Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] focus on the " in BNC.

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1 The programme is focused on the following six fields of research :
2 Often , however , an attack of non-specific urethritis can be followed by months , if not years , of needless worry and anxiety , simply because , following the mind 's focusing on the genitalia , the patient has noticed certain characteristics of his sexual organs for the first time , and normality has become abnormality .
3 Current research is focused on the examination of changes in household structure , with particular attention to the residential position of the elderly , within thirteen contrasting communities in England and Wales in the late nineteenth century .
4 The effect is to focus on the systematic relationship between signifiers that is characteristic of language in general .
5 As in Philadelphia the major effort of the Belfast research was focused on the community studies ; the main function of both the doorstep survey and the telephone survey was to provide a context within which to place the findings of those studies .
6 She looked across the desk at Wycliffe as though for encouragement , but none came ; his expression remained bland ; she could not even be sure that he was looking at her or whether his gaze was focused on the window behind her .
7 In fact , a great deal of attention and joy are focused on the newborn baby and its mother , but this soon evaporates .
8 As can be seen from Figure 2 , the normal eye is virtually round , which means that rays of light coming from outside the eye are focused on the retina .
9 I am bemused by the media attention being focused on the fate of the telepoint services .
10 Various global tectonic models were proposed during the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth century , with most attention being focused on the origin of the major mountain systems of the Earth 's surface .
11 It seemed that all her concentration and all the power of every muscle in her body were focused on the point where her fist struck the bull 's back .
12 Much of the work on parasite biology is focused on the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum but extends to other species notably nematode parasites of medical and veterinary importance and Theileria annulata , a parasite of cattle .
13 AS ARGUMENT over the Government 's health reforms shifts to Parliament , and with line-by-line combat over the National Health Service and Community Care Bill , so attention is focusing on the quality of care we should expect and receive .
14 Attention is focused on the external environment and markets , rather than customers .
15 To find its value , attention is focused on the proportions who say they would break the law , ignoring proportions who say they would never break it ( figure 13.6 ) .
16 Attention is focused on the organization undergoing change , rather than on comparison with any control group .
17 Now everyone 's attention is focused on the Bambi case — and the moral implications of making a convicted murderess rich almost overnight .
18 Attention is focused on the problem only for short time-spans .
19 Here , attention is focused on the possibility of transplanting institutions like Quality Control circles or delegated authority mechanisms into Western companies .
20 In the remainder of this chapter our attention is focused on the means by which control has been exercised by the monetary authorities , and the problems connected with such control .
21 For now , attention is focused on the first two reasons why firms invest , rather than rely purely on third-party trade .
22 In Section 7.2 attention is focused on the stress-energy tensor and its properties .
23 Attention is focused on the bar workers ' previous employment experience , their reasons for choosing bar work , what they identify as positive and negative features of their work and how the job relates , where relevant , to their family commitments and leisure interests .
24 Attention is focused on the strategic metals where substitution programmes are being promoted by the EEC .
25 Attention is focused on the programme of public sector renewal initiated by Prime Minister Rocard , its underlying values and intellectual coherence .
26 At the moment , most attention is focused on the island of Sardinia , where in Caliari , England will play Ireland , Holland and Egypt in the first round .
27 Summary : This article is focused on the decision in Berry ( No. 2 ) , where the Court of Appeal refused to relist the applicant 's appeal following a successful prosecution appeal to the House of Lords , notwithstanding that two arguable grounds of appeal previously heard by the Court of Appeal remained outstanding .
28 The second type of underconstrained design process is focused on the manufacturing aspects ( see Figure I .6 ) .
29 This year 's conference was focused on the far reaching issue of international debt , and thus was directly relevant for my involvement in CA 's Debt Working Group and the wider Debt Crisis Network that links interested UK NGOs .
30 All of our attention was focussed on the boy .
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