reasoning that a company law focussed on the public interest should define management duties exclusively in terms of profit maximisation and should more generally provide a legal framework orientated towards that end . |
| 20 | The Catalysis and Sorption Consortium focuses on the development of software for material science applications . |
| 21 | The systems approach focuses on the organisation as a whole and is concerned with the performance of the organisation and not on the specific requirements of any one department or application . |
| 22 | Most studies of animal cognition focused on the gaining of an experimental control of learning processes in order to examine their nature . |
| 23 | Typically , discussion of lifetime income focuses on the experience of a particular generation ( an age cohort born , for example , in a certain decade ) . |
| 24 | Traditional family casework focuses on the identified members as clients , whereas the targets of unitary interventions range more broadly from non-client members through to neighbourhoods and other social systems . |
| 25 | Social snobbery and showy excellence come into play at the Tate Gallery London , where the exhibition of The Swagger Portrait focuses on the aesthetic excesses of English Grand Manner portraiture . |
| 26 | As a result , a great deal of the research on foreign language learning focuses on the problems involved , and usually on the errors made by the students of the second language . |