Example sentences of "[vb base] focus on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More specifically , they arc focused on the home , with self-provisioning ( DIY , gardening and so forth ) representing a sphere of autonomy where they can literally ‘ be themselves ’ . |
| 2 | Due to their crusading streak , newspapers have been valuable in discussing the achievements of the mentally handicapped , but again they tend to focus on the sensational . |
| 3 | As with any automatic system , it is the unusual situation which can cause a problem , and here the problem is that most AF systems tend to focus on the cage bars in the foreground rather than on the animal lurking behind them — or the focus may hunt nervously from one to the other . |
| 4 | In this section I intend to focus on the way four of these problems have become interlinked , namely those of underachievement , the concern over indiscipline , and the need for social integration and the employability of particular groups . |
| 5 | Doeringer distinguishes between three major divisions : a pragmatic approach in which theory plays little or no role although , as Eldridge ( 1975 , p. 7 ) has reminded us ‘ the pragmatists in emphasising the need for realistic solutions often carry a good deal of conceptual and theoretical baggage around with them ’ ; secondly , a Marxist approach , stressing class relations and conflict irreconcilability ; and , following Dunlop 's ( 1958 ) seminal work , the highly influential ‘ systems ’ model focusing on the rules of industrial relations and their determinants . |
| 6 | Try to focus on the positive , on what a scene did achieve rather than what it did n't ; give them a vocabulary for talking about the work . |
| 7 | Here I wish to focus on the employment of carefully controlled acts of aggression against the animal world as a means of modifying their relations with the spirit world . |
| 8 | Could I tell your listeners a little bit about the good news that 's in the budget , because we 've talked we 've focused on the minuses so far , but there 's a lot of plusses as well . |
| 9 | We need something dramatic to focus it , either to introduce something which will create a potential for change in this situation ( which will potentially destabilise the situation ) or pick up on something going on in the groups which will have the same effect ; we need to focus on an issue . |
| 10 | I draw attention to their provenance because commentators have focused on the family-magazine question , on the attempt , that is , to get the chapter past Katkov in some shape or form , and I think this is only half the story . |
| 11 | For the same reason they have focused on the groups who seemed most likely to be needy : the working class in the inner city , the isolated and the institutionalized . |
| 12 | The Home Support Project could , for example , have focused on the needs of supporters , or upon dementia sufferers living with others . |
| 13 | This is the third Youth Sunday pack in a series of three which have focused on the notion of evangelisation . |
| 14 | In terms of cross-platform integration , Lotus in particular has aimed to meet the need for spreadsheet implementations on a range of hardware platforms , while others , such as Microsoft , have focused on the PC world . |
| 15 | 1978 ) have focused on the relationship between language and higher-level intellectual processes . |
| 16 | The crucial assumption underlying this analysis , in contrast to those which have focused on the rate of growth of labour supply and the idea of too few producers , is that the achievement of higher productivity is a prior condition for and not a consequence of a higher rate of growth of the manufacturing labour force [ cf. |
| 17 | We have focused on the evidence that demonstrates how the so-called Fox — jailed for life earlier in the year — continued to emerge in different guises during the rest of the year . |
| 18 | Over the past ten years a series of exhibitions at Burghley and on tour have focused on the house 's clocks , European and Oriental ceramics , books , objets de vertu and scientific instruments . |
| 19 | Two recent reports have focused on the part that early nutrition may play in the later development of diabetes . |
| 20 | Other radical feminists have focused on the problems to women of men 's control over their work , especially in the home as unpaid housewives . |
| 21 | Others have focused on the socialization process through which girls are brought up to be gentle , passive people who will do as they are told , while boys are brought up to be bolder and more aggressive . |
| 22 | So far , we have focused on the different implications of relative and absolute decline . |
| 23 | So far we have focused on the time-depth of vernacular variants in English , using ( h ) as an example and treating it as a binary variable ( we have assumed that in such words as hall , hit it is either pronounced or dropped ) . |
| 24 | The majority of studies have been in urban areas and have focused on the activities of building societies and finance institutions in the private sector ( Ford 1975 ; Boddy 1976 ; P. R. Williams 1976 , 1978 ; Short 1978 ) , and on the activities of housing managers in the public sector ( Gray 1976a , 1976b ; Paris and Lambert 1979 ) . |
| 25 | As studies have focused on the immediate pregnancy related complications of gestational diabetes it is not surprising that the value of such screening has not been properly investigated as far as long term complications are concerned . |
| 26 | Crowd-control measures have focused on the limitation or prohibition of alcohol , and the installation of special family enclosures , usually patrolled by extra security personnel ( ibid . ) . |
| 27 | Nevertheless the policy initiatives have focused on the inner cities and attention will now be directed towards the impact of Conservative policies upon the allocation and utilisation of resources in these areas . |
| 28 | Current socio-psychological discussions of school and gender have focused on the consequences of gender stereotyping for boys and girls . |
| 29 | Most of the criticisms have focused on the logical claims of the principles and the contradictions between them . |
| 30 | Previous reports have focused on the evidence for direct cross-infection from patient to patient , and indirect nosocomial transmission from contact with contaminated equipment . |