Example sentences of "[adj] attention to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when FISA , the sport 's organizing body , helped by the drivers ' own association , had belatedly begun to pay some attention to safety in a notably risky sport , Chapman 's remarks showed a callousness towards his drivers — and by implication , towards other human beings — that I found it hard to admire . |
| 2 | Yet here was her grandson fending for himself , leaning amiably against a kitchen cupboard and eating a self-made sandwich , while his mother gave infinite attention to food for women who should have been at home attending to their own children . |
| 3 | The evidence before our eyes is her faultless attention to detail in these exquisite flower decorations . |
| 4 | Clearly , the call for increased vigilance is a timely one , but it should be extended to the monitoring of patterns of resistance to single as well as to multiple drugs , and it should give extra attention to resistance in traditional high risk groups such as immigrants as well as in HIV patients . |
| 5 | I believe that there has been too much attention to ordering of content — which is an easy job — and too little in considering the process — which is a very difficult one . |
| 6 | Never has there been a gas cooker with so many refinements , so many innovations , so much attention to detail as the new Moffat Discovery . |
| 7 | Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context . |
| 8 | The play is set in 1850 and the set reflected good attention to period with well chosen props . |
| 9 | Behind the wide , full mouth , the arrogant stare of the eyes , the dark , crimped , Pre-Raphaelite hair streaming in the wind , was a careful delineation of the headland , its objects disposed and painted with the meticulous attention to detail of a sixteenth-century primitive ; the Victorian rectory , the ruined abbey , the half-demolished pillbox , the crippled trees , the small white mill like a child 's toy and , gaunt against a flaming evening sky , the stark outline of the power station . |
| 10 | In contrast , a distinguished American book illustrator , Uri Shulevitz , gives considerable attention to readability in his study Writing with pictures ( 1985 ) . |
| 11 | The ‘ two Johns ’ , both from Bellaghy , have paid diligent attention to detail in their team 's preparations and their track record with under-age sides is enviable . |
| 12 | Riding 's governing bodies should be paying more attention to clothing as ‘ equipment ’ important for safety and performance instead of for appearance 's sake . |
| 13 | But a bit more attention to detail at the spraying or finishing stage would add a touch more panache . |
| 14 | Walker ( 1981 ) draws particular attention to poverty in old age , arguing that it is ‘ primarily a function of low economic and social status prior to retirement and the depressed social status of the retired , and , secondly of the relatively low level of state benefits ’ . |
| 15 | This has been achieved with close attention to aerodynamics of the whole vehicle with careful control of cooling airflow and a smooth floorpan with integrated exhaust system and fuel tank . |
| 16 | The Resource Options Programme is concerned to analyse the scope for and constraints upon ethnicity as a principle of economic organisation and group identity , paying special attention to localism as an alternative principle by which groups may organise or identify for particular purposes . |