Example sentences of "by focus [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public perceptions that the election was increasingly a two-horse race matched trends in published opinion polls but preceded television 's switch towards marginalizing the Alliance by focusing on two-party controversy . |
| 2 | So we can simplify the analysis of relative preferences by focusing on the electorate 's relative preference for the Conservatives rather than Labour , that is on ( C — L ) / ( C+L+A ) . |
| 3 | Long before the director first calls ‘ Action ’ , or anybody has to worry about time , money , the weather or an irritable starlet , the producer , director and writer can sort out the lineaments of the project by focusing on what the film is trying to do , and how it can be made to work . |
| 4 | Wrangham ( personal communication ) has recently sought to explain the basis for these two types of lineage system by focusing on the consequences of intrasexual competition . |
| 5 | But by focusing on a particular selection of empirical evidence , the book seems to shift the blame from the poor and the underclass to women and to their lack of available , acceptable marriage partners . |
| 6 | The exploration stage helps the client to open up the problem for review and then narrow down by focusing on issues that need immediate attention . |
| 7 | Some clubs pursued their aim by focusing on recreation , physical exercise , and outdoor games ; some were more concerned with general academic education ; others with religious instruction ; while many tried to offer varied programmes . |
| 8 | Rhodes , by focusing on shifts within the organizational structures of the state , is able to identify some reasons for longer-term stability , but is less able to explain the extent of change since the late 1960s . |
| 9 | The first-year unit integrates the approaches of historians and political scientists by focusing on the changing characteristics of the state as it has emerged in the modern world . |
| 10 | The interdisciplinary course offers a new and attractive way of studying at undergraduate level such subjects politics and history by focusing on the notion of conflict and the particular political and social problems arising from conflict , and in so doing seeks to identify ways of resolving them . |
| 11 | Recondite though her theme may be , she succeeds , by focusing on its scientific aspects , in demonstrating that it is not without relevance to our own times , as becomes immediately apparent when she finds the origin of the movement in an information explosion . |
| 12 | Christian teaching reverses this trend by focusing on personal responsibility . |
| 13 | By focusing on some of the difficulties people may encounter we do not wish to suggest that life is nothing but problems , nor to imply that these problems can not be overcome . |
| 14 | By focusing on the herbivores and their relationship to changing plant life , we can gain a better idea of what happened next to the dinosaurs . |
| 15 | They suggest that , by focusing on pornography and sadomasochism , many lesbian feminists avoid addressing more general problems and concerns about sexuality . |
| 16 | But by focusing on the way party leaderships and their organisational structures block the road to realignment on the left , Hall passes over the fundamental weakness of radical culture in British civil society . |
| 17 | This understanding is relative to the views of David Bohm , which transcend both Burr 's and Sheldrake 's views by focusing on the process at cosmic level , although the work of Burr and Sheldrake can be comfortably accommodated within Bohm 's grand structure and become essential elements in his design . |
| 18 | Whereas the defence theory , which stresses the child 's unwillingness to adapt , is on the side of the adult , confusion theory , by focusing on the failure of the family , is on the side of the child . |
| 19 | ‘ By focusing on team building , project management , communication skills and so on we will provide the learning strategy that produces not just highly skilled but highly flexible people , ’ she says . |
| 20 | While it is true that different assessment procedures usually focus on one or other of these different aspects of language , this is a reflection on the recent history of psycholinguistic research and ought not be taken to imply that assessment is best carried out by focusing on discrete areas . |
| 21 | The family kept together by focusing on the daily difficulties of life with the grandmother . |
| 22 | NEC Corp 's Wood Dale , Illinois-based NEC Technologies Inc expects once again to double its sales in 1993 by focusing on its CD-ROM business : the company says it experienced ‘ explosive sales ’ of CD-ROM products in its fiscal year 1992 to March 31 — its Advanced Media Group , which markets MultiSpin CD-ROM readers , reported revenues of over , $75m , an increase of 135% . |
| 23 | By focusing on particular school experiences , crucial though they are , other differentiating variables tend to be ignored . |
| 24 | This chapter , therefore , examines some of the ways in which I conducted this work by focusing on teachers ' appointments and teachers ' work in Bishop McGregor School . |
| 25 | I will examine this problem by focusing on my own research at three points in time , the 1950s the 1970s and the 1980s . |
| 26 | Many Western commentators , by focusing on what is familiar to them , namely state-to-state relations , have tended to emphasise the importance of divergence and diversity with the WTO countries . |
| 27 | By focusing on a single service , an appliance can be made easier to use and can be optimised for performance . |
| 28 | By focusing on a single service , an appliance can be made easier to use and can be optimised for performance . |
| 29 | Wouters ' more recent writings on the process of informalisation begin to plug another gap in his early conceptualisation by focusing on the changing balance of power between the sexes . |
| 30 | Foucault inflects this model by focusing on the possibility of constructing the series so as to repeat the disruption and discontinuity of the ( non-original ) event . |