Example sentences of "attention [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day there might be a bleary-eyed buzzard with his wing taped up in a splint , looking very sorry for himself ; the next there might be a baby sparrow basking under a red heat-lamp , recuperating from the attentions of a cat . |
| 2 | White gloves are de rigueur , and there is a strong hint of the fussing attentions of a lady 's maid above the luxe silks and satins , gabardines and cashmeres . |
| 3 | ‘ Why should I want someone like you , whose squalid dreams of passion can encompass no more than the petty attentions of a man like Jones ? |
| 4 | If and when you find a suitable mate , then a divider will be an absolute must — probably for some months , unless she ripens and appears to be ready to spawn , in which case she may welcome the attentions of a male — but do n't bank on it ; any divider-out time should be strictly supervised . |
| 5 | ‘ You can come in to see her , young man , but she needs the attentions of a doctor — and that 's what she 's going to get . |
| 6 | The headline-making survey , which questioned 18,876 people , also found that men between the ages of 25-34 say they have enjoyed the attentions of an average 10.3 women . |
| 7 | She felt tired , even exhausted from the powerful attentions of the sun . |
| 8 | Chesarynth did n't miss the impersonal attentions of the technician and the nurse , but the magic box stayed firmly where it was in the suite in the house on the ‘ dark ’ side of the moon . |
| 9 | The host species on the other hand could survive being parasitised since only a small proportion suffer the attentions of the cuckoo , and most of these will breed again to produce their own offspring . |
| 10 | In some respects , however , Herculaneum is even better-preserved than Pompeii , although it did not escape the attentions of the treasure seekers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , and it has furnished an even greater wealth of detail than Pompeii on the day-to-day life of a flourishing Roman town . |
| 11 | The same potential exists in rape films which confirm ‘ macho ’ myths about the sexiness of male power and aggression by suggesting the invariable gratitude of rape victims for the satisfying , liberating attentions of the rapist . |
| 12 | According to Institute Council member and chairman of the Professional Conduct Directorate Pat Brenan , the Big Six are now so huge and control such a large share of the UK listed company audit market that any behaviour judged to be anti-competitive would invite the attentions of the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 13 | By the time the express clattered into Zabajjkal'sk , on the Russian side of the border , the attentions of the conductress coupled with her own resolve had prepared the woman for the formalities . |
| 14 | The fact that she had expected to be cosseted by the subjects of her own journalistic attentions in the past had made her no warier of the reporters she was inviting . |
| 15 | Being a 110 per cent cricketer he wanted to leave his problems 5,000 miles away in England and bury his attentions in the game that has won him glory . |
| 16 | You can concentrate your attentions on the feel and fit rather than any corrective properties of the shoe . |
| 17 | Turning her attentions to a community , Trotter Street , her two new books are about the arrival of a real baby around the time of the Street 's nativity play and the building of an extension on to the house of the boisterous Pattersons . |
| 18 | Not content with this , they then turned their attentions to the runway and ‘ bombed ’ it with the full venom of coloured water from their tanks ! |
| 19 | But where other people would probably have covered the past in a coat of paint , the building 's new young occupants , the Stewarts have happily let it be and turned their decorative attentions to the interior instead . |
| 20 | In fact , the Generalísimo 's unprecedented attentions to the visitor were no more , but also no less , than a lavish propaganda exercise designed as a show of political strength to conceal or shore up the underlying economic weakness and isolation of the regime . |
| 21 | In opposition , and to some extent isolated at a time of political consensus , Conservative educators like Professor Brian Cox and Dr Rhodes Boyson attracted considerable press attention through the publication of a series of ‘ Black Papers on Education ’ . |
| 22 | In the person of Master Humphrey , Dickens acknowledges in The Old Curiosity Shop ( 1840–1 ) that it was external objects , rather than people , that first captured his attention as a writer . |
| 23 | To date there is little evidence of this happening within the NHS but it must soon occupy our attention as a matter of urgency . |
| 24 | The Campaign won media attention as a result of its outspoken criticism of the state of British beer , backed by punchy public relations , marches , demonstrations and the launch of the Good Beer Guide , which listed those pubs that still sold ‘ the real thing ’ . |
| 25 | He deals much more with national issues rather than local ones and has received less media attention as a result . |
| 26 | The increasing demand for medical care on the part of the middle classes combined with a growing perception of medical attention as a status symbol by those below , also added to doctors ' social power . |
| 27 | Later on he would utter cries for help and expect to be nursed back to health by sympathetic doctors , demanding attention as a substitute for love and taking masochistic pleasure in its denial . |
| 28 | Much of your attention as a manager can sensibly be directed to learning how to simplify , organize and present data for descriptive purposes . |
| 29 | Sharpe translated the crowd 's attention as the derision due to a cuckold and , in that misapprehension , his temper snapped . |
| 30 | Delysia Jacobs had the title part in Primavera , and Renée Feller also attracted attention as the bird . |