Example sentences of "[noun sg] focus on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an urgent need for the NHS Review to focus on the development of training at all levels to ensure that properly qualified , trained staff are available to provide not only hospital care , but support and rehabilitative care for increased numbers of patients . |
| 2 | But perceptions that the Alliance was running second in the polls collapsed in the second week ; and voters ' assessment of Alliance chances of winning a majority or even holding the balance of power dropped sharply in the third week ; while television 's sharp switch to focus on the two-Party Labour versus Conservative battle occurred in the fourth week . |
| 3 | Although we must recognize the limits of a study focusing on one city , the results are , perhaps , startling , and of considerable interest . |
| 4 | From the ceiling on the far wall , a shaft of bright , dusty light focused on a rusting office desk . |
| 5 | In its original nineteenth-century formulation , eugenic concern about the quality of the racial stock focused on the fertility behaviour of middle and upper class women . |
| 6 | These rather artificial bridges from one group of questions to another are useful for keeping the candidate 's mind focused on the right area of response and for helping the interviewer see his/her way through the prearranged structure of the interview . |
| 7 | The young woman shook her head and steeped the cloth on Sycorax 's brow again , and bent closer , keeping her mind focused on her song , for she knew that someone was at her back , at the opening of her cabin , beyond the screen of rushes that stood there , and he was waiting for her . |
| 8 | In the name of justice ( proportional response to petty offending ) , social workers were severely criticized , and encouraged to adopt non-intervention ( diversion ) , or action focused on offending behaviour , not family issues . |
| 9 | Again the action focused on a strike but this time the melodramatic story , in which all the trouble was precipitated by the boss 's nephews and a socially ambitious foreman promoted above his station , was so farcical as to almost sink the film without trace . |
| 10 | The review focused on the legal nature of the transfer of the lease pools from IBM to the grantor trusts and the insulation of the trusts from a potential IBM bankruptcy , it said . |
| 11 | Second , the two broad types of research focused on different age-groups . |
| 12 | The labour force/retirement research focused on the 60–70 age-group , indeed sometimes drawing in those in their fifties , while the social research was more often concerned with those who were older and more dependent . |
| 13 | His research focused on poly-crystalline diamond compact ( PDC ) drill bits , which have proved to be the most cost effective for the deep , interbedded Colombian wells . |
| 14 | For research focused on formal aspects of code switching , much of the interest lies in the process whereby two widely divergent grammatical systems are made compatible in such a way that switching is possible between them : hence researchers in this area have mainly concentrated on pairs of languages that have no more than chance ( or universal ) similarities . |
| 15 | The subsequent demoralisation in evidence throughout British coalfields has been mitigated to some degree in South Yorkshire by blame for defeat focusing on a clearly identifiable minority , who in response have developed a set of parallel social institutions . |
| 16 | With their financial backing , and some Western aid , Sudan embarked on an ambitious public investment programme focused on large-scale agriculture . |
| 17 | This programme focused on the construction of a better international order after the war , rather than attempting to elaborate detailed terms for an immediate negotiated settlement . |
| 18 | A Sunday Mirror exclusive linked to the television Crimewatch programme focused on a powerful attacker who was nicknamed ‘ Muscle Man ’ by detectives hunting him . |
| 19 | The study focused on welfare assistants working with children with special educational needs in ordinary primary schools and aimed to identify background experience , previous training and qualifications ; conditions of service and appointment procedures ; general duties and specific activities undertaken ; opinions about the usefulness of these activities to both pupils and teachers ; assistants ' role preferences ; and views regarding the kind of support and training required for effective service delivery . |
| 20 | The study focused on the potentially collaborative act of deciding to transfer a patient from the ICU to an area of less intense care , and took place in a 17 bed ICU in a large American university hospital . |
| 21 | The study focused on strategic issues which included safety and personal security in the use of the transport system . |
| 22 | The section exists elsewhere in separate form but it has a propriety at this point , stressing that the dynamic shaping inherent in the process Rolle describes is a property of God and a divine gift ; and it leads into the final summarising chapter focused on active and contemplative life . |
| 23 | The proposed plan of action focuses on the way health and social services work together to provide services to those in need , particularly elderly people , including : |
| 24 | As a social science , Geography focuses on how people create and use their socio-economic , built and cultural environments . |
| 25 | The Doctor of Business Administration focuses on the skills needed for senior levels of management , management consultancy , management development and education . |
| 26 | The first 3O minute tape focuses on 13 exotic fruits , suggesting the listener touch and smell them . |
| 27 | This was a wide-ranging exploratory survey , designed ‘ to obtain some basic information about current training provision which could be used in identifying more specific areas of enquiry … a pilot study focussing on public libraries only ’ . |
| 28 | This study focuses on a group of deprived children and the different levels of development and attainment to be found within such a group . |
| 29 | Accordingly , the study focuses on the cross-sectional properties of some key financial indicators that are constructed from accounting data . |
| 30 | This study focuses on IPSENTA ( the Ipswich Enterprise Agency ) and aims to assess its impact on the local economy . |