Example sentences of "focus [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the history of policing their need has always been for the light of research to illuminate the activities of the underprivileged and the powerless , rather than focus upon the élite themselves ! |
| 2 | It was obvious and natural that as the last report had dealt mostly with the more able pupils so its successor should focus upon the needs of the pupils of average and below-average ability — that 50 per cent of all pupils , in other words , who gave the Report its title , Half Our future . |
| 3 | Sex education draws together much of the Whitehouse ‘ philosophy ’ , for not only does it explicitly focus upon the young , but also it carries at least an implicit stance on the role and utility of the contemporary family . |
| 4 | More appropriate terms are warm , friendly , modern or stylish , and if our attention should focus upon the pattern or texture of the wallpaper or upholstery , this should always be in order to comment on the taste of the selector . |
| 5 | In Chapter 4 , we shall focus upon the behaviour of NBFIs . |
| 6 | An important element of the project will focus upon the development of international standards in such fields as software , computing and telecommunications . |
| 7 | It will focus upon the procedures used by growing smaller firms to recruit managers , contrasting these with more traditional small firms . |
| 8 | In particular , the research will focus upon the following issues : — the external and internal pressures that shape the formulation of strategy towards restructuring and privatisation within enterprises . |
| 9 | Even when narrowly conceived , the figures do not solely focus upon the CU effect of membership but also embrace other effects of membership such as the outcome for visible trade of the CAP . |
| 10 | ‘ They should also focus upon the achievement of clear environmental results and not on detailed , prescribed management practices . ’ |
| 11 | In place of the pathetic , unimportant little Jew , Kirov focussed upon the main character of the plot , the pilot , Mikhail Vologsky . |
| 12 | Many of these are arranged through a voluntary organisation called Crossroads ( address on page 143 ) which takes its name from the television series because of the attention it focussed on the needs of disabled people . |
| 13 | Gradually the haze and sweat cleared from their eyes and they focussed over the open valley they had cycled up from . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It means the cameras can focus on the lectern knowing that the speaker will always be placed in exactly the same position relevant to it . |
| 16 | ( iv ) Discussion should focus on the effects , in context , of different types of vocabulary , eg archaic , literary , figurative , emotive , dialectal , colloquial , scientific etc. ; of grammatical features such as structural repetition , eg in scripted speeches , advertisements , literary prose , poems etc ; of lexical and grammatical ambiguity ; of the use of grammatical deviance for special effect , eg in advertisements , slogans , poems etc . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She stresses that the reader should not focus on the behaviour of the mother in the novel to the exclusion of all else ; ‘ It 's very important not to see a novel as summing up the entire state of women — yes there are weak women but there are also very strong women . |
| 19 | It does focus on the person in a way that perhaps a crime series does n't . |
| 20 | The lighting section will focus on the different types of lighting required for theatre and for dance . |
| 21 | attention should not only focus on the workplace . |
| 22 | This research will be used to clarify the production , structure and reactivity of critical reaction intermediates and transient species , and will focus on the dynamics of elementary chemical reactions . |
| 23 | The scheme did not focus on the mentally frail ; although a quarter of the cases involved some confusion or disorientation , only three per cent involved severe confusion . |
| 24 | The point is that as the laws do not focus on the results of corporate crime , the corporate criminal need only worry about relatively lenient punishment for breaking a particular regulation , and not be concerned with the wider consequences of that action . |
| 25 | Finally , attention will focus on the specific problems of island nations in the developing world where agricultural impacts have been particularly severe . |
| 26 | Thus , attention will focus on the Himalayan region of Asia and the Andean region of Central and South America where development is occurring rapidly and which , because they constitute watershed areas , are affecting downstream areas . |
| 27 | There is calm and joy , too , when the mind can focus on the magnificence and beauty of the transcendent . |
| 28 | The debate must focus on the key issue of what good practice means in this school . |
| 29 | The second policy issue will focus on the continuing saga of involving clinicians in management . |
| 30 | In this case your review might focus on the differences you had observed between the way the best and worst chairperson had undertaken the task . |