Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] was pay [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much attention was paid to the precise angling of this key element in the Continental R's body concept : it comes across in the metal as very much better proportioned than the photographs suggest . |
| 2 | Specific criticisms included the view that coverage of Business Questions ( coming immediately after the Prime Minister on Thursdays ) was excessive ; that there was too much coverage of points of order ; that too much attention was paid to the confrontation between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition ; that not enough attention was paid to legislation ; and that more should be shown of the nuts and bolts of the House 's work . |
| 3 | It was argued that there was considerable ‘ wastage ’ of talent , and much attention was paid to the ‘ neglected educational territory ’ of pupils who left school at 15 to follow a craft or technical , rather than an academic , career . |
| 4 | The new seeds were a scientific success but in their introduction to the LDCs , too little attention was paid to the social and political context . |
| 5 | The understandable concentration of research on the needy and on the failures of community support meant that little attention was paid to the positive contribution to the community made by many older people in the form of services to family and community . |
| 6 | But little attention was paid to the cultural and communication dimensions related to this process . |
| 7 | However , it was motherhood rather than the needs of individual mothers which evoked concern and relatively little attention was paid to the conditions faced by working class wives in their daily lives . |
| 8 | Little attention was paid to the individuals within organisations in terms of their beliefs , values and their relations with each other . |
| 9 | By the mid-century economic considerations were more important , and although roads continued to be built , more attention was paid to the construction of railway lines . |
| 10 | If more attention was paid to the basics and less to incorporating an impressive number of zips , these trousers would be even better value-for-money . |
| 11 | Much more attention was paid to the North American seacoast , where English colonies doubled in number and were treated more seriously by London than ever before . |
| 12 | Until recently most attention was paid to the island 's goat population , but now pigs are the first priority . |
| 13 | Although , at the time , most attention was paid to the misalliance of old-left peaceniks and right-wing neo-isolationists who opposed the military build-up , there were some pretty strange pacts , too , among those who supported it . |