The lens focuses rays of light. Nothing else focuses the mind like a deadline. Sentences like these use an ordinary transitive active-voice construction. The subject represents a semantic actor or agent. The direct object represents a semantic patient. These semantic roles still exist in passive-voice constructions of this verb. More @Wikipedia
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