Example sentences of "[det] attention to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the National government and the Conservative Party leadership felt obliged to pay some attention to a movement with which they had little sympathy ; they frequently referred to pacifist feeling as a reason for slow rearmament and later for " appeasement " of Germany and Italy . |
| 2 | Once they are started off you can give some attention to the support finances and the Joint Fundings . |
| 3 | One such followed the 1919 Indian Jails Committee report , and another came shortly after Independence ; many of the new leaders had spent time in gaols , and devoted some attention to the problem in the 1950s ( including the drawing up of a Model Prison Manual in 1959 ) . |
| 4 | All the same Meredith began to pay some attention to the girl . |
| 5 | However he or she can not disregard interests and factions within his or her own party , and will obviously give some attention to the competence of those appointed . |
| 6 | She knew that she ought to be paying some attention to the rest of the class but she was altogether too excited to let the matter rest . |
| 7 | That left Jack and me to pay some attention to the history of the place . |
| 8 | A class doing a study on " water " , for instance , might need to give some attention to the history of water supplies in their area , or to look at past epidemics of cholera and typhoid , to prove that clean water is vital for good health . |
| 9 | Jackson did promise some attention to the matter but it seems that nothing was granted . |
| 10 | Whatever the shape of your kitchen , it is worth giving some attention to the decoration and accessories to create a distinctive style . |
| 11 | With figures like these , analyses of textual pleasures are not enough ; some attention to the context in which the texts are produced , reproduced and circulated is necessary . |
| 12 | That said , the drinks sector seemed relieved that the Chancellor has paid some attention to the risk of driving business across the Channel to the Calais supermarkets , the building sector was prepared to look for possible beneficiaries from the approval the Chancellor has given to rail links in South-east England , oil benefited from the abolition of PRT on new North Sea fields , the motor trade seemed to take the threat of fuel taxes in excess of inflation in its stride , and WH Smith reflected a sense of relief that VAT has not been extended to books and newspapers . |
| 13 | At this point it is necessary that we pay some attention to the phrase ‘ rational and perfect economic environment ’ . |
| 14 | Executive directors have a contractual relationship with the company which imposes on them , either expressly or by implication , an obligation to devote such attention to the business as is necessary properly to carry out their functions . |
| 15 | The parent will tend to recalibrate their response , as , as , as you have said , parents will come to expect children to make a lot of fuss about nothing , and consequently wo n't pay so much attention to a child 's distress as they would to an adult 's , because we regard it as natural , children to cry or make a fuss about the treatment we contribute , but the reason for that could be that we , we have as it were , readjusted our sensitivity to distress and we , we really have a double standard . |
| 16 | He does n't pay very much attention to the content of these books that we 're looking at in this course . |
| 17 | But you can have a fascinating time in Baden without paying too much attention to the spa . |
| 18 | In eating , if we pay too much attention to the delicacy with which we handle the cutlery , our own enjoyment of the food and our hostess 's feeling of pleasure in that enjoyment will be impaired . |
| 19 | She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side . |
| 20 | For the past few minutes she had not really been paying much attention to the direction and she looked round worriedly . |
| 21 | My general view on this matter , as a suitably humble outside observer , is that the student of modem sediments pays too much attention to the way these sediments are laid down , their form and composition , but not enough attention to the question of whether or not they stand any chance of preservation for the stratigrapher of tomorrow . |
| 22 | She had been too busy looking after people to pay much attention to the way her life was going , but compared with Lottie 's life and his brother and sister-in-law 's , theirs had been very humdrum . |
| 23 | Weberians , by contrast , give much attention to the state itself , arguing that it should be seen as a set of social processes relatively independent of class relations . |
| 24 | In other words , pay as much attention to the owner/manager as the yard when choosing premises . |
| 25 | For example , the Commonwealth Government of Australia has , in recent years , devoted much attention to the quality of service from its internal audit staff . |
| 26 | It seems doubtful that any other photographer has given so much attention to the condition of trees growing in close proximity to urban man . |
| 27 | Never in the history of human seduction has one man given so much attention to the cause of international womanhood as the former roadsweeper from Milton . |
| 28 | The rival politicians know this , which is why they are paying so much attention to the news media . |
| 29 | He promised himself that he would devote at least as much attention to the father as to the son . |
| 30 | Most had given little attention to the assessment and care management of people with problem drug or alcohol use ’ . |