Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be pay to " in BNC.

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1 I suspect that higher amounts of compensation have been paid to those who have been allegedly ill-treated by the state than to the victims of terrorism in the Province .
2 Special attention has been paid to security .
3 In the Soviet context an inordinate amount of attention has been paid to the willed aims of Bolshevik leaders .
4 In addition , particular attention has been paid to legs and mouths , ’ says Mr Barnes .
5 Little , if any , attention has been paid to differentiating between cause and affect , between basic distortions in social , economic , and political systems , and their very visible symptoms . ’
6 Relatively little attention has been paid to the origins of labouring class poetry .
7 Little attention has been paid to this as a separate issue in ‘ neutralist ’ writings .
8 In recent years far more attention has been paid to psychological factors in skill development , the catalyst being a book The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey ( Cape , 1975 ) .
9 Much attention has been paid to helping managers learn how to use appraisal meetings to tackle their problem people .
10 While in the United States the unfolding tale of corruption and mismanagement at the EPA has tended to focus on the usual mainstays of White House interference and ‘ sweet-heart ’ deals with past industrial employers , little attention has been paid to the Lysenkoist assaults of the Reagan administration on the EPA 's scientific integrity .
11 As stated earlier , less attention has been paid to the factors that determine the readability of illustrations than has been given to the readability of text .
12 More attention has been paid to lesbians and gay men in regular feature slots .
13 As the electoral process has lumbered into action , much attention has been paid to Bill Clinton 's alleged sexual dalliances and his attempts to evade war service in Vietnam .
14 Little attention has been paid to alternative presentational formats , such as graphs .
15 In this respect particular attention has been paid to the giant gas planets like Jupiter and Saturn .
16 Prout have over forty years of experience in design and construction of catamarans and as one would expect , superb attention has been paid to even the smallest detail making her comfortable and workable .
17 Yet in spite of significant debates , both within and between Marxism and pluralism , very little attention has been paid to the patriarchal nature of the state .
18 Yet by 1984 , when the House of Commons Social Services Committee reported its investigation on Children in Care , they commented : Since their report was published more attention has been paid to dissemination , particularly by the Department of Health ( formerly DHSS ) but , as some of the writers of this book will show , there is considerable unevenness in knowledge about children in care , and in the research which is carried out to provide more knowledge .
19 The topic is approached in this way because scant academic attention has been paid to insider dealing in the corporate context ; furthermore , it is within this context that the Chinese Wall mechanism operates ; and finally , new rules have recently been promulgated by the SIB covering the misuse of inside information in the financial conglomerate context .
20 Audio and digital control boards are completely separated and much attention has been paid to chassis damping and immunity to external mechanical or airborne disturbance .
21 Most attention has been paid to the nervous control of motor activity in respiration , walking , flight , stridulation and mating behaviour .
22 This chapter is essentially devoted to consideration of sexual development and fairly scant attention has been paid to anomalies of prenatal development in general .
23 There are exceptions and it is fair to say that over recent years a good deal more attention has been paid to these problems .
24 Recently some attention has been paid to the differences in degree results of men and women and an experiment carried out at University College , Cardiff shows that women 's degree classes improve when a system of anonymous marking is used .
25 More careful attention has been paid to the Kadets and to political developments on the Right .
26 Scott argues further that insufficient attention has been paid to the potential for collaborative action on the part of shareholders , which he regards as indicating the possibility of a form of ownership control despite the absence of minority holdings large enough in themselves to amount to a control position .
27 The most easily quantifiable , if however the most elusive , value in these factors is money , and so not surprisingly a good deal of attention has been paid to this variable .
28 Although the interactions between NC protein and RNA have been well studied , less attention has been paid to the possible in vivo roles for the interactions with DNA .
29 Great attention has been paid to the layout of the cockpit so that it is as efficient as possible when racing yet convenient when the yacht is being cruised with only the family on board .
30 While attention has been paid to the modification of adjudicative procedures to meet the requirements of a particular area , there has been little thought directed to the broader question of whether adjudication is the correct decision-making process on which to be fashioning procedures .
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