Example sentences of "been focus [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although I am proposing a variationist view of language change , I have to deal with this in a context where the dominant tendency has been to focus on uniform states ( Weinreich , Labov and Herzog , 1968 ) . |
| 2 | The central contribution of these models has been to focus on the ‘ spill-over ’ effects that result from the failure of markets to clear . |
| 3 | Over the last few issues we 've been focusing on minor scales and their application . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to see a sports psychologist because I have n't been focusing on the job and I must become more positive . ’ |
| 5 | The faculty has been focusing on the main issues affecting freight into the next century . |
| 6 | They 've been focusing on the relationship between staff and students and so why did you focus on what appears to be the short end of the stick , rather than the major problem ? |
| 7 | Research attention has also perhaps been focused to an undue degree on the adoption of physical conservation measures ( eg roof insulation ) and on the costs of a broad set of household behaviours ( eg opening windows while heating ) . |
| 8 | Attention has also been focused on expanding through acquisition , removing doubts about the board 's ability to mix lateral movements with logical progression . |
| 9 | But so far , efforts have been focused on purely military solutions . |
| 10 | Policemen and women are members of a close-knit occupational world with a discrete culture and also face a world which has great variability and confusion , and considerable attention has been focused on the cognitive processes , typifications , and recipes they employ to accomplish policing ( for example , see Bittner 1967 , 1980 ; Chatterton 1975 ; Holdaway 1983 ; Manning 1977 ; Policy Studies Institute 1983b ; Reiner 1978 ; Rubinstein 1973 ; Skolnick 1966 ; for a study of police typifications in the United States which has a very odd combination of Schutz 's ideas , symbolic interactionism , and quantitative and mathematical models , see Sykes and Brent 1983 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Much public attention has been focused on foreign puchases of real estate , however , foreign ownership of banking and manufacturing is much more important ’ , the report argues . |
| 12 | Attention has been focused on the composition of these deposits to see if we can link implements to specific mines . |
| 13 | Considerable attention has been focused on the distinction between causing grievous bodily harm ( section 18 ) and inflicting grievous bodily harm ( section 20 ) : for many years it was believed that the more restrictive word ‘ inflict ’ meant that section 20 required proof of a sufficiently direct action by D to constitute an assault , but the House of Lords has now decided that there can be an ‘ infliction ’ of GBH without proof of an assault . |
| 14 | Much attention has been focused on the concept of ‘ reasonable excuse ’ , where the courts have attempted to impose a fairly stringent test on persons whose reason for carrying a weapon is said to be fear of attack . |
| 15 | A lot of it has been focused on my body — first for being too fat , now for being too thin . |
| 16 | In discussions of the recent Italian novel , however , most attention has been focused on its treatment not of the future , but of the past . |
| 17 | Though transsexuals are a rare phenomenon , much attention has been focused on them , not only because of the difficulties encountered in treating them , but also because of the insight a study of their condition may offer into the wider problems of sex determination and gender identity . |
| 18 | Attention has also been focused on the enhancement of soil nitrogen by the use of nitrogen-fixing bacteria which , if successful on a large scale , could go some way towards reducing environmental problems associated with the widespread use of nitrogen fertilisers ( section 6.3.1 ) . |
| 19 | To summarise , many partnerships appear to have focused or been focused on the immediate and not necessarily the important . |
| 20 | Much Third World interest has been focused on this part of the convention , giving it a disproportionate importance as the first evidence of a new international economic order . |
| 21 | Geophysical work in the core programme has been focused on interpreting existing datasets , particularly so as to pick up evidence of underlying structural controls and increase our three dimensional understanding of the crust . |
| 22 | Core programme activities have been focused on interpreting the existing datasets , with an emphasis on picking up evidence of underlying structural controls and increasing our three-dimensional understanding of the crust . |
| 23 | Understanding the process is of considerable importance however , and it is this which has been focused on here . |
| 24 | Most attention has been focused on the ionotropic receptors ( like NMDA and kainic acid receptors ) , but it is clear that metabotropic receptors operating through the InsP 3 and DAG messenger systems have a profound effect on neural behaviour , including memory . |
| 25 | With such beliefs the Society proved receptive to both the nativist anti-semitic tradition which had been focused on the anti-alien campaign in the East End of London between 1900 and 1905 , to the Marconi scandal before the First World War , and to international influences such as the White Russian anti-semitic propaganda directed at the Bolsheviks after 1918 . |
| 26 | Although attention has been focused on the risks of tampon use , in the United Kingdom there appears to be an equally important incidence of toxic shock syndrome associated with surgical procedures . |
| 27 | The general umbrella term ‘ grouping ’ in practice covers a range of different organizations , and much of the comment on their influence has been focused on how much collective power they exercise . |
| 28 | IN the past , attention has been focused on the problems of the chronology of civil defences and less thought has been directed at the reasons for these defences and why some settlements were chosen in preference to others . |
| 29 | The argument between reformers and conservatives since Mao 's death has been focused on whether to open the window to the outside world or insert an ‘ iron mesh ’ to prevent the intrusion of ‘ dirty flies ’ . |
| 30 | Because Messiahship was regarded as something dynastic , something in part dependent upon a bloodline , people 's attention , as we observed before , would have been focused on a relatively small network of interlinked families who could claim descent from both David and Aaron . |