Example sentences of "emphasis [modal v] be on " in BNC.

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1 Alternatively if the process is highly complex the emphasis may be on the pattern of events as indicated by a network of blocks with a specialist symbol indicating the many points within the system for which information for the operator might appear and another symbol for points where he can interfere in the system dynamics ( Fig. 1.27 ) .
2 When it comes to sailing in a series of races the emphasis must be on consistency .
3 The major emphasis must be on providing the users with an overview of the available information , and how the information is interrelated .
4 The emphasis must be on total patient care , whereby the learner has responsibility for particular patients .
5 Neither prosecution nor dismissal really solves the underlying problems , and our emphasis must be on establishing control .
6 As discussed earlier , the emphasis must be on the residual rural population , even if in a minority , who are , and will always be , dependent on public transport .
7 Incidentally , from now on the emphasis must be on making not taking .
8 The debate has continued ever since on whether the main emphasis should be on their economic or their social role .
9 The emphasis should be on quite small units — for both retail and restaurant use .
10 The emphasis should be on supporting and protecting your own jumper and not illegally interfering with the opposing jumper .
11 The emphasis should be on informing and maintaining professional interest .
12 The emphasis should be on objectives , programmes and programme elements , all stated in output terms .
13 The emphasis should be on the feminine for another , and more important , reason .
14 The Minister and I may disagree about whether the emphasis should be on voluntary or statutory agreements .
15 Those in middle-class occupations are more likely to be better paid and pursue a preferred life-style than those in working-class occupations ( though the emphasis should be on the likelihood , not the certainty ) .
16 The emphasis would be on promoting good health by such measures as giving people the right to a ‘ National Health Check-up ’ .
17 In this cycle emphasis would be on achieving acceptable standards of oracy and literacy ( in Sesotho ) , though oral English is also introduced , together with adequate numeracy and other basic elements : i.e. coordination of eye and hand ; simple powers of observation and reasoning based on the home , school and local environment ; personal health habits and positive attitudes appropriate to the age of the child .
18 The emphasis would be on well designed infrastructure in a high quality environment , with the whole area perhaps run by a municipally-employed ‘ street manager ’ .
19 Directed skills training — Here the emphasis would be on acquiring the skills needed to operate particular packages effectively .
20 The emphasis will be on developing an actor 's mental and physical concentration , and giving him/her sufficient craftsmanship to sustain a performance .
21 Where no significant indigenous coal is available ( and this applies to Singapore , Hong Kong , Taiwan and South Korea ) the emphasis will be on importing coal .
22 In the past , raising productivity often went hand in hand with increased production ; now the emphasis will be on encouraging practices which will reduce costs , save energy , improve living and working conditions , protect and improve the environment and raise the quality and value of products leaving the farm .
23 The immediate emphasis will be on cost containment and cash conservation .
24 The emphasis will be on a ‘ more active type of short-term fostering , ’ according to family placement social worker Jane Embling .
25 As ever at Jaguar , the emphasis will be on making the car smooth and quiet .
26 The emphasis will be on needlecraft and allied skills , as the house has many fine period pieces of such work .
27 The emphasis will be on real situations , real problems and real solutions .
28 Emphasis will be on achievement already realized in terms of scientific , technological and social contributions to such problems as acid rain , desertification , loss of species , contamination of the oceans , and atmospheric changes .
29 In such a course the emphasis will be on a uniform coverage of all the subject areas , allowing specific individual interests to be catered for by electives .
30 The emphasis will be on putting everything into context , not only what a particular package achieves but how it does it , how it relates to the other packages in the same area and how it might be extended .
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