Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] attention to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally they were military officers , partly because the army provided a supply of trained talent , partly because they were likely to pay attention to orders from London , and mainly because the organization of defence was the crucial part of their work . |
| 2 | In a hurry to find me and too tired to pay attention to detail , he might give him a cursory glance and exclaim , relieved , " Ah , there you are . " |
| 3 | It has suggested that in the study of social policy it is important to give attention to implementation problems that arise directly from the characteristics of policy , but to recognize also that there is a complicated interrelationship between these and a range of inter- and intra-organizational factors . |
| 4 | Anything easy and pleasant aroused deep suspicion and people enjoying themselves were usually less inclined to pay attention to others . |
| 5 | Yes , I think that as David said one of the things that we 've been working at very hard in recent years in teacher training is to try to improve the quality and the content of reading courses generally , and then I think it is also necessary to draw attention to teachers of this problem of dyslexia . |
| 6 | In the next chapter we consider events which are unexpected and which shock the couple into making a response ; for example , the discovery of an affair can destabilize a relationship to the point of breakdown , although more frequently it triggers a re-evaluation of the partnership and some heart-searching as to why it was necessary to draw attention to problems in the marriage in this way . |