Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [det] [noun sg] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would be quite happy to pass on this information to persons planning on visiting and/or diving in the Florida Keys . |
| 2 | Though ostensibly child-centred , it paid rather more attention to teachers and classrooms than to children 's learning . |
| 3 | In contrast with earlier enquiries — especially Beckford — they were criticized for paying too little attention to parents and for having ‘ a strong focus on the needs of the child in isolation from the family ’ ( DOH , 1988 , para. 4. 57 ) . |
| 4 | Either way the notion is both ill-informed and ridiculous and it comes from paying too much attention to newspapers like the Guardian . |
| 5 | Common sense ( or observation ) may show that the pattern of behaviour requires the forecaster to give progressively less weight to values the further back in time they occur . |
| 6 | If I sometimes recognized this , I blamed my Aunt Lilian who had brought me up to give too much importance to careers and causes and things of the mind , simply because she had never known , herself , any of the pleasures of the body , and had , as a result , made me feel guilty now . |
| 7 | Blacks were subject to far more drastic inequalities than were Catholics , therefore civil rights made far more difference to blacks than to Catholics . |
| 8 | The first split occurred as early as 1948 when Yugoslavia was denounced by the Soviet Union and its allies for supposedly giving too much favour to peasants at the expense of the working class and for exercising party authority in an insufficiently decisive manner . |
| 9 | But the " public figure " doctrine denies virtually any protection to persons who are prominent in public affairs , simply because of that fact . |
| 10 | It was true that the press gave far more attention to shortcomings than had been the case in the recent past , but those shortcomings were a feature of life itself and would not disappear if the newspapers simply ignored them . |
| 11 | I did not become a Labour Member of Parliament to hand over all power to bankers . |