Example sentences of "attention to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of writing , the coordinating committee is giving its attention to future INSET developments in which the panel may be involved . |
| 2 | Added to which , the world insists on greater attention to environmental performance , ‘ and that means our operating and capital costs are rising every day ’ . |
| 3 | However , the IEA is now turning its attention to environmental auditing and has launched a national Environmental Auditors Registration Board to provide professional accreditation for environmental auditors along with a set of draft criteria against which the quality of the environmental statements produced for the EC eco-audit scheme can be measured . |
| 4 | Boserup on the other hand gives explicit attention to environmental degradation , but in such a way as to suggest that in some cases soil erosion actually induces desirable agricultural innovations . |
| 5 | His artistic career began with a series of paintings based on the thirteenth-century sculpture of the elegant countess of Uta on the façade of Naumburg cathedral , a photograph of which had been lent to him by the young artist Vlady , but in the late fifties he turned his attention to Spanish art . |
| 6 | Lamb claimed in the Mirror that he called the umpire 's attention to alleged ball tampering by Pakistan at Lord 's . |
| 7 | At high speed , the Alpine feels rock steady which suggests careful attention to aerodynamic tuning and it is only at lower speeds , over give-and-take roads , that the price of the rear engine layout has to be paid with momentary vagueness in the steering when the car crests a brow . |
| 8 | The more enquiring ventured further afield and a young Yorkshireman , Thomas Johnson , apprenticed to a Mr William Bell in 1620 , paid particular attention to botanical discovery . |
| 9 | Few people paid much attention to Easy Rider until the previews , and slowly word got around that Fonda and Hopper had produced a very good film . |
| 10 | Do you believe that German-speaking art historians will increasingly turn their attention to home-grown art ? |
| 11 | The failing of the more usual critique lies in its insufficient attention to empirical practice . |
| 12 | They found this unsatisfactory because ‘ it did not direct attention to governmental manipulation of transnational relations … [ and they have ] grown progressively more interested in the interaction between governments and transnational society and in transnational coalitions among subunits of governments ’ ( Keohane and Nye , 1973 , p vjj ) .2 |
| 13 | However disagreeable pain may be , it is essential because it draws attention to bodily damage . |
| 14 | Some things like our looks can not easily be changed , but our appearance can be greatly improved simply through giving attention to good grooming and intelligently selecting our clothes . |
| 15 | There seems to be general agreement in Oxfordshire 's educational establishment that parents wishing to assess a school should n't pay too much attention to broad brush statistics like those released today . |
| 16 | If we restrict our attention to broad employment trends — the growth of employment in the service industries , the increase in white-collar occupations and the rise of professional workers — then Britain , too , has a majority of its labour force in service employment . |
| 17 | Such a scheme clearly directs attention to certain research problems , the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes amongst the white population , or the way in which the religious beliefs of ethnic minorities impede adaptation to the British education system . |
| 18 | Land suggested that Alvey 's group did not consult enough of the people who would use advanced computers ; that it had paid too little attention to international collaboration ; and that the committee focused on too narrow an area of activity . |
| 19 | Davies ( 1989 ) sees these as being those courses which pay insufficient attention to practical probation issues , such as resource management , penology , criminology , criminal law , principles of sentencing and other issues . |
| 20 | Mis–perceptions tend to occur when an individual 's limited capacity to give attention to competing information under stress produces tunnel vision or when a preconceived diagnosis blocks out sources of inconsistent information . |
| 21 | The Body Shop had brought a complaint against the Board , claiming that it was prejudging the Commission 's view , and that it was paying too much attention to industrial lobby groups and not enough to the concerns of consumers and environmental organisations . |
| 22 | Some element of planning and/or deliberate regulation is evident in many settlements , and so we must pay attention to regular croft and property arrangements and consistent front and rear property alignments . |
| 23 | It is this careful attention to traditional dance rhythms which is so important to the style of both ballets , although neither can be called a character or national work ( see page 28 ) . |
| 24 | Engineers should pay particular attention to effective feedback on incidents and ‘ near misses ’ , so that lessons can be learned . |
| 25 | Finally , although this is not yet a specific NRC rule , the commission is directing considerable attention to overall risk assessment carried out for specific plant and sites . |
| 26 | To put it no more strongly , it has not been proved beyond doubt that self-paced learning is the most effective , and it is odd that a movement claiming to " individualize learning " has paid such scant attention to individual personality and other differences among learners in its practice . |
| 27 | It was this ability to encourage , to amuse and draw attention to individual potential , however slight , which enabled him to make such an impact on the teaching of art in the schools of the West Riding . |
| 28 | All these strands pay attention to European experience as well as British practice . |
| 29 | Left to their own devices , most roses tend to develop new growth into which they direct their sap and energy , bear bloom , and which then — as it becomes old and tired — gradually either becomes starved , by-passed , neglected and finally aborted as the plant constantly turns its attention to new growth , or it develops a barky exterior layer as it settles down to becoming no more than a main road communicating between the raw material goods received from the warehouse in the soil and the production factory upstairs — quite often , a very long way upstairs . |
| 30 | A case now before America 's Supreme Court is drawing attention to such bias . |