Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [adj] attention " in BNC.

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1 ‘ This only aroused so much attention because of the press reports that we were meeting the Broederbond . ’
2 It is surprising that in his time and ever since , his culpability has received so little attention .
3 Maggie had never received so much attention .
4 Perhaps the reason that tail shapes have wrongly received so much attention in the past is that they are the most obviously visible difference between boards .
5 The causes of economic and employment decline in the cities have been the subjects of the most extensive studies — no other area of urban research has received so much attention .
6 The reason that it has received so much attention is not primarily that it is of practical importance ( although it has applications , e.g. Sections 26.2 , 26.5 , 26.6 ) , but rather that it has become a context for the development of ideas about the consequences of instability and evolution towards turbulent motion .
7 Never in the history of human seduction has one man given so much attention to the cause of international womanhood as the former roadsweeper from Milton .
8 It seems doubtful that any other photographer has given so much attention to the condition of trees growing in close proximity to urban man .
9 It may well be the reason why this motility pattern has previously attracted so little attention .
10 And the issue is not simply that of deteriorating staff-student ratios , which has attracted so much attention , but at least as much a question of capital investment .
11 Given the pre-eminence of the multi-national corporation in international development , it is surprising that it is accorded so little attention in development literature … .
12 ‘ The constructors and team-managers have enjoyed for some years now such unrealistic power and influence , have commanded so much attention , they have begun to think of themselves and their cars as the stars .
13 Though many commentators drew attention to the job-displacing tendencies of microelectronics technology it is likely that the reason their gloomy forecasts were paid so much attention was because unemployment had been rising fairly fast in most industrialised countries following the two oil price hikes in the 1970s and the consequent world economic recession .
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