Example sentences of "attracted the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of computer-driven video has attracted the title " Interactive Video " . |
| 2 | But elements of the IFM case have attracted the support of some angling bodies . |
| 3 | By 1920 the English Channel Tunnel Company 's scheme for a rail tunnel between Shakespeare Cliff and Sangatte was at an advanced stage of development and had attracted the support of MPs , businessmen and engineers who saw it as a major work of postwar reconstruction which would provide badly needed employment at a time of recession . |
| 4 | Stratford 's claims are also being supported by other groups pressing for alternative rail link routes including the socalled RACHEL plan which extends the Channel Tunnel all the way to London and has attracted the support of a major American bank . |
| 5 | ‘ Our proposals to allow the pools industry to compete on level terms with the lottery are fair and reasonable and have attracted the support of more than 100 MPs , ’ he said . |
| 6 | In each context , the major international instrument is a Convention elaborated under the aegis of the Hague Conference on Private International Law ; these conventions have attracted the support of many of the States most involved in international trade , and other regional agreements have been heavily influenced by the Hague models . |
| 7 | Once again I have attracted the wrath of many supporters who think they know more about football than the eleven ‘ Stiffs ’ they profess to follow . |
| 8 | Romania was not unique in cramming its citizens into overcrowded tenements which would have attracted the indignation of Dickens , but the process of urban deprivation was pushed much further because by the 1980s , the shortages of food , fuel and almost every kind of consumer good were worse even than in provincial Russia or small-town Poland . |
| 9 | East of Banbury , where it has attracted the name of Banbury Lane for some twenty miles , it follows a winding course along the watershed between the Cherwell and the Great Ouse . |
| 10 | Judith Mellor 's elderly parents have already attracted the Minister 's fury -by publicly criticising him over the Antonia de Sancha affair . |
| 11 | Without the wee man we would n't have got out of Div II ( IMO ) , which in turn means we would n't have attracted the likes of Macca and Cuntona , etc . |
| 12 | So Mr MacGregor 's hard work may yet come to grief , even if he sorts that problem out there 's another obstacle to privatization running smoothly , many on the railways think the private sector will need a generous subsidy before they 'd be interested , if their not attracted the state will have to spend more to make the new structure work , a lot more . |
| 13 | His head had been propped against a rock which had attracted the lightning of a sudden thunderstorm : the bolt had hit the rock straight on and rolled down the rock — so they all swore — to stab him fatally in the neck . |
| 14 | The experiment 's attracted the country 's leading authority on ancient cremation . |
| 15 | The experiment 's attracted the country 's leading authority on ancient cremation . |
| 16 | Although platinum is now the most costly of the precious metals , it is dealt with last because it has not yet attracted the affection or exerted the influence of either gold or silver . |
| 17 | His latest , Hook ( U ) , has attracted the year 's worst reviews and biggest audiences . |
| 18 | He may not have attracted the cameras in quite the way the Princess did , but he certainly brought recognition and respectability to every company or organization whose threshold he crossed . |
| 19 | It was the last , far more trivial act , that led to his execution , rather than the brutal killing which would not otherwise have attracted the death penalty . |
| 20 | Magnus ' inadequate barking had attracted the alsatian ; where was the owner ? |
| 21 | The tournament had attracted the media of Spain , Germany , and the United States , whilst in Japan and Australia golf addicts would be watching their TV sets in the middle of the night to see how Otaki and Coleman were doing . |
| 22 | It had attracted the interest of several composers before ( Corelli , Localelli , C.P.E. Bach and Salieri among them ) , but Rachmaninov 's ‘ foliations ’ leave the others standing : this is simply one of the finest sets of variations composed for the keyboard since Beethoven 's Diabellis . |
| 23 | The system was established in 1971 , and has attracted the interest of many countries . |
| 24 | It has attracted the interest of physiological psychologists because it enables them to study the operations of one cerebral hemisphere , isolated from input from the other . |
| 25 | While the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Medical Association counselled caution on closures , the impressive period architecture of asylums has attracted the interest of architects in the possibilities of preserving them intact with a resident population . |
| 26 | Cost effectiveness league tables have recently attracted the interest of decision makers in health care , such as those concerned with the allocation of public resources in the state of Oregon . |
| 27 | Now , there 's something been going on in Argyle Street in Glasgow this lunchtime which has attracted the interest of more than a few people hereabouts . |
| 28 | Ian Lang 's visit last week to address the Edinburgh University Politics Society was marked by a phenomenon which , a few years ago , might have attracted the interest of Arthur C Clarke . |
| 29 | He ignores the fact that the major argument for including the supervisor 's name in papers to which he or she has not made such a contribution is that it is the supervisor 's reputation which has attracted the research grant or ensured publication . |
| 30 | He ignores the fact that the major argument for including the supervisor 's name in papers to which he or she has not made such a contribution is that it is the supervisor 's reputation which has attracted the research grant or ensured publication . |