I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
attention/emphasis/focus shifts
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In this stage of a rape case, the focus often shifts onto the victim and her conduct.
concentrate/focus on an aspect
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Accountants often concentrate on one aspect of accounting.
focus a camera on sb/sth (= point it very exactly at sb/sth )
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The TV cameras were focused on his face.
focus group
soft focus
switch your attention/focus to sth
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Laura wasn't interested so he switched his attention to Tessa.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
aspect
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Thereafter everyone will focus on practical aspects of dealing with an existing problem.
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That the ultra-competitive Johnson would focus on the uneven aspects of his game was a lot less surprising than his actual play.
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The book's later chapters focus mainly upon aspects of media accountability.
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Hopefully, they will focus on motivational aspects of this situation.
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Similarly, within any stage, different agencies may need to focus on different aspects .
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Finally, the graph search perspective helped to focus on the dynamic aspects of speech processing.
attention
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Towards the end of the 1980s attention was being focussed on some interesting developments in wagon design.
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A great deal of social work attention was focussed on the parents and the social and economic situation of the family.
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Those things on which attention is focussed regularly are the things that get done.
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All of our attention was focussed on the boy.
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Further attention will be focussed upon general physical and nutritional health as well as On emotional and spiritual recovery.
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Our attention should be focussed on the direction of movement and the relative change.
chapter
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The book's later chapters focus mainly upon aspects of media accountability.
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In Chapter 7, we focus not simply on what happened to the new managers, but rather on how it felt.
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In this chapter we focus on how you arrange your gathered material in the form of an argument.
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In later chapters we focus on reporting at other stages of the process.
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Two chapters focus on modes of separation.
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The next two chapters focus on the process environment, successively on automated sampling and chromatography.
discussion
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Consequently, the subsequent discussion will focus on different analyses which may be pursued before or after the initial investment.
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Also in these seminars, discussion will focus on wildlife conservation.
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In the second case the discussion should focus on the cost to the business, should this be £4,000 or £5,000.
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Again perhaps an initial discussion which does focus on the differences to get that out of the way might be helpful.
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The present discussion will focus on reasons and natural justice.
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All discussions of eating disorders focus upon the disorderly eater rather than chaotic food.
effort
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Your main efforts should now focus on establishing a firm home base.
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Her mind drifted and blanked, refusing her efforts to focus .
group
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The Department's group communication activities focus on informal education in rural areas.
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The focus groups really helped me focus.
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All of these groups focus on helping family members cope when they have an alcoholic family member.
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Mark Drake combined aspects of both these models by using a group process to focus the political actors on analyzing business issues.
mind
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In each case try to focus your mind on the part of your body that has in turn been made tense and relaxed.
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In the way that you use a camera, you can focus your mind either on positive or negative factors.
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The meditator is required to focus their mind upon the mantra in an effortless, relaxed way.
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He will be able to return on compassionate leave - particularly if it helps to focus his mind on the Test series.
need
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It should focus on internal needs defined by the school and its teachers, not merely what outsiders consider to be important.
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Oratory eliminated the worthless chatter and allowed spies to focus on their precise needs , spewing to the printer only relevant messages.
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In a sales-orientated approach the sales representative is focussing on his needs as a seller.
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The point of such an exercise is to clearly focus on present needs and to clarify the process of learning.
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Action should focus on the training needs of all new recruits and continually developing and improving the skills of existing employees.
problem
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Some of this spirit of discovery seems lacking in the presentation which tends to focus on cataloging our problems .
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You try to focus on the problem again.
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It will focus on the problems arising from the interplay of national environmental policies.
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Mission-driven budgets relieve legislators of micromanagement decisions, freeing them to focus on the larger problems they were elected to solve.
project
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The main questions which the project will focus upon are: Has privatisation laid the foundation for longer-term change in employee relations?
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Brown created Project Foresight to focus on the issue.
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This project will focus on this particular element of formula funding.
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The projects focus on maintaining and protecting the species' habitats, and in some cases establishing them in new habitats.
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The second phase of the project will focus on the actual dynamics of problem incidents.
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The research project will focus on children's comprehension of pretence.
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Two further projects focus directly on management behaviour as it affects approaches and strategies towards employees.
question
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Research into Anglo-Saxon pottery found in the excavation of settlements has tended to focus on questions relating to domestic pottery production.
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The clearest way to focus the questions raised so far is by posing the level-of-analysis problem with more care.
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Having attributed such importance to value consensus, many functionalists then focus on the question of how this consensus is maintained.
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And do not such disciplines go further and focus such questions in real-life judgements, decisions and actions?
research
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Part of the research will focus on Lungu perceptions of, and interaction with, their natural environment.
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His initial research will focus on how best to solve economic problems in inner-city areas.
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Much of the existing research has focussed on the internal adaptations of the firm to the introduction of new technology.
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The research will focus on just one of those research groups, and will trace the discovery and the published discovery claim.
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The research project will focus on children's comprehension of pretence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He stared out the window for a moment, trying to focus his thoughts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any work undertaken on an individual basis should always focus attention on the broader social context in which the individual lives.
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At least, he said, he could focus on his other math class.
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By which is meant that they have developed their ability to focus both senses and mind upon a thought process.
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In the way that you use a camera, you can focus your mind either on positive or negative factors.
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It took a long time to focus and get rid of the swimming water.
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It warns policymakers not to get tangled up with averages but to focus instead on increments.
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Research will focus on the people living in the estates in east Middlesbrough.
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The companies Uunet and Digex, for example, have dropped consumers to focus on business markets.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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This is the composite word on the triangle which is the central focus of every Royal Arch chapter.
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It will provide a comprehensive district-wide service for the first time, and act as a central focus for the community.
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The central focus is the development of leisure interests during adolescence and the theoretical framework draws upon recent work in social cognition.
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The central focus of the analysis is therefore on developments in, and changes in the interrelationships between, sport and medicine.
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Authority is the central focus of hierarchy, which is the chief coordinating mechanism of work organizations.
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Next Time A central focus of the next issues will be on communicating research.
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Rather, the central focus of the magic is the weather-vane on top of the Great Tower.
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The central focus of all this railway activity was, however, the railway station.
clear
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Each part has a clear learning focus and language points are consistently signposted through the use of headings.
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It is clear that the focus is on what ought to be taught: the intended curriculum.
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Every effort is made to bring matters into clear focus .
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Bring into clear and detailed focus all the decision you make today.
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The figure whose character achieved clearest focus was that of Fulk the Good, Geoffrey Grisegonelle's father.
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We can work together as a whole group in which there is a clear focus and a clear task.
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The advantage of this system is that lessons have a clear focus , which is beneficial to student and teacher.
main
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This is the main focus of attention in this chapter.
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Mona, Seth and Barbara make up the main focus of the book, but even the tangential characters are wittily drawn.
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Nithard's main focus was on Charles; but in July 840 the eyes of most of the elite were on Lothar.
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The use of public funds to clean up the jusen mess will be the main focus of the session.
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The main focus of this chapter is elected local government, but this in itself is organizationally far from simple.
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However the main focus is on the Honours which are now on display in the Crown Room.
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More usually formal committees have remained politically representative, with the main focus of organized party activity being reflected in party groups.
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His main focus is what this dispersal tells us about human variation and evolution.
major
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A major focus was the problem of how to resource a strategy for new local services.
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But the real enforcers seem to be the fans, for whom the masked wrestlers are a major focus of fantasy.
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A major focus of the research concerns the strategies and resources available to participants in establishing preferred images and agendas.
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Controllers that learn are a major focus of their efforts.
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Program objectives are a major focus of the evaluation model.
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Ideas and experiences of time will be a major focus .
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Arguably, a major focus of marketing could be on emphasising the individuality of services.
new
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The science needed a change of direction, a new focus .
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But a visit to a local physician for a routine checkup sparked a new focus for her creative talents.
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And two articles emphasising the importance of quality as applied to service issues - the new focus for the quality process.
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Implicit in the name was a new focus on spacing, rather than limiting, families.
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But a new sense of focus and control has set in.
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There are some excellent new books that focus on low-fat, low-sugar, low-salt, high-fibre recipes.
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It is likely that Compact will give a new focus to such activities and provide new opportunities for student involvement. 16.
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The four objectives, however, provide a new focus .
primary
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But it is personal relationships that emerge as the primary focus of this biography.
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The play made David and his anguish the primary focus .
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The primary focus is on the social, as opposed to the economic and technological features of competition.
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And their primary focus for control is always individual performance and accountability.
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Laski's study of judicial review is particularly interesting since its primary focus is a study of Roberts v. Hopwood.
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A spine-tingling vocal concoction that gives Trick Baby its primary focus .
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Given the pleasure and benefit to both men and women, why was it never a primary campaigning focus ?
sharp
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That puts the importance of the order in sharp focus .
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At most ski resorts, large and small, there has been a sharper focus on day-care facilities and staff.
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The banning of the annual sea dump brought the issue of nuclear waste disposal into even sharper focus .
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Programs designed to motivate patients into leaving voluntarily brought into sharp focus conflicting institutional dynamics inherent in the leprosarium setting.
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In recent years this has been brought into sharp focus with growing public concern for a healthier and safer environment.
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Fast Forward Advanced At this level, there is a much sharper focus on authentic listening and speaking.
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Henley Research Centre Strengths Sharp client focus .
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An up-front market study can provide valuable insights and provide sharper focus for the subsequent search.
soft
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Each frozen image has been warmed into soft focus , like a special effect.
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She sees everything in soft focus , but feels nothing.
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Applied over makeup, this transparent, velvety gel puts wrinkles into soft focus .
■ NOUN
group
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General practitioners are also active members of focus groups that discuss particular areas of service such as diabetes.
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In focus groups , they asked the engineers scores of questions: What were their work and communication styles?
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He is a very mundane politician reading the focus group results and staking out a position he thinks will sell.
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One involves focus groups , where a representative customer is selected and asked to perform a task by following the enclosed directions.
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Perhaps the Labour pollster Philip Gould could see what one of his focus groups thinks.
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Part of the study included results of focus groups of girls 10, 13 and 16 years old.
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The focus groups really helped me focus.
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As a focus group later revealed, the more relaxed tone won the readers' interest.
■ VERB
act
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The extent to which a powerful magnate could dominate the shire community and act as a focus for local sentiment varied.
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Similar market-places are likely to have acted as a focus elsewhere.
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Postgraduate activity is organised into a Graduate School, which acts as a focus for research student affairs.
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The site will attract visitors during the festival, and will later act as a focus for inward investment.
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The Summer School and studio have acted as a focus for Jacqueline's work.
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The dead bodies of lagoon fish had occasionally acted as a focus for the processes of petrification.
become
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Children's behaviour problems become a focus of concern when the child is behaving inappropriately or excessively for their age.
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As geology has become the focus of more attention, it has aroused the curiosity of young people about nature in general.
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This is because health and the quality and availability of health care often become the focus of community struggle.
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I made two more visits to Knowlton, and it has now become a focus for my own particular pilgrimage.
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The part of the wood where we were had become the focus to which all the firing converged.
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Reserpine became the focus of further clinical studies.
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Social mobility thus becomes the focus of attention.
bring
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It is that alarming situation which egg producers wish to address and which the battling nuns have brought into public focus .
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She still wears them in class, closing her left eye to bring the blackboard into focus .
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The lens in both the eye and the camera brings the world into focus .
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Programs designed to motivate patients into leaving voluntarily brought into sharp focus conflicting institutional dynamics inherent in the leprosarium setting.
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Along the stem rail there is a line of telescopes; each brings the shore into focus at a given distance.
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This inevitably brings into focus the procedure for the planning, monitoring and control of public expenditure.
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Every effort is made to bring matters into clear focus .
change
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The stories are there - we need only change our focus , alter our frame of reference, in order to find them.
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By changing the narrative focus frequently, Hood fails to control the direction of her novel.
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By changing the historian's focus , these problems can be put into another perspective.
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They just changed the focus from fear to action.
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That question asks us to change our focus and consider our legal practice not in cross-section but over some stretch of time.
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Henry Fan, managing director of Citic, said the company is changing its focus as it shifts assets.
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So it's actually changed its focus .
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You have to change your focus .
keep
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He was, however, having a great deal of trouble keeping the world in focus .
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To keep that focus , Finch has refused to speculate about what happened to Earhart.
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Just for once, let's keep the focus on it.
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While Dole tried to keep his focus on crime, other issues, particularly abortion, cropped up.
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It keeps well to its focus on the individual's relationship to society, and sustains the comparisons.
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This chapter has kept its focus resolutely on the male.
provide
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The operations group was established to provide a focus for information and discussion.
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To provide a focus , Section 11. 4 describes three conceptual approaches to oil boiler conversion to gas-coal burning.
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Less than two minutes away are the three pools which provide the daytime focus .
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That provided a focus , a dynamism, and a sense of obligation to their activities that had been missing before.
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And environmental factors provide an obvious focus for a consideration of preventive options.
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And video's moving pictures also help learners concentrate because they provide a focus of attention while they listen.
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More interestingly, the items which provide the focus to the concordance need not be dictionary headings or even vocabulary words at all.
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An up-front market study can provide valuable insights and provide sharper focus for the subsequent search.
shift
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Such an emphasis shifts the focus away from modifying or repackaging the individual on to a concern to minimise the restrictiveness of opportunities.
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Now, shift the focus to the person who matters most: the reader.
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Ministers have shifted their focus from primary standards to the lack of pupil progress at key stage 3.
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Schools also have shifted the focus of education away from citizenship towards training for jobs, he said.
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This shifted the conceptual focus away from needs as defined in relation to the child's handicap towards educational needs arising from learning difficulties.
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It is often difficult to peg managers who shift their focus from one industry or market theme to another.
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But the tendency for the theoretical concerns also to shift focus and expand is evident in regionalism seen as theory.
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The premium on performance shifts the focus this spring to the exhibition games, starting in another week.
switch
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We should switch the focus: the no-car class; the one-car class; and increasingly the two-car class.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The organization has a simple focus - keeping kids in school.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And this, too, was a consequence of sheer experience and of the pedagogical focus .
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Just for once, let's keep the focus on it.
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Our focus , they say, should henceforth be directed to the secondary years.
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The focus of the drama shifts to discovering the dangers, and weighing up pros and cons of using the magic carpet.
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The play made David and his anguish the primary focus .
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The powers that be were not interested in continuing that serious focus on the black experience.
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The science needed a change of direction, a new focus .
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Three of the company of eight are in wheelchairs - but the focus is always on dance, not disability.