Example sentences of "focuses [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with the earlier , mainstream , psychology of women , the contemporary feminist version focuses predominantly on women 's low-status roles as mothers and motherers , the biological , social and emotional facilitators of everyone around them . |
| 2 | Neither of these , strictly , is the territory of Calvino 's fiction , which focuses rather on the relation between the two . |
| 3 | Townsend 's most important definition of poverty which emphasizes that lack of money leads to in inability to join in fully in social life , producing in exclusion of individuals and social groups from ordinary life , focuses crucially on the role of lack of participation and powerlessness in the social construction of the ‘ poor ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The task is either hopeless or depends on a very bold speculation about brain differences , if one focuses only on the wink itself . |
| 6 | It follows therefore that if the domain is known , it may be advantageous to eliminate the alternative word senses from a definition so that processing focuses only on those that are relevant to the domain . |
| 7 | Several health problems may arise from the uncontrolled ong term abuse of self administered laxatives but this study focuses only on anthranoid laxatives and their relation to the development of colorectal cancer . |
| 8 | Moreover , the ‘ pleasure-pain ’ excitement of hysterical worshippers focuses entirely on the actions of the libido-quarterback . |
| 9 | In this , all assumptions about external reality are suspended ( ‘ bracketed ’ ) and the theorist focuses entirely upon his field of immediate experience . |
| 10 | The mouse lemur 's pattern of life focuses especially on the female 's feeding ecology , upon which the males dispersion is contingent . |
| 11 | The range of coverage indicates the number of newspapers which cover a particular case , while the amount focuses especially on the number of days that a case is mentioned . |
| 12 | He never actually says this in his publications , rather the reverse , but he offers a methodology that focuses away from the child . |
| 13 | ‘ The points collation system is very detailed and focuses individually on each TNT principle . |
| 14 | Out of many systematic works from this period we may select for mention two , both titled Theology of Revelation : that by Latourelle ( 1968 ) , which is more historically based , and that by Moran ( 1967 ) , which focuses more on the experience of revelation as personal communion . |
| 15 | ICL , now 80% owned by Fujitsu Ltd , says margins on its hardware sales have shrunk as much in the last 18 months as in all the five years preceding , and it aims to drive revenues from its services business even higher as it focuses more on that market , through organic growth , joint ventures , marketing agreements and by acquisition . |
| 16 | In considering the impact of divorce on family life , popular attention to the mass-media probably focuses more on the situation of single-parent families than on reconstituted ones . |
| 17 | This chapter therefore focuses more on the work I have done , with Marie — Louise Newell , on the question of comparing the pay of men and women . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | An ‘ equal opportunities ’ ideology which focuses purely on girls aims to provide compensatory experiences for the ‘ problems ’ ensuing from their ( disadvantaged ) socialization . |
| 20 | The Audit Commission 's response to Government proposals for the council tax focuses mainly on administrative implications . |
| 21 | Walter Cahn 's important Romanesque Manuscripts in 1993 discusses masterpieces of illumination , such as the great Bibles and focuses mainly on paintings with an iconographical interest , while its catalogue details information about format , style , contents and provenance and literature for each manuscript . |
| 22 | Lesbian feminist psychologists ' research focuses mainly on sexuality . |
| 23 | Over recent years the most popular explanation of Britain 's comparatively weak economic performance — and one which focuses mainly on the period of rapid decline since 1960 — has been that insufficient resources have been devoted to those parts of the economy which produce a ‘ marketable output ’ [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 24 | R. R. Dale 's ( 1969 , 1971 , 1974 ) three-volume study focuses mainly on the social advantages , and it is possible in any case to challenge the nature of the superior social development of girls which is argued to accompany mixed rather than single-sex schooling , since one of the things it may involve is breaking down girls ' resistance to the imposition of various stereotypes of femininity to a greater extent than is found in single-sex schools . |
| 25 | First , the analysis focuses mainly on the textual features of Larkin 's " Talking in Bed " thus only partially highlighting their communicative value in the author-reader interaction and , as a result , re-proposing the formalist idea of foregrounding only with a veneer of novelty . |
| 26 | Such an aseptic definition , however , seems rather sterile as it focuses mainly on literature as text thus ignoring its socio-cultural values . |
| 27 | In Northern Ireland 's divided society therefore , community policing has both a specific and a general meaning , for in one sense it focuses narrowly on overcoming Catholic hostility to the police , while in another the ‘ community ’ which is addressed is defined more broadly to encompass all residents in the province , although often these two aspects intermingle . |
| 28 | But much will hang also on the extent to which teachers succumb to the temptation to teach for the test , and thereby create a classroom atmosphere that focuses narrowly on learning the content and the skills that will be tested , and is therefore less lively , less varied , more repetitive and more anxiety-provoking for the pupils . |
| 29 | A final element in the USA is the legal interest in mental health which focuses strongly on the individual and the right not to be committed except in extreme circumstances . |
| 30 | 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 . |