Example sentences of "be [verb] more attention " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black pupils are given more attention by teachers only in terms of discipline and punishment . |
| 2 | If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit . |
| 3 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
| 4 | He had been paying more attention than she thought . |
| 5 | There is evidence of a growing interest in payment systems in a variety of quarters , e.g. amongst economists there is renewed interest in the link between productivity and the way labour is paid ; management theorists are paying more attention to new forms of payment within their overall interest in making in making firms more responsive ; and amongst managers and government officials there has been considerable interest expressed in performance-related pay , merit-pay and profit-sharing . |
| 6 | Riding 's governing bodies should be paying more attention to clothing as ‘ equipment ’ important for safety and performance instead of for appearance 's sake . |
| 7 | Adrian , who professes to prefer football to cricket , will certainly be paying more attention to the game from now on , particularly as we are giving him a year 's membership to the Young Cricketer Bunbury as our Young Cricketer of the Month . |
| 8 | Members of the Labour Party were paying more attention to the Communist Party than for many years , largely as a result of the unique impact of foreign affairs . |
| 9 | actually no that was the night she was really pissed off because erm people were paying more attention to me than they were to her , I do n't know why , it 's because I decide that I 'm gon na be really outgoing and I really do and I was really loud and really boisterous and she 's quite resigned like that and she thought I sh bit shagged off with me and then like I was doing , there was this really good looking bloke and he was like we , we 'd given each other eyes over the bar in this pub and Lottie goes well if you do n't hurry up with him I 'm gon na go and have him , if you do n't hurry up , you know , and just like marched over I said Charlotte give me a break |
| 10 | Jean-Claude was deeply critical of all the French composers of his generation , who were receiving more attention than he was . |
| 11 | Lastly , the microscopic area of garden surrounding the factory is to receive more attention with the spring planting of shrubs in the area alongside Glenpatrick Road . |
| 12 | It 's the sort of thing it is easy to observe if you stand around in the garage during practice or generally stick around a team , watching who gets the first briefing , who is paying more attention to whom . |
| 13 | Appraisal is attracting more attention because ( as we have seen in Chapters 2 and 3 ) accountability has become politically fashionable . |
| 14 | Wainfleet had not avoided the slur that Wickham was giving more attention to his private life than his professional and this accounted for the lack of progress in apprehending MacQuillan 's killer . |
| 15 | Yet by 1984 , when the House of Commons Social Services Committee reported its investigation on Children in Care , they commented : Since their report was published more attention has been paid to dissemination , particularly by the Department of Health ( formerly DHSS ) but , as some of the writers of this book will show , there is considerable unevenness in knowledge about children in care , and in the research which is carried out to provide more knowledge . |