Example sentences of "[modal v] focus on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fairly simple markets , agreements may focus on the price of a standardized product ( including agreement on exactly what constitutes a standard product , e.g. terms and conditions of sale ) , or on production quotas for the participating firms . |
| 2 | For example , an assessment of a child 's command of phonology may focus on the child 's use of certain problematic contrasting phonemes , and it may only be necessary to transcribe phonemically those words in which particular contrasts normally occur . |
| 3 | A more realistic approach to leadership may focus on the situation . |
| 4 | Autofocus does have draw-backs though — when an animal is in foliage the camera may focus on the undergrowth and not the animal . |
| 5 | The sociological implications of this view , that racism produces ethnic disadvantage , are that attention should focus on the history and mode of operation of racism rather than the ways in which ethnic minorities do or do not adapt to British society . |
| 6 | However , the implication is that intervention should focus on the prevention or early treatment of the disorder . |
| 7 | In the second case the discussion should focus on the cost to the business , should this be £4,000 or £5,000 . |
| 8 | — if there is limited scope to do this in the pension scheme the spotlight should focus on the adequacy of the company 's keyman life cover . |
| 9 | Such studies should focus on the workload in comparable practices — for example , practices in high and low deprivation areas with similar levels of commitment . |
| 10 | Action should focus on the training needs of all new recruits and continually developing and improving the skills of existing employees . |
| 11 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 12 | First , with talk of deregulation , laissez-faire , greater competition etc , it seems appropriate that we should focus on the role of economic analysis , in particular , the way in which economics can be used to shape law and public policy . |
| 13 | To spot the synergy you must focus on the manufacturing process , not the product . ’ |
| 14 | So any explanation of why it started must focus on the collapse in investment . |
| 15 | To predict the fate of such a crop — and its prospects of proving weedy — research must focus on the plant 's most intimate dealings with its environment . |
| 16 | The level at which this is pitched and the textual content naturally varies depending on the course and the contexts range widely : one day we might focus on the language of a rape victim in Panjabi ( which we roleplayed in Bedford Police Station ) , the next a simulated interview in Arabic on child abuse , and the next a Vietnamese patient explaining her persistent earache to the doctor , a symptom masking the deeper one , i.e. the trauma of being a refugee . |
| 17 | And then last year Branson sold the music business to Thorn E M I for five hundred and sixty million pounds so he could focus on the airline , which was losing money . |
| 18 | On May 31 the ANC secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa told the press that the " conference has given us our battle orders " and that campaigns would focus on the release of all the remaining political prisoners , the election of a sovereign constitution-making body , the establishment of an interim government of national unity , and the creation of the conditions for free and fair elections . |
| 19 | Darlington Liberal Democrat candidate Peter Bergg : His party 's campaign would focus on the health service , the economy and the need for Parliamentary reform . |
| 20 | To structure the discussion , I shall focus on the idea of a golden age of family responsibilities in the past as the starting-point for understanding how these have changed over time . |
| 21 | I shall focus on the role of headteachers and how to deal with them in Chapter 7 . |
| 22 | We shall focus on the search for drugs which lower blood pressure , while noting that they do not cure , that their role is essentially palliative , and that their use is not always appropriate . |
| 23 | The study will focus on a number of areas in Wales which have been selected to cover the range of landscape types in the Principality . |
| 24 | Part of the problem is that as most women who had attended single-sex schools had not known anything else , their comments will focus on the school itself rather than the fact of its being single-sex . |
| 25 | The research programme will focus on the question of land development broadly defined to encompass , for example , a switch towards less intensive farming , the planting of amenity woodland and the residential and industrial development of rural land . |
| 26 | The research will focus on the adaptation of carbon dioxide lasers for topside and subsea welding work in both a wet and hyperbaric environment and the eventual development of a remotely operated welding system . |
| 27 | Much attention will focus on the inclusion in the census for the first time of the self reported limiting , longstanding sickness item . |
| 28 | It will focus on the economics of land management and the influence of existing forms of land designation ( for example Management agreements on Sites of Special Scientific Interest ) on the way land is managed . |
| 29 | The analysis of policy options will focus on the relationship between the curricular aims of these IT initiatives and whole curriculum policies for the 9-14 age range . |
| 30 | This chapter will focus on the capacity of children to use language as a vehicle for communication once they reach school age . |