Example sentences of "was focus on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan adopted was to focus on Medeva 's strengths : vaccines , generic pharmaceuticals and sterile injectables ( mainly products used in hospitals to treat severe pain ) , and to add a range of branded prescription products . |
| 2 | The new classification was to focus on drawing together items in the CAB information system by client-situation , so that seemingly disparate things , such as holiday insurance and local animal-care centres , would be brought together as part of the information a client may need when going on holiday . |
| 3 | The intention was to focus on programmes of care to meet the needs of different client groups , and to plan services jointly . |
| 4 | A specific interest of the almost entirely male chamber was to focus on the defendant . |
| 5 | One aspect of this was to focus on the experiences of particular groups : the poor , women and ethnic minorities . |
| 6 | Whilst Rick 's aim in changing the curriculum was to focus on mathematical thinking , this was at odds not only with many parents ' perceptions of mathematics , but also those of one member of his department and the headteacher . |
| 7 | Inchcape 's chief executive , Charles Mackay , said the strategy was to focus on the long-term development of its three core businesses : cars , marketing and services . |
| 8 | Because attention was focused on customers and their changing demands , the organisation became dynamic in outlook . |
| 9 | Their odium was not allayed , but was focused on me , and when , soon after my appointment was announced , I entered the dining room of the Athenaeum ( as a guest ) I was booed . |
| 10 | From Bismarck 's time onwards , ‘ national unity ’ in the new nation-state not only received exaggerated emphasis , but was focused on the rejection of internal enemies of the Reich ’ ( Catholics , socialists , ethnic minorities ) and , increasingly under Wilhelm II , was linked to varying notions of German expansionism . |
| 11 | Most of the attention , however , was focused on the nine days ahead of battling over the direction of economic reform in Russia and over a new constitution , several drafts of which have been prepared by different factions . |
| 12 | Most of the attention , however , was focused on Sevastopol , the headquarters in the Crimea of the Black Sea Fleet . |
| 13 | Buying interest in the first quarter was focused on Germany , helped by the sale of the former East Germany 's assets . |
| 14 | In June 1986 he unveiled a five year development programme for the occupied territories , proposing to spend $1,200 million , which depended upon funding from Jordan 's Western friends , particularly the United States and the European Community , and was focused on the development of the rural and commercial sectors , the two areas deemed least supportive of the PLO . |
| 15 | While there was a cultural aspect to this battle ( the Telagu people faced discrimination as a linguistic minority ) it is stressed that the struggle was focused on the conditions of an agricultural economy organised around a system of landlords and tenants . |
| 16 | Much of the early attention , however , was focused on curbing or banning the recreational pursuits of the working classes which included such activities as bull-baiting , badger-baiting , dog-fighting and cock-fighting . |
| 17 | Much of Rhône-Poulenc 's effort in 199 was focused on integrated the large number of acquisitions it has made over the past five years . |
| 18 | By the end of the 1980s , most of the Ministry of Education 's ingenuity was focused on how to make cuts which would do the least damage . |
| 19 | In the absence of a full Test tour , public attention was focused on the World Cup but the Red Stripe Cup and the England A team tour , the first of its kind to the Caribbean , offered chances to those aspiring to replace the greats who have now gone into retirement . |
| 20 | The analysis reported here was focused on this group . |
| 21 | The attention of people in Britain was focused on the area where Marlborough was campaigning , particularly because this was the area of the greatest military and financial commitment , but this was not the whole of the struggle . |
| 22 | In Washington attention was focused on the application of trusteeship to Korea . |
| 23 | His ears show that his full attention was focused on the photographer until the moment of exposure , when a noise on the left switched one ear in that direction . |
| 24 | With work plentiful , the women 's influence was " not … much felt … but with the start of depression , more attention was focused on them as a threat to the employment of journeymen " By 1879 , the STC reported that while " the influx of females " was " not unbearably felt " while trade was good , " now the necessity on purely philanthropic grounds of course , of keeping the ladies supplied with copy " , had led to " dispensing with the services of a large number of journeymen " . |
| 25 | In order to ensure comparability , the main effort in the interviews was focused on recording carefully designed word-lists , which sampled realizations of several phonological variables in a range of phonetic environments . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He leaned towards Wu Tsai , laughing , smiling , playing the ancient game with ease and charm , but his attention was focused on herself . |
| 28 | Mass picketing was focused on the Hadfields private steel works in Sheffield . |
| 29 | The major attention then was focused on Vietnam and there were very few people covering Cambodia , which also appealed to me as a journalist . ’ |
| 30 | The project was focused on improving fault-finding expertise in part of a largely automated , hot strip mill at British Steel . |