Example sentences of "attracted a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Democracy Wall ’ immediately attracted a wide cross-section of people . |
| 2 | The senior boys ' race has also attracted a strong entry , including the former English Schools 3,000 metres track champion Michael Threadgill , of Middlesbrough and Cleveland , who faces opposition from Chester-le-Street 's Steve Scott and Phil Solomon , of Sunderland . |
| 3 | Schaumberg , Illinois-based Motorola Inc has announced new software that it hopes will form the standard for seamlessly integrating disparate wireless and wired data networks ( CI No 2,158 ) , and seems to have attracted a broad base of support . |
| 4 | A conference on AIDS has attracted a good response from businessmen in the Alton area . |
| 5 | The presence of Asian women advice workers has attracted a good response from the Asian community and the informality is attracting more family and personal enquiries of the sort that people may have felt uncomfortable about bringing previously . |
| 6 | However , its involvement in the conflict in Nicaragua , acting as the main host country to the Contras , has attracted a good deal of US aid and military personnel and has led to the increasing militarization of society . |
| 7 | Balance chairs have also attracted a good deal of interest . |
| 8 | It is an excellent establishment and has attracted a good deal of support and resources from the private sector . |
| 9 | The increasing though still very minimal panicipation of women in managerial , technical and higher professional occupations within the corporation has already attracted a good deal of attention , but there is little research specifically on the phenomenon of the female salariat in TNCs in the Third World ( see Garnsey and Paukert , 1987 , pp.57–67 ) . |
| 10 | The case of Nigeria has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in this respect and is worth looking at more closely . |
| 11 | Nicholson , at this point , was in the news through the acclaim being bestowed upon him for Easy Rider , and his first taste of stardom was received with some apprehension ; his on-screen connections with marijuana and LSD also attracted a great deal of media coverage ; serious press interviews , with him personally as the focus and centre of attention , were also unfamiliar territory into which he ventured nervously , almost unsure of what he was going to say and how he was going to express his feelings and opinions ; he had plenty , and serious ones at that . |
| 12 | Since it first appeared , Althusser 's work has attracted a great deal of attention , and his opponents have focussed in particular on his holist stance . |
| 13 | Rousseau as a theorist of democracy has attracted a great deal of hostile commentary , in particular from writers who see " totalitarian " implications in Du Contrat Social , or even a blueprint for what has been termed " totalitarian democracy " . |
| 14 | The general practice fundholding scheme , which was introduced as part of the package of organisational reforms to the NHS in April 1991 , has attracted a great deal of comment . |
| 15 | Her importance as a future Queen Consort naturally attracted a great deal of attention in 1980 and through to that summer of 1981 . |
| 16 | Free range chicken production has recently attracted a great deal of interest from our friends in Brussels and for months now a battle royal has been going on to tie up the system of rearing birds to a ‘ given ’ free range name . |
| 17 | These classes are widely known by the label ‘ comprador ’ though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism . |
| 18 | Over the last two decades the study of code switching has attracted a great deal of interest from researchers working in different areas of linguistics . |
| 19 | Sir Steven Brown , the President of the High Court family division said the case involving the children had attracted a great deal of publicity . |
| 20 | One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers . |
| 21 | Macdonald also remarks a contrario , that " while the cheapness of women 's work as compositors in Edinburgh seems to have attracted a certain class of work from London , the men 's success in keeping up wages in London bookbinding does not seem to have driven bookbinding to the provinces " . |
| 22 | The town of Telford has attracted a new £65,000,000 car components factory which will create 450 new jobs . |
| 23 | It has attracted a growing number of UK corporates , including British Steel , British Aerospace , BT and Mercury . |
| 24 | Since the festival began in 1979 it has attracted a growing band of support . |
| 25 | This went on for three hours , by which time they 'd attracted a sizeable body of fans into the hotel foyer , much to the consternation of the management who had to call the police to break up the party . |
| 26 | The European Business Studies degree prepares students for the European fields of business activity , and has always attracted a high calibre of student with language skills and an urge to do business in the varied market places of Europe . |
| 27 | Organised by the Eastern Sporting Sidecar Association , the first of 12 scheduled meetings this year has attracted a top class entry . |
| 28 | Magdalen , which had been Oscar Wilde 's college , always attracted a fair number of rarefied and aesthetic young men , and it was on to the path of this tradition that one of Lewis 's first pupils , John Betjeman , happily placed his bedroom-slippered toe . |
| 29 | Except for the drumming and chanting coming from the temple , and the photo display of the horrors of VD which had attracted a huge audience of twelve-year-olds . |
| 30 | In The Fox Above and the Fox Below , a greater threat to that identity is seen to be the capitalist , industrial development of recent decades , which has attracted a massive flow of migrants from the countryside to the cities and brought with it an erosion of traditional values and ways of life . |