Example sentences of "home in on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we always home in on the cost of a full page . |
| 2 | The eclipses of December 9 , 1992 , and those on May 21 , June 4 and November 29 in 1993 all home in on the area of profession and your personal hopes and dreams . |
| 3 | Both convergent and divergent modes of thought are necessary for a creative act to occur : the writer must actually arrange his freely associated ideas into organised prose or the scientist finally home in on the solution to a problem . |
| 4 | But if researchers home in on the record as the first level of access , ignoring the surrounding administrative context and archival structure which forms part of its meaning , will understanding be fostered or impaired ? |
| 5 | The missiles would climb out of the atmosphere , using a two stage rocket motor , and home in on the heat emitted from a target satellite . |
| 6 | have the pleasure Mr Chairman , I too would like to erm home in on the subject of traffic calming as identified by the previous speakers and er I start with viewpoint that the Liberal Democrat case has been put in which is |
| 7 | I mean would you would you shall we home in on the folders ? |
| 8 | I think if erm , perhaps if television did something more about it you 'd be able to erm , home in on the people who are excluded , erm , people who are outside school , school situations , people |
| 9 | So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent : |
| 10 | If you can home in on the fact that a full page is one thousand pounds per year for two years then it locks in . |
| 11 | Enemy tanks could be illuminated with laser beams and destroyed by missiles homing in on the laser frequency . |
| 12 | Homing in on the parrots , he was shown one that cost £500 . |
| 13 | She watched him sprawl in a cane chair on the terrace , light a cigar , and pick up a book , uncaring of the many and varied insects homing in on the light above him . |
| 14 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 15 | I was sitting on the sofa , quietly crying ; I think I was wishing that Auschwitz looked better than it did , just now , with its windless heat and plagues of flies homing in on the marshes . |
| 16 | An example of a processing bias would be the use of a mental filter — characteristically homing in on the negative in a situation and leaving the positive out of account . |
| 17 | Charles turned abruptly round and gave his wife a withering look as reporters homed in on the pair . |
| 18 | Yesterday , inquiries homed in on the village of Carlton in Lindrick , four miles north of Worksop . |
| 19 | erm but you homed in on the needs and you persisted in finding out from me what I wanted which was good and you checked very carefully on the policies in existence so yeah , considering it 's a page which erm can be a bit confusing you did very well . |
| 20 | Because I mean if we add all these together gents , I mean I pi I homed in on the number , on , on the people , because if you look at our budgets , staff costs are something like ninety percent of our budget |
| 21 | This was precisely the way in which Inspector Porfiry in Dostoevsky 's Crime and Punishment homed in on the culprit Raskolnikov , a man who was also damned by a paper : an article he had written for the Periodical Magazine , months before , offering justifications for certain sorts of crimes . |