1 It's time to focus on the company's core business.

2 The focus on my camera isn't working properly.

3 Focus on small goals instead of big ones.

4 Try and focus your mind on your lessons.

5 Education is the current focus of public debate.

6 The company needs to focus on its biggest clients.

7 I think Dave likes to be the focus of attention.

8 His administration's economic policy would focus on reining in inflation.

9 The visit helped to focus world attention on the plight of the refugees.

10 If you focus the sun's rays on dry wood with a burning-glass, it will start burning.

11 He felt he needed to focus more on his career.

12 The noise made it hard for me to focus on work.

13 In the background, in soft focus, we see his smiling wife.

14 should always learn from everything; should focus on in order to know more, know all.

15 The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

16 The key focus of the marketing mix will be on price and distribution.

17 Magnetic coils focus the electron beams into fine spots.

18 These issues have recently come into sharp focus .

19 The scene was beautifully captured in soft focus.

20 Her beauty makes her the focus of attention.

21 She was the focus of everyone's attention.

22 Her children are the main focus of her life.

23 Now the focus is on draining the water.

24 Focus on making a short, firm follow-through.

25 The binoculars were not in focus .

26 He raised his binoculars and adjusted the focus.

27 The new system is the focus of controversy.

28 In tonight's programme our focus is on Germany.

29 I'm so tired I can't focus today.

30 The company's restructuring is designed to give a sharper focus on key growth markets.

1 It's time to focus on the company's core business.

2 Try and focus your mind on your lessons.

3 Education is the current focus of public debate.

4 The company needs to focus on its biggest clients.

5 I think Dave likes to be the focus of attention.

6 The company's restructuring is designed to give a sharper focus on key growth markets.

7 His administration's economic policy would focus on reining in inflation.

8 The visit helped to focus world attention on the plight of the refugees.

9 He felt he needed to focus more on his career.

10 The noise made it hard for me to focus on work.

11 In the background, in soft focus, we see his smiling wife.

12 The key focus of the marketing mix will be on price and distribution.

13 A near - sighted person cannot focus accurately on distant objects.

14 Today we're going to focus on the question of homeless people.

31 Focus the camera on the subject.

32 She tried to focus her mind on her work.

33 The question of compensation comes into focus.

34 Throughout the exercise, focus on keeping your abs tight.

35 She became a focus for all his anger.

36 His comments provided a focus for debate.

37 How do you sharpen the focus on this camera?

38 His focus switched to the little white ball.

39 The problem was suddenly thrown into sharp focus.

40 We want to switch the focus away from criticism.

41 This photograph is out of focus.

42 focus, focuses/foci * formula, formulas/formulae * spectrum, spectrums/spectra.

43 We need to shift the focus of this debate.

44 We need to focus public attention on this issue.

45 The issue must be brought into sharper focus.

46 I found the focus of the debate too narrow.

47 The focus is on relationships among European countries.

48 We need to focus upon the main issues.

49 We wanted to focus public attention on this matter.

50 We need to focus more on crime prevention .

51 The background looks a little out of focus.

52 Please focus your minds on the following problem.

53 She blinked and tried to focus.

54 We really need to focus on this one issue and not get sidetracked.

55 He has to hold newspapers at arm's length to focus on the print.

56 It took an extraordinary effort to focus on preparing his classes or correcting his students' work.

57 This season's fashions focus on warm tones and soft lines.

58 The focus of the conference shifted from population growth to the education of women.

59 We're going to focus on the relationship between freedom and necessity.

60 Pictures should be in focus[],( ) with realistic colours and well composed groups.

61 Our primary focus this term will be on group work.

62 The final status negotiations would focus on the core issues of the peace process.

63 She made a few minor adjustments to the focus of her camera.

64 What I'm going to do in this lecture is focus on something very specific.

65 The focus of interest in the series is what goes on in everyday life.

66 Cities have always acted as the principal focus of political life.

67 When the kitchen is finished I'm going to focus my attention on the garden and get that sorted out.

68 Somehow, though, their latest album has a focus that the others have lacked.

69 They have narrowed the focus of the investigation, to concentrate on younger adults.

70 The talks will focus on economic development of the region.

71 He found he was now their main focus of attention.

72 Many of the papers focus their attention on the controversy surrounding the Foreign Secretary.

73 It was the main focus of attention at the meeting.

74 This case has brought the problem of drug abuse in schools into sharp focus.

75 We shall maintain our focus on the needs of the customer.

76 Police blundered by not releasing more details about the case to focus public interest.

77 When I got glasses suddenly the whole world came into focus .

78 The main focus of interest at the fashion show was Christian Lacroix's outrageous evening wear.

79 In today's lecture the focus will be on tax structures within the European Union.

80 A near - sighted person cannot focus accurately on distant objects.

81 She pushed aside her anger, forcing herself to focus on her work.

82 There is a need to sharpen the focus of the discussion.

83 The conference may help to focus attention on the economy.

84 The company will now focus its strategy on its core business areas.

85 She has that star quality that makes its possessor the focus of attention.

86 What we need now is a change of focus .

87 Thank you. Your view has helped to bring the historical side of the matter into focus.

88 Kelly couldn't focus his eyes well enough to tell if the figure was male or female.

89 The focus of recent research has been on environmental issues.

90 The eye will automatically focus on the small group in the foreground.

91 Think of some questions that will help focus the discussion.

92 The incident brought the problem of violence in schools into sharp focus.

93 The political slant at Focus can be described as centre-right.

94 Everyone is hoping that these hi-tech companies will turn out to be the Microsofts of the future. At the moment they look more like the focus of a speculative bubble.

95 It's important to focus on your strengths and to minimize your weaknesses.

96 If you focus the sun's rays through a magnifying glass on a dry leaf, it will start to burn.

97 She lost consciousness and when she came round she still lacked coherence and focus.

98 Our main focus is on helping people get back into work.

99 The children's faces are badly out of focus in the photograph.

100 Rest your eyes by letting them focus on distant objects.

101 In some of the pictures the subjects are out of focus while the background is sharp.

102 The programme was intended to focus attention on global warming.

103 In this stage of a rape case, the focus often shifts onto the victim and her conduct.

104 Today we're going to focus on the question of homeless people.

105 At this stage of the trial the defence lawyer often shifts the focus onto the victim.

106 Bring the object into focus if you want a sharp photograph.

107 The research project will focus on children's comprehension of pretence.

108 The media focus on politicians' private lives inevitably switches the attention away from the real issues.

109 Tenants who skip out on utility bills are the focus of a new law.

110 The focus has now shifted towards the problem of long-term unemployment.

111 This photograph looks funny; I think you forgot to focus the camera.

112 At the twiddle of a knob the operators can focus on a tiny amount of airspace or scan the whole area.

113 We need to get away from generalities and focus on the issues.

114 The committee's exclusive focus will be to improve public transportation.

115 Students should resist the temptation to focus on exams alone.

116 The focus of attention must now be how to improve the economy.

117 IBM has also shifted its focus from mainframes to personal computers.

118 He finds it hard to focus his thoughts on one thing for longer than five minutes.

119 The war in Bosnia had become the focus of media attention .

120 His eyes slowly began to focus on what looked like a small dark ball.

121 It took a few moments for her eyes to focus in the dark.

122 This aggression is the real issue the world should be concerned about. We want to keep that in focus.

123 Let your eyes focus on objects that are further away from you.

124 The industry needs to focus on what attracts customers.

125 I was too careless to really focus.

126 She is better able to focus on simpler pictures.

127 I planned to maintain a single-minded focus on my studies, to get through and excel-with blinders on.

128 Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror. Colin Powell 

129 Environmental groups worry about whether the new agency will focus on protecting the environment or on attracting tourists.

130 Prior to the invention of agriculture, game was both the primary diet and the focus of battles in the fields.

131 The truth was that by 1988 the television audience had entirely replaced the convention delegates as the focus of attention.

132 Helping young people cope with the impact of drug and alcohol abuse is the focus of the play Coming To.

133 They usually focus on one of three areas: normal eating; comfortable exercise; or improved body image.

134 This is because health and the quality and availability of health care often become the focus of community struggle.

135 This wind made it difficult to focus the flames of the burning tyres on precisely the right spot.

136 The focus of the drama shifts to discovering the dangers, and weighing up pros and cons of using the magic carpet.

137 It would evaporate in institutional amnesia. 15 Banana-Now Time Reengineering and redesign often focus on time compression.

138 Typically, managers focus on operating their area of assigned responsibility for efficiency, cost containment, and compliance with delivery schedules.

139 The restructuring will enable it to focus better on the two areas of its expertise in both wide area and local networks.

140 Nevertheless, some private members' bills have been important and become a focus for public attention.

141 If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow. Steve Jobs 

142 Some students may write about the avoidance of a major depression, others about the decision to focus on high employment.

143 Authority is the central focus of hierarchy, which is the chief coordinating mechanism of work organizations.

144 It is an independent, non-political body, which exists to focus graduate opinion.

145 Follow your vision and focus on your goals. Don’t wait for others to tell you which path to follow. Do what is best for you. What works for others may prove to be a disaster for you. Dr Roopleen 

146 She will have to focus on basketball, become single-minded about the season if she hopes to accomplish anything.

147 Mr Ringler says, adding that the company wants to bring more of a local focus to its international dealings.

147 try its best to collect and build good sentences.

148 Instead, they tend to focus on formal job descriptions, as these are key to performance appraisals.

149 I have no time to cry because my focus is to fly in the sky! RVM 

150 And two articles emphasising the importance of quality as applied to service issues - the new focus for the quality process.

151 A test as simple as a Detect Magic spell will show some stronger focus of magic above the ceiling of this chamber.

152 Increasingly the role of initial assessment will take on a new importance and will focus on centres' guidance structures and procedures.

153 When a moving object catches their attention, babies are apt to focus on it.

154 Anxious people become acutely sensitized to their bodies, noticing minor bodily changes upon which they focus.

155 To be successful, you need to keep an eye on what you want to achieve and not on what you already have. Just like while aiming, you focus on the target and not the tip of the arrow . Dr Roopleen 

156 The niceties gave way to steely-eyed focus and thrilling adventure built on absolute confidence.

157 Unfortunately, Roth did not care to focus on broader and more important issues about the fate of the seized-assets program itself.

158 In the way that you use a camera, you can focus your mind either on positive or negative factors.

159 Low inflation, competitive pressure and a continued focus on fiscal austerity depress projected raises, Hewitt says.

160 One focus within the countryside lobby was the agitation for a green belt around London.

161 This stage of experiment should focus and direct inquiry by providing some answers to old questions and suggesting some new questions.

162 The morass in Washington has gained even greater attention as bond investors have little economic news on which to focus.

163 Rather, the central focus of the magic is the weather-vane on top of the Great Tower.

164 The clinician's role is to bring into focus some areas that parents may not have thought affected the problem.

165 The VitaPro contract is among several awarded by the prison agency that are now the focus of state and federal criminal investigations.

166 For those afflicted by headache, many alternative therapy options are available which focus more on prevention rather than treatment.

167 Aesthetic attention, therefore, consists of engaging the focus of attention in a heightened sustained discrimination.

168 We tend to focus on nuclear but chemical and biological weapons, while not as devastating, would be plenty bad.

169 Your main efforts should now focus on establishing a firm home base.

170 Distance a locates the focus of the parabola on the x axis.

171 The more radical campaigners focus on poverty eradication and debt cancellation.

172 There is also the welcome addition of a focus ring on the lens.

173 The fate of the bears has become the focus for battles between conservationists and developers.

174 The central focus is the development of leisure interests during adolescence and the theoretical framework draws upon recent work in social cognition.

175 The search can then focus on identifying those who exhibit the necessary leadership capabilities and track record.

176 The focus today is not the predicted disappearance of order but the abundance of it throughout the natural world.

177 Managers can gauge the clarity of focus in a business development group by carrying out a simple exercise.

178 Part of it is the news focus(), and part of it is the cases themselves.

179 To provide a focus, Section 11. 4 describes three conceptual approaches to oil boiler conversion to gas-coal burning.

180 Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. Denis Waitley 

181 People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end. Tony Robbins 

182 Although speechreaders learn the necessity for keen attention and mental focus, it is not humanly possible to focus attention all day.

183 It is true that everyone has problems, and it is also true that every problem has a solution. If this is the reality of life, then why not focus on solutions rather than problems. RVM 

184 Perhaps the best bet would be to ignore the words altogether and focus on the music.

185 The first thing I saw when my eyes blinked into focus was an ant marching over a small stone.

186 You can be the centre of attention in a conversation but then the focus changes as new participants enter the dialogue.

187 I made two more visits to Knowlton, and it has now become a focus for my own particular pilgrimage.

188 The Supreme Court decision has given us an opportunity to focus our attention on the problem of end-of-life care.

189 They were advised to carry on as at present with these and focus in the meantime on the priority problem behaviour.

190 Appearing to move especially swiftly because of that media focus, moreover, police have already made arrests in her case.

191 The effect of this intense focus on modes of address is that personal pronouns become unusually prominent.

192 They would be available to share expertise, offer advice and provide an informed focus for locally based educational advance.

193 Models of interdependence focus on interstate relations but challenge the realist view of states as independent actors.

194 The show uses video surveillance footage, interviews and re-enactments to focus on lamebrain criminal acts.

195 But otherwise it really helped the child focus and do a lot better in school.

196 It would focus his attention where it should be focused: on finding Samantha.

197 Those external demands provide a time-frame within which you must organize the rest of your activities and focus your attention.

198 This leads him to focus on the twelfth century, and the mysteries connected with alchemy and the Order of the Temple.

199 The focus on the single political actor has analytic advantages, since data gathering and analysis can be precise and intensive.

200 Opinion polls and focus groups are Stone Age implements in the brave new world of interactivity just down the communications superhighway.

201 Any work undertaken on an individual basis should always focus attention on the broader social context in which the individual lives.

202 His academic interests focus on cancers of young adults, particularly lymphomas and testicular tumours.

203 Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. Denis Waitley 

204 Our strategy is to focus all our resources on the two core businesses of spirits and beers.

205 Mission-driven budgets relieve legislators of micromanagement decisions, freeing them to focus on the larger problems they were elected to solve.

206 Next Time A central focus of the next issues will be on communicating research.

207 Rather than focus on big leveraged buyouts, Ripplewood will primarily look at medium-size businesses with potential to export their products.

208 The central focus of all this railway activity was, however, the railway station.

209 When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams 

210 Does the whole conceptual perspective of the Monitor theory narrow down to a focus on filling in the blanks?

211 But its collapse had served to focus attention upon many of the tensions within the school system.

212 In recent years this has been brought into sharp focus with growing public concern for a healthier and safer environment.

213 Jones said the president will not only have more say over bills but more power to focus public attention on specific issues.

214 Our focus is on the convergence of business acumen, strategy, technology directions, and capital requirements.

215 The central focus of the analysis is therefore on developments in, and changes in the interrelationships between, sport and medicine.

216 The learning of mathematics has been a particular focus of attention.

217 Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires. Stephen Richards 

218 They also decided to focus most on mid-level associates and young partners.

219 The first is the ability to communicate: to find a theme, to focus on an agenda.

220 Yet because of their passive acceptance of the ministrations of their neighbours they become the focus of attention.

221 To accomplish that goal, the company intends to focus on global investments in exploration, pipeline and power projects.

222 We will examine this mechanism in detail in Chapter 22, when we focus on the balance of payments and exchange rates.

223 It will provide a comprehensive district-wide service for the first time, and act as a central focus for the community.

224 This is the composite word on the triangle which is the central focus of every Royal Arch chapter.

225 By which is meant that they have developed their ability to focus both senses and mind upon a thought process.

226 Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them. Stephen Richards 

227 The focus of the South Eastern canal network was London.

228 Mrs Chan, who epitomises the tradition, became a focus for his frustrations.

229 No wonder the train eventually became the focus of bandits, thieves and pickpockets.

230 The perspectives Rolle brings into focus stress the urgency of the situation.

231 Spring focus: Buck Martinez is moving from the broadcast booth to the manager's office with no previous experience.

232 Before Mungo and Emily could focus on it, Vic made as if to throw it into the air.

233 Children's behaviour problems become a focus of concern when the child is behaving inappropriately or excessively for their age.

234 In terms of technological progress,the public is slower than focus group. Toba Beta 

235 These qualities spring forth in every area of the movie and find their most brilliant focus in De Niro's performance.

236 As geology has become the focus of more attention, it has aroused the curiosity of young people about nature in general.

237 A dominant characteristic of the location-factor school is its focus on the particular features of areas in order to explain their relative fortunes.

238 Rocco Forte will concentrate and focus on building the businesses.

239 The part of the wood where we were had become the focus to which all the firing converged.

240 They focus on the family(), analysing both its internal structure and its functions for the wider society.

241 The focus of interest here is the extent to which the building societies are likely to make inroads into traditional banking business.

242 Henry Fan, managing director of Citic, said the company is changing its focus as it shifts assets.

243 In the other; her ability to focus and pay attention is very strong.

244 Election Focus: There are some you win ... Apart from the obvious ones, who else did well and badly last week?

245 Both focus on affective rather than cognitive factors as central to the process.

246 At this point in the analysis the more narrow focus on production merges with a second broader area of interest.

247 Again, we must focus on structural, ongoing deficits,(http:///focus.html) rather than temporary blips that naturally accompany recessions.

248 And here we shall focus primarily on the role of the post-Renaissance author, the author born of Cartesian dualism.

249 Thus, arguments for participatory democracy focus on the inactivity of the large majority of the people in the political arena today.

250 Spring focus: 2B Chuck Knoblauch claims he received help during the offseason with his mental block on routine throws.

251 They act as a catalyst for a company and help it to focus on a higher level of performance.

252 If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country. Malala Yousafzai 

253 The arguments therefore tend to focus on three borderline questions: What is the minimum fault required for conviction of murder?

254 Chick said Saturday, adding that in retrospect, the focus on HMOs alone was too narrow.