Example sentences of "home in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom |
| 2 | I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing . |
| 3 | All that happens is that the animal waits until the treated garments are discarded and then homes in on some other , more suitable surface . |
| 4 | So we home in on five thousand booklets . |
| 5 | Erm however erm a company er a car is needed to do this job so I I home in on that . |
| 6 | And if if we home in on that then certainly then that 's a nice comfortable seven fifty to eight hundred pound a week . |
| 7 | There 's a small one in between but I always home in on that one there . |
| 8 | Some weapons home in on infra-red sources , some on radar , others just go where they are told . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This undermined any pre-ordained police logic we might have employed to define them , so that pressures to produce a unidimensional model of ‘ polis — prig ’ were simply unable to be maintained , although we did home in on such facets as their long hair and frequently unwashed state to polarize them as binary ‘ animals ’ , in contrast to our human status . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Shall we home in on these ? |
| 13 | To tell us about the the little problem we reported on , reported on something we want to look at , we can home in on some activity . |
| 14 | The carcasses were left to rot : vultures and buzzards patrolled the sky , homing in on tattered wings . |
| 15 | Homing in on fixed rate offers |
| 16 | Presented by Michaela Strachan , the programme has been homing in on different varieties of animals and conservation projects in countries all around the world . |
| 17 | Homing in on top job |
| 18 | His luck ran out in the early hours of March 4th when French Customs controls identified Sea Rover homing in towards French waters at Ushant after a passage to North Africa for another cargo . |
| 19 | somebody homed in on one and then you would be back on your scaled fee for the |
| 20 | Last Sunday you may remember I held up something at the start of the service , and it was my mail from the previous day and we homed in on one buff letter which had H M inspector of taxes in it . |
| 21 | Two of the Labour Party 's professorate homed in on two facets of the concept which seemed particularly appropriate for their party . |
| 22 | 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 … . |
| 23 | The twentieth century , inquisitive , irreverent , quite without feeling for the past , homed in upon this ambiguous danger-zone with its life in its hand . |