Example sentences of "be focus on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Filip acknowledged that ‘ there will be more competition [ with the 9000 ] over time , but for right now , we 're focused on the Unix market . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 're focusing on the Angry Brigade , then ? ’ said Amiss . |
| 3 | The central contribution of these models has been to focus on the ‘ spill-over ’ effects that result from the failure of markets to clear . |
| 4 | Thames is also choosing to launch the transatlantic venture — its first major takeover — as all eyes are focused on the British market where the Government will today reveal the details of its new broadcasting legislation including proposals to force ITV contractors to compete in an auction for the renewal of their franchises . |
| 5 | As can be seen from Figure 2 , the normal eye is virtually round , which means that rays of light coming from outside the eye are focused on the retina . |
| 6 | Investigations are , by their nature , adversarial , and no matter how sensitive the workers are , when all eyes are focused on the needs of the child , the mothers come second . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the future of the Open Software Foundation 's Motif graphical user interface is a subject that 's concerning IXI , as well as some other corners of the independent software vendor community who 's businesses are focused on the emerging de facto industry standard , OSF 's major success to date . |
| 8 | Its customers are focused on the whole distributed environment , not just the kernel , it says , rekindling its determination to implement the Open Software Foundation technologies such as the Distributed Computing Environment and Distributed Management environment in HP/UX . |
| 9 | In fact , a great deal of attention and joy are focused on the newborn baby and its mother , but this soon evaporates . |
| 10 | The case for co-operative R&D ventures that emerges from our survey of the theoretical literature in section II above suggests that they are most desirable where technological spillovers and pecuniary externalities are large , where participating firms produce complementary products , when they are focused on the R rather than the D , and when they do not enhance downstream product market power . |
| 11 | The Centre 's research priorities are focused on the improved functioning of the British and international economies . |
| 12 | Clearly , I am focusing on the idea that it is the residues of bad experiences that lurk as bad objects in our psyche that cause us so much trouble because they have to be avoided at all costs and so rarely get modified by experience . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going to see a sports psychologist because I have n't been focusing on the job and I must become more positive . ’ |
| 14 | The faculty has been focusing on the main issues affecting freight into the next century . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Attention has been focused on the composition of these deposits to see if we can link implements to specific mines . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | To summarise , many partnerships appear to have focused or been focused on the immediate and not necessarily the important . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Recent attention has been focused on the stunned myocardium and while established methods of assessing ventricular function are unable to detect such jeopardised myocardium , newer imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography , nuclear magnetic resonance or contrast echocardiography may further improve risk stratification in the future . |
| 28 | Much feminist attention has been focused on the sexist bias of many of the textbooks used in schools . |
| 29 | Much academic attention has been focused on the classification of the social groups comprising the new types of communities in rural areas . |
| 30 | The prediction was that when a subject 's attention had been focused on the acted-upon it would be easier ( and so take less time ) to produce a passive , whereas an active would be easier when the preamble concerned the actor . |