Example sentences of "focus [adv] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that the decision would have been more convincing had the court focused directly upon the principles of proportionality and legal certainty : the withdrawal of the licence was a disproportionate method of achieving the council 's aims , coupled with the idea that there should be no punishment without breach of an established law . |
| 2 | Towards the end of the campaign television focused more upon the two-party Labour versus Conservative battle and public expectations about Alliance performance declined . |
| 3 | Official concern was focused mainly upon the bottom forty per cent — those who left school at the minimum age and entered ‘ dead end ’ jobs . |
| 4 | The study focused mainly upon a group of twelve ‘ lads ’ in a school in Birmingham whom Willis followed around school and outside . |
| 5 | What this mode of association requires for determining the jus of a law is not a set of abstract criteria but an appropriately argumentative form of discourse in which to deliberate the matter ; that is , a form of moral discourse , not concerned generally with right and wrong in conduct , but focused narrowly upon the kind of conditional obligations a law may impose , undistracted by prudential and consequential considerations , and insulated from the spurious claims of conscientious objectors , of minorities for exceptional treatment and , so far as may be , from current moral idiocies . |
| 6 | Few anthropologists have focused specifically upon the place of the object in social reproduction . |
| 7 | The rights so far described are focused specifically upon the needs of workers and their dependents . |
| 8 | In turn , discussion on this topic often focuses less upon the effect of property relations today than on the links established between property as an institution and Locke 's concepts of individuality and natural rights , and , in turn , Marx 's critique of private property . |
| 9 | The third again focuses directly upon the child but we may sometimes ask ourselves whether the dissonance between child and parents , or child and society at large , is mutual rather than child-centred . |
| 10 | ‘ A crucial problem in the law of rape is precisely that it focuses unswervingly upon the non-consent of the complainant . |
| 11 | It focuses specifically upon the politics of the distribution of state grants , loans and subsidies in the Swedish commercial fishing industry . |