Example sentences of "[be] [verb] much attention " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of the future of formal education , priority has been given to achievement of non-racial education , and neither questions of female access and achievement , nor the gendered content of educational materials , have been given much attention . |
| 2 | Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer . |
| 3 | She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side . |
| 4 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 5 | For the past few minutes she had not really been paying much attention to the direction and she looked round worriedly . |
| 6 | No one seemed to be paying much attention to the backgrounds . |
| 7 | The campaign 's just starting , and already it 's generating much attention … proof say De Montfort University authorities that it 's money well spent |
| 8 | ‘ No , but I ca n't say that I was paying much attention . ’ |
| 9 | Born Yevonde Cumbers in Streatham Common , London , in 1893 , she had a fairly conventional start to her career , serving an apprenticeship to the society photographer Lallie Charles , but by the early Twenties had build up a substantial portrait practice of her own and was attracting much attention as an eloquent advocate of the cause of women 's photography . |