Example sentences of "[be] focus on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although I am proposing a variationist view of language change , I have to deal with this in a context where the dominant tendency has been to focus on uniform states ( Weinreich , Labov and Herzog , 1968 ) . |
| 2 | Over the last few issues we 've been focusing on minor scales and their application . |
| 3 | Their attention has been focused on rifted margins largely because of their potential oil and gas reserves . |
| 4 | ‘ Much public attention has been focused on foreign puchases of real estate , however , foreign ownership of banking and manufacturing is much more important ’ , the report argues . |
| 5 | So our perspective should be to focus on entrepreneurial skills , decentralisation , demonopolisation , considerable privatisation and the replacement of old management . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , there may be opportunities for readers and skills titles in southern Africa , although most publishers will be focusing on other areas of their list . |
| 7 | Thirdly , such networking should be focused on specific tasks , such as health communication or consumer action , rather than addressing issues in general . |
| 8 | More attention needs to be focused on other records or information resources that document our culture and on a range of other institutions that produce them . |
| 9 | Development efforts within the forest should be focused on small-scale projects under the direct control of indigenous communities . |
| 10 | On the Government Review of the nuclear industry , Mr Hann said , ‘ We are focussing on key issues , in conjunction with the Nuclear Utilities Chairmen 's Group , to ensure our industry is well prepared for the review . |
| 11 | Much of it is therefore being focused on new developments for commercial exploitation in industry . |
| 12 | Jones and Palmer 's BYU team were focused on geophysical questions and , in particular , the abundance of helium-3 . |
| 13 | Throughout the year the anxieties of the Party were focused on local workers and soldiers rather than on the surrounding sea of peasants . |
| 14 | It is to focus on these tendencies through the embeddedness of economic action . |
| 15 | Although developments in engineering ceramics are producing ceramic composites with excellent properties , the major current interest is focused on mechanical properties liked to tissue responses . |
| 16 | People who refuse to care for themselves , people who are a danger to themselves or others , and people who have no insight into the fact that they are seriously ill are not well catered for by a system which is focused on needs-led services where the consumer 's view is taken seriously in assessment and in provision . |
| 17 | The purpose of this book is to bring together , for the first time , the most significant and pertinent association between man 's economic and social activities , and the variation in his atmospheric environment … specific attention is focused on economic activities and the weather , the economic analysis of weather , and the benefits and costs of weather information , including weather forecasting and weather modification . |
| 18 | offers a legal regime more attuned to international transactions than domestic law , since it reflects the influence of many legal systems , whereas domestic law is focused on internal transactions and may thus be less accommodating of international dealings ; |
| 19 | Of environmental arguments , attention is focused on those features of the environment that are peculiar to the tropics . |
| 20 | A new project is focusing on cognitive problems associated with operating computer-based systems at work . |
| 21 | Supervision of subordinates ‘ is focussed on bureaucratic procedures and not on the quality of service at the point of delivery to the public . ’ |