Example sentences of "[vb past] focus on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involved focusing on medium-sized towns one alter another and blitzing them with publicity . |
| 2 | The efforts made to focus on new opportunities are now paying off . ’ |
| 3 | It was in the early 1960s that , parallel to its growing emphasis on the ‘ disturbing activities ’ of working-class youth , the media also began to focus on minor incidents of soccer crowd violence . |
| 4 | The firm abandoned the idea that it could be all things to all people and decided to focus on identified areas of expertise examples are the legal profession , building societies and the construction industry — and build a reputation for quality of service by becoming pre-eminent in those fields . |
| 5 | She describes the circumstances in which she chose to focus on these tales : ‘ hearing a black woman describe herself as a daughter of Hagar outside the covenant ; … reading news reports of the dismembered body of a woman found in a trash can ’ . |
| 6 | In part the practical difficulty of withholding tax most of which is deducted at source has prevented it from ever assuming large-scale proportions , while the fact that opposition has in the past tended to focus on specific wars , of which the Vietnam war was the most prominent recent example , ensured that it was usually a relatively transient phenomenon . |
| 7 | Pressure generally came at moments of crisis , such as Suez in 1956 or the Irish conflict in the 1970s and 1980s , and tended to focus on particular programmes . |