main focus
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmainandfocus
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main
adjective[before noun]
uk/meɪn/us/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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focus
noun
uk/ˈfəʊ.kəs/us/ˈfoʊ.kəs/
the main or central point of something, especially of attention ...
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(Definition ofmainandfocusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmain focus
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Two of the three teachers involved were also interviewed, though themainfocusof the project is on students' views.
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Although ourmainfocusis on corn yield, we also report the results for prices for completeness.
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Special attention is given to vibratory projects which have been theirmainfocussince 1993.
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Themainfocus, again, is on the connection between structural rules and sharing.
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Although its title suggests a more ambitious research agenda, themainfocusof the book is restricted to social rights litigation.
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Themainfocusof the semantic analysis was the occurrence of concrete nouns and action\\activity verbs in the caregiver input.
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Themainfocusof interest in these designs is the presence of pathological or extreme characteristics in participants who are clinically recovered.
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Theirmainfocuswas girls' preferences, and they sought to determine whether the rise of feminism and affirmative action had produced any effect.
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Commissioning was one of several areas explored within the study and is themainfocusof this paper.
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Themainfocusof the author's research, and thus the book, concerns older people labelled as having life-long learning difficulties or intellectual impairments.
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Themainfocushas been on the human dimensions of political conflicts and on people's lived experiences of dislocation and destitution.
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As regards the maps, which ought to be themainfocusof an atlas, accuracy has not been a high priority.
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Furthermore, ourmainfocuswas on the examination of the results of participation versus non-participation on incorporation in the labour market.
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Themainfocushere is to contrast probabilities of invasion of self-compatibility alleles in gynodioecious and hermaphrodite populations.
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Originally, themainfocusof this research community was on systems where agents interact in a physical environment, such as robots.
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In some instances, this accompanied other practical help, but sometimes it was themainfocusof the contact.
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The soldiers interviewed were selected to include a variety of experiences; themainfocushas, however, been on ' ordinary soldiers'.
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Ourmainfocusis on investments held against technical provisions and investments held against the capital base.
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