Example sentences of "[adv] home in on " in BNC.
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| 1 | thesis ( Young 1986 ) , Mike Chatterton ( 1988 ) rightly homed in on this question of ethics , saying : ‘ there is reference here to the moral dilemma(s) posed by ‘ insiders ’ using their access to do ethnography and what that entails regarding betraying confidences etc … . |
| 2 | Both convergent and divergent modes of thought are necessary for a creative act to occur : the writer must actually arrange his freely associated ideas into organised prose or the scientist finally home in on the solution to a problem . |
| 3 | And we always home in on the cost of a full page . |
| 4 | There 's a small one in between but I always home in on that one there . |
| 5 | However it 's the bigger one that we we always home in on . |
| 6 | If the quality of bottom-up information was good , the algorithm could quickly home in on the correct sequence of words . |
| 7 | His straighter , that 's far too many , let's have a look at what you 're saying on the phone , let's really , really home in on that , and practice , and practice , and practice . |
| 8 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 9 | All that happens is that the animal waits until the treated garments are discarded and then homes in on some other , more suitable surface . |
| 10 | An example of a processing bias would be the use of a mental filter — characteristically homing in on the negative in a situation and leaving the positive out of account . |
| 11 | Marshall and fellow defender Richard Jobson were both booked in the space of a minute for pulling down Shearer as he twice homed in on goal shortly after half time . |
| 12 | In retaliation the US Navy sent in A-7 attack aircraft launching stand-off Harm missiles which neatly homed in on the Libyan radar stations and destroyed them , killing over 70 Libyans . |
| 13 | So you have your group sitting round and you say , this is our problem now that we 're going to actually home in on . |
| 14 | On the part of the doctor , British medical training until recently has paid scant attention to the patient 's need to be listened to and the doctor will therefore home in on physical symptoms only . |