Example sentences of "attention to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea was to assess our ability to present a speech , paying close attention to vocabulary , non-verbal communication ( body language and tone of voice ) and keeping a sense of what the audience is thinking . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Useful as the ideas and examples assembled in Massey 's ( 1984 ) work on this topic are , her approach pays too little attention to culture . |
| 4 | Fitzgerald and Sim 's British Prisons ( 1992 ) is another example of recent radical analysis which pays at least as much attention to ideology as to economics . |
| 5 | Some pots can look rather sparse at first but with good compost , regular feeding and attention to watering , they soon fill out into good-sized plants . |
| 6 | He emphasised the need for benefits of all kinds to be fairly distributed and attacked the dispensing of glasnost' in measured doses ; he drew attention to nationality differences and called for the ‘ perfection [ in other words , reform ] of the electoral system ’ , a point the General Secretary himself first developed in his speech to the Central Committee the following year . |
| 7 | The Eighth Finance Commission in 1985 recommended the allocation of more funds for the restructuring of prison buildings , and the Ministry of Welfare put forward a plan for improving the welfare of prisoners , including some attention to after-care , under the Seventh Five Year Plan . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , there is no systematic , regular measurement available of attention to TV commercials ( or , indeed , to TV programmes ) , so there is no reliable quantification of the ‘ attention factor ’ , and our knowledge of how it varies by type or audience or time of day ( or any other variable ) is fairly rudimentary . |
| 9 | We have paid considerable attention to cost-reduction strategies , as probably befits a book addressed primarily to financial experts . |
| 10 | The project seeks to combine attention to economics and the human advantages of the redesigning of work . |
| 11 | Taking tap water samples from each of the ten water authorities , he packaged them in the form of a consumer product as ‘ a response to privatisation , and to draw attention to contamination in our water supplies . ’ |
| 12 | Marines need special attention to water quality . |
| 13 | Although requiring constant attention to water management , it provided a geographical base for the infant kingdom superior to that offered by the bleak , intermontane valleys inland , across the high limestone ranges of the Velebit mountains . |
| 14 | This auto-haemorrhage , as it is called , is an astonishing refinement of the death-feigning strategy , implying that predators pay a great deal of attention to minute details of their prey 's condition . |
| 15 | Galerie Pels-Leusden turns its attention to painting by the mentally ill with an exhibition of large-format works in coloured pencil by Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern . |
| 16 | We will turn this responsibility over to them and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We choose every item personally as though shopping for ourselves , paying particular attention to practicality and originality . ’ |
| 18 | In contrast , a distinguished American book illustrator , Uri Shulevitz , gives considerable attention to readability in his study Writing with pictures ( 1985 ) . |
| 19 | If filmed destruction to draw attention to expendability seems to hard to bear , there was one other radical solution canvassed at Eindhoven and that was terminal neglect . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Careful attention to engine mounting and sound insulation means that the large engine sounds almost as though it belongs to the car in front — a remote burbling noise that seems to have travelled a long way before it reaches the driver 's ear . |
| 22 | Despite this increased attention to empowerment , there is unfortunately great disparity in the prevailing definitions , and an equal lack of clarity on how to measure its impact on a population 's health . |
| 23 | Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework . |
| 24 | Let us accept the shifting of taste , and let us show our faith in the Great Tradition by teaching as much as possible of the literature we admire , without worrying too much about canons and with attention to variety rather than moral unity . |
| 25 | He gives , perhaps as a result of a Weberian starting-point to much of his analysis , great attention to bureaucracy and the extent to which populations are very directly monitored and controlled by those with power . |
| 26 | At this time the Salmon and Gluckstein families , successful tobacco merchants , were turning their attention to catering , seeing the need for good , cheap , clean places to get a cup of tea . |
| 27 | In formulating the diet I paid particular attention to moisture , realizing that , after all , the inclusion of fat in our daily diet added considerably to its palatability . |
| 28 | You will pay special attention to preparation , being thoroughly familiar with the matters to be discussed . |
| 29 | It was then that choreographers turned their attention to music already available , very often because financial difficulties prevented any approach being made to a living composer . |
| 30 | But there needs to be a commitment on the part of the college or course to give more time and greater attention to music 's role in worship . |