Example sentences of "[adv] [det] attention to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Angster recently asked why the music press devotes so much attention to US bands . |
| 2 | ‘ And worse still , ’ she says , ‘ I often worry that my other two children are suffering because I have to give so much attention to Graham . ’ |
| 3 | Never has there been a gas cooker with so many refinements , so many innovations , so much attention to detail as the new Moffat Discovery . |
| 4 | Though ostensibly child-centred , it paid rather more attention to teachers and classrooms than to children 's learning . |
| 5 | Some studies are being made ( by the Department of Energy amongst others ) of user responses to solar heating systems in private houses ; these are chiefly in order to iron out operating problems , since to obtain maximum benefit the home owner or tenant must pay a little more attention to energy use patterns with active solar collector systems and avoid leaving doors and windows open with passive systems . |
| 6 | A new wc suite is by no means difficult to fit , but requires a little more attention to detail than the rests of the bathroom . |
| 7 | On the other hand , it is necessary for the applicant for judicial review from the start to give at least as much attention to questions of remedies as to the question of whether the respondent has committed a legal wrong . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Perhaps if corporation executives paid as much attention to programme budgets as they appear to do to their own tax returns , viewers would get better value for their licence money . |
| 10 | It was true that the press gave far more attention to shortcomings than had been the case in the recent past , but those shortcomings were a feature of life itself and would not disappear if the newspapers simply ignored them . |
| 11 | This procedure is unusual in that Genette devotes far more attention to Proust than other narratological studies have to actual texts , and it is also unusual in that Proust 's novel is an infinitely more complex work than those which narrative theories have commonly analyzed : with Boccaccio 's Decameron , Todorov was taking relatively simple specimens as points of reference for his narratological analyses . |
| 12 | There was even some attention to gender : the ILEA report pointed out that for every ethnic group in its area the mean performance of girls was better than that of boys ( ibid. , p. 19 ) . |
| 13 | Where , for whatever reason , participation in elections is low , as in the US today , or traditional mass support weakens , as in the US Democratic and the British Labour parties , politicians pay even more attention to minorities , of which ethnic groups are one variant . |
| 14 | Taking preservatives out is easy , but it means that everyone in food handling — producers , distributors , retailers , caterers and consumers — has to pay even more attention to food hygiene . |
| 15 | Get your team around the table and agree a plan of action to give even more attention to detail . |
| 16 | Second , LARSP places considerable emphasis on grammar , with relatively little attention to phonology , semantics or functional characteristics of language . |
| 17 | Useful as the ideas and examples assembled in Massey 's ( 1984 ) work on this topic are , her approach pays too little attention to culture . |
| 18 | Hamdi Ali Abdel-Wahab al-Banbi , hitherto chairman of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation ( EGPC ) , took over as Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister from the long-serving Abdul Hadi Mohammed Qandil , whose dismissal had been widely predicted following criticism from foreign companies that he paid too little attention to exploration and production . |
| 19 | In contrast with earlier enquiries — especially Beckford — they were criticized for paying too little attention to parents and for having ‘ a strong focus on the needs of the child in isolation from the family ’ ( DOH , 1988 , para. 4. 57 ) . |
| 20 | Do you think GM paid too much or too little attention to Lotus ? |
| 21 | TNC pays far too little attention to issues of progression and continuity at this important point of transition , especially for those who ( for whatever reasons ) have been low attainers at secondary school and do not wish to enrol on A-level courses . |
| 22 | He charged Sewell with the maintenance of discipline in the College ( which led to Sewell recommending the expulsion of only one pupil , although some students paid too much attention to tavern and skittle-ground ) . |
| 23 | Nobody in the world would suggest GM paid too much attention to Lotus . |
| 24 | Either way the notion is both ill-informed and ridiculous and it comes from paying too much attention to newspapers like the Guardian . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Flying planes can be dangerous ’ is the type-sentence of semantic ambiguity because it can yield both a passive and an active interpretation , and here a variation is used to demonstrate the danger of paying too much attention to public opinion . |
| 27 | Do n't pay too much attention to media pressure . |
| 28 | " No , I do n't think we should pay too much attention to Regiomontanus or Johann Müller , or whatever it was he called himself , " laughed the priest , " even if he did manage to forecast a comet or two . " |