Example sentences of "[noun sg] focus [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R. R. Dale 's ( 1969 , 1971 , 1974 ) three-volume study focuses mainly on the social advantages , and it is possible in any case to challenge the nature of the superior social development of girls which is argued to accompany mixed rather than single-sex schooling , since one of the things it may involve is breaking down girls ' resistance to the imposition of various stereotypes of femininity to a greater extent than is found in single-sex schools . |
| 2 | The accolade focused specifically on the ceramic dome tweeter that Wharfedale have developed and which is now , incidentally , fitted to the ‘ C ’ version of the Harewood model . |
| 3 | Then as her gaze focused unconsciously on the hyacinth-coloured bedspread , she found herself remembering what Silvia had said : ‘ I thought you ought to have a room with a double bed , for when your boyfriend comes to visit you ’ . |
| 4 | This development has given us the opportunity to organise our business to focus again on the changing needs of our customers . |
| 5 | For example , one group focused specifically on the particular problems and needs of Asian parents , another was for older parents and carers , and several groups provided significant elements of direct service . |
| 6 | The division seems almost complete : classical criminology focused entirely on the causal-corrective significance of the criminal justice system and ignored individual , social and economic factors ; positivist criminology focused almost entirely on the causal significance of individual , social and economic factors and ignored the criminal justice system . |
| 7 | The manager and the subordinate jointly review performance focusing not on the individual but the latter 's work situation . |
| 8 | First , the analysis focuses mainly on the textual features of Larkin 's " Talking in Bed " thus only partially highlighting their communicative value in the author-reader interaction and , as a result , re-proposing the formalist idea of foregrounding only with a veneer of novelty . |
| 9 | To help its clients keep up with the seemingly exponential growth of market data , Yamaichi Securities Co. , Ltd. has created the world 's first integrated information system focused exclusively on the financial sector . |