Example sentences of "have [verb] much attention " in BNC.

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1 This organ has received much attention from surgeons , who are confronted with the problems which arise when the prostate enlarges late in life and obstructs the urinary channel which passes through it .
2 In the last five years evaluation has received much attention in UK academic libraries and particularly in parts of the research projects sponsored by the BLR&DD .
3 There is no doubt that the customer expectations of service have grown significantly in recent years and the whole subject of quality ( what the customer requires ) has received much attention , from management gurus to front line operators .
4 ( Aims and methods ) In early childhood , children grow and learn within their families and the importance of the family as a context for child development has received much attention .
5 These differ from the previous set by allowing ; the case b = 8/3 has received much attention .
6 A problem concerning time and the calendar that has attracted much attention in recent years is the precise date when the Iranians adopted the Egyptian ‘ vague ’ , or civil , calendar of 365 days .
7 One particular experience , which has attracted much attention , has been systematically evaluated and has been replicated , through the work of the Kent University Personal Social Services Research Unit .
8 A hard-to-define British artist , Long has attracted much attention in America with his use of stones and landscape .
9 In New York , where he will exhibit with new dealer , Jay Gorney , in the autumn , he has attracted much attention for his ‘ Restraints ’ and ‘ Workbenches ’ which were shown at last year 's Whitney Biennial .
10 Their public polemic , in the early months of 1341 , about royal authority and ecclesiastical obligations , by its notorious and indecorous vehemence , has attracted much attention from historians , but the ideas enunciated are less notable for themselves than for signifying divisions among the clergy over church and state relations , an ambivalence even more sensationally witnessed in the Becket conflict in the twelfth century and in the Hunne affair in the early sixteenth .
11 There is some doubt about whether historical data do show the existence of a regular cycle of approximately fifty years , but the idea has attracted much attention in the 1980s .
12 In the face of this major obstacle , the miscellany of other decrees — no archdeaconries to be farmed out , no priests to attend drinking-parties , no benefices to be sold , no monks to be godfathers , male hair-cuts to leave ears visible , sodomites to be excommunicated , etc. — could not have had much attention paid to them .
13 I admit I might not have paid much attention to an anonymous delivery girl , but they do n't normally bolt when they see me , which attracted my attention .
14 Whether there is a percolation of water seawards in the beach material is another possibility , which does not seem to have received much attention , but it is unlikely that such a form of movement would be capable of dealing with the total volume of water involved .
15 See opp. ) from Patrick Blair , a scientist whose Botanick Essays ( 1720 ) had received much attention .
16 Since the Bookman 's capture , nobody had paid much attention to any of his ideas and the Headmaster had taken over all his plans .
17 For a moment , Miranda 's eyes sparkled : the little sister — number three in the nursery — to whom no one had paid much attention , was now , at the age of twenty-six , clearly a number one in the business world !
18 Are dependent conditionals to be characterized more generally in terms of two categories to which Philosophers have given much attention , those of subjunctive and counterfactual statements ?
19 Such express declarations have come to be known as Living Wills , and have received much attention in the United States and elsewhere .
20 Their education and social policies are undoubtedly their most important legacy , and have attracted much attention and some emulation in other countries of the South .
21 Concentrating on the modern and contemporary prints : Lumley Cazalet will be showing prints by Frink , Marini , Picasso ( from the ‘ 156 ’ series ) , and works by contemporary printmakers ; Paul McCarron 's stand includes an impression of Whistler 's ‘ Weary ’ at $20,000 ; Lott and Gerrish are showing 200 British woodcuts as well as wood-engravings by Gibbings and Edward Calvert ; Marlborough Graphics have Paula Rego 's latest ‘ Peter Pan ’ suite , Bill Jacklin 's ‘ Coney Island Suite ’ and new work by Ken Kiff ; Jeffrey Kaplow of Proofs Ltd is showing ‘ Luce Myres de Face ’ by Lautrec ( W.121 ) , a rare proof printed in sanguine , priced at £20,000 , together with works by Redon , Munch and others ; Waddington Graphics are devoting most of their space to their own publications — Dine , Motherwell , Hamilton , Blake and Hodgkin — but will have some prints by Picasso and Goya ; Pratt Contemporary Art will again be showing works by Ana Maria Pacheco whose prints have attracted much attention at past fairs , together with new etchings and monotypes by Susan Adams , Denise Walker and Julian Grater .
22 Carbonate minerals give bright and stable luminescence at low accelerating voltages , so limestones and dolomites have attracted much attention from sedimentologists working with CL ( Amieux , 1982 ) .
23 Research and development into compensatory educational programmes , referred to earlier , have focused much attention on the issues without necessarily resolving them .
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