Example sentences of "be focused on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many initiatives are focused on specific DRB requirements , but some are also being spread more widely around the Group . |
| 2 | The research and teaching interests of the staff are focused on traditional and modern Chinese language , literature , philosophy , religion , history and art , and postgraduate students are encouraged to pursue a broad range of topics in these and related fields . |
| 3 | Though much attention has been focused on critical ‘ breakthroughs ’ in such areas as micro-electronics , biotechnology and new materials where the potential for creating dramatic changes is obvious , change can also be created in small steps as firms find new ways of upgrading efficiencies . |
| 4 | First , political attention has been focused on public sector pay as a major element in the growth of state expenditure and of the deteriorating financial performance of state enterprises ( see , e.g. , Dubois 1975 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 5 | Their attention has been focused on rifted margins largely because of their potential oil and gas reserves . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | In the second phase attention will be focused on personal and metaphysical problems encoded in a disorientating existential discourse . |
| 8 | Attention will be focused on young people who are not normally considered to be at risk in terms of drug misuse . |
| 9 | Thirdly , such networking should be focused on specific tasks , such as health communication or consumer action , rather than addressing issues in general . |
| 10 | More attention needs to be focused on other records or information resources that document our culture and on a range of other institutions that produce them . |
| 11 | Development efforts within the forest should be focused on small-scale projects under the direct control of indigenous communities . |
| 12 | This was to last two years and to be focused on public law and , once more , the study and analysis of diplomatic documents : the pupils were also to have a knowledge of either English or German . |
| 13 | In the first phase attention will be focused on historical and political problems encoded in an authoritative communist discourse . |
| 14 | Much of it is therefore being focused on new developments for commercial exploitation in industry . |
| 15 | Although the Christianson and E. F. Loftus ( 1987 ) study appears to tell a convincing story in terms of attention being focused on central information in the arousal condition , other studies have not produced such clear results . |
| 16 | Clearly , the degree to which these events were focused on specific curriculum areas and on the library project varied . |
| 17 | Jones and Palmer 's BYU team were focused on geophysical questions and , in particular , the abundance of helium-3 . |
| 18 | Throughout the year the anxieties of the Party were focused on local workers and soldiers rather than on the surrounding sea of peasants . |
| 19 | Although developments in engineering ceramics are producing ceramic composites with excellent properties , the major current interest is focused on mechanical properties liked to tissue responses . |
| 20 | A major part of the reform of the CAP is focused on rural development , and that is important for less-favoured areas where there are smaller farms . |
| 21 | People who refuse to care for themselves , people who are a danger to themselves or others , and people who have no insight into the fact that they are seriously ill are not well catered for by a system which is focused on needs-led services where the consumer 's view is taken seriously in assessment and in provision . |
| 22 | The purpose of this book is to bring together , for the first time , the most significant and pertinent association between man 's economic and social activities , and the variation in his atmospheric environment … specific attention is focused on economic activities and the weather , the economic analysis of weather , and the benefits and costs of weather information , including weather forecasting and weather modification . |
| 23 | offers a legal regime more attuned to international transactions than domestic law , since it reflects the influence of many legal systems , whereas domestic law is focused on internal transactions and may thus be less accommodating of international dealings ; |
| 24 | When they are not speaking London English , they may choose to " talk black " or " chat Patois " : but this " black " variety , as I shall show below , is focused on Jamaican Creole in particular . |
| 25 | Whilst Seymour-Ure 's approach is focused on individual case studies , he hints at but does not examine a range of important , but empirically not easily verifiable , effects of mass media in general , and of television in particular : effects which may be both cumulative and long-term . |
| 26 | Much of Rhône-Poulenc 's effort in 199 was focused on integrated the large number of acquisitions it has made over the past five years . |