Example sentences of "focuses [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | In turn , discussion on this topic often focuses less upon the effect of property relations today than on the links established between property as an institution and Locke 's concepts of individuality and natural rights , and , in turn , Marx 's critique of private property . |
| 2 | In this , all assumptions about external reality are suspended ( ‘ bracketed ’ ) and the theorist focuses entirely upon his field of immediate experience . |
| 3 | The third again focuses directly upon the child but we may sometimes ask ourselves whether the dissonance between child and parents , or child and society at large , is mutual rather than child-centred . |
| 4 | The ‘ Sounds in Words ’ part of the test uses a picture-naming approach to elicit words which contain the relevant phonemes ; whereas the EAT focuses exclusively upon consonants , the Goldman-Fristoe test claims to sample all consonants ( except ‘ measure , ) , all vowels and the majority of English diphthongs . |
| 5 | The literature often focuses excessively upon officer-councillor relationships , thereby overlooking the very different roles which councillors themselves adopt . |
| 6 | This study focuses instead upon interests in essentially urban industrial landscapes , raising questions of the methodology of assessment in these particular circumstances . |
| 7 | ‘ A crucial problem in the law of rape is precisely that it focuses unswervingly upon the non-consent of the complainant . |
| 8 | It focuses specifically upon the politics of the distribution of state grants , loans and subsidies in the Swedish commercial fishing industry . |