Example sentences of "[prep] focusing on " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although many of the studies collected in G. Sankoff ( 1980a ) fall within Labov 's standard quantitative paradigm ( see 7.4.2 ) , others resemble Lavandera 's approach in focusing on the stylistic and discourse preferences of the speaker . |
| 32 | Still , in focusing on the collective character of disputes , we are moving to a level of analysis that includes the wider framework of economic and political changes . |
| 33 | In focusing on the physical and organizational features of the ‘ quality learning environment ’ it neglected the necessary questions about the purposes and content of primary education on which decisions about layout , organization , grouping and so on should be contingent . |
| 34 | In terms of detailed variance analysis , it does not , it seems to me , have much of an advantage over conventional standard costing in most situations , but it does help considerably in focusing on the key competitive issues . |
| 35 | In focusing on the criteria of selection and presentation of science in the mass media , the study will contribute to the wider current debate and research effort into sources and media for the public understanding of science . |
| 36 | BP Nutrition 's replacement cost operating profit of £xx million was up by £39 million compared with 1991 , thanks to the measures it had put in place to improve performance and its progress in focusing on key activities . |
| 37 | In focusing on that sphere of life which provides the greatest potential for the expression of individual autonomy , urban sociology is uniquely equipped to chart a path out of the ‘ iron cage ’ which Weber believed was encompassing the whole of modern society . |
| 38 | In focusing on different and only partly overlapping areas for research in code switching , researchers differentiate themselves as sharply by their methodology as by their interests . |
| 39 | The co-ordinator of Greenpeace 's Great Lakes project also claimed that , in focusing on 17 named chemicals , the programme was ignoring thousands of others which pour into the Lakes . |
| 40 | Before focusing on the way in which educational accountability has manifested itself in evaluation procedures we want to spend a little time exploring this more general picture . |
| 41 | Current educational philosophy has moved away from focusing on the physical or sensory basis of disability and so it may initially appear that an understanding of the cause of a child 's disability is primarily a medical matter and not one of concern to the educator . |
| 42 | They need time to move away from focusing on grass-roots provision ’ , she says . |
| 43 | Sherman viewed the situation as a choice between concentrating American defence policy on the island chain including Japan , Okinawa and the Philippines or whether Japan and Okinawa should be abandoned with a retreat to focusing on Guam and the Philippines , as in the Pacific War . |
| 44 | Public perceptions that the election was increasingly a two-horse race matched trends in published opinion polls but preceded television 's switch towards marginalizing the Alliance by focusing on two-party controversy . |
| 45 | So we can simplify the analysis of relative preferences by focusing on the electorate 's relative preference for the Conservatives rather than Labour , that is on ( C — L ) / ( C+L+A ) . |
| 46 | Long before the director first calls ‘ Action ’ , or anybody has to worry about time , money , the weather or an irritable starlet , the producer , director and writer can sort out the lineaments of the project by focusing on what the film is trying to do , and how it can be made to work . |
| 47 | Wrangham ( personal communication ) has recently sought to explain the basis for these two types of lineage system by focusing on the consequences of intrasexual competition . |
| 48 | But by focusing on a particular selection of empirical evidence , the book seems to shift the blame from the poor and the underclass to women and to their lack of available , acceptable marriage partners . |
| 49 | The exploration stage helps the client to open up the problem for review and then narrow down by focusing on issues that need immediate attention . |
| 50 | Some clubs pursued their aim by focusing on recreation , physical exercise , and outdoor games ; some were more concerned with general academic education ; others with religious instruction ; while many tried to offer varied programmes . |
| 51 | Rhodes , by focusing on shifts within the organizational structures of the state , is able to identify some reasons for longer-term stability , but is less able to explain the extent of change since the late 1960s . |
| 52 | The first-year unit integrates the approaches of historians and political scientists by focusing on the changing characteristics of the state as it has emerged in the modern world . |
| 53 | The interdisciplinary course offers a new and attractive way of studying at undergraduate level such subjects politics and history by focusing on the notion of conflict and the particular political and social problems arising from conflict , and in so doing seeks to identify ways of resolving them . |
| 54 | Recondite though her theme may be , she succeeds , by focusing on its scientific aspects , in demonstrating that it is not without relevance to our own times , as becomes immediately apparent when she finds the origin of the movement in an information explosion . |
| 55 | Christian teaching reverses this trend by focusing on personal responsibility . |
| 56 | By focusing on some of the difficulties people may encounter we do not wish to suggest that life is nothing but problems , nor to imply that these problems can not be overcome . |
| 57 | By focusing on the herbivores and their relationship to changing plant life , we can gain a better idea of what happened next to the dinosaurs . |
| 58 | They suggest that , by focusing on pornography and sadomasochism , many lesbian feminists avoid addressing more general problems and concerns about sexuality . |
| 59 | But by focusing on the way party leaderships and their organisational structures block the road to realignment on the left , Hall passes over the fundamental weakness of radical culture in British civil society . |
| 60 | This understanding is relative to the views of David Bohm , which transcend both Burr 's and Sheldrake 's views by focusing on the process at cosmic level , although the work of Burr and Sheldrake can be comfortably accommodated within Bohm 's grand structure and become essential elements in his design . |