Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [det] attention " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer . |
| 2 | If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit . |
| 3 | He had been paying more attention than she thought . |
| 4 | If anyone had been paying any attention , they would have seen the drooping head suddenly lift , the hands come away from the mouth , and the strained facial muscles relax . |
| 5 | It was n't intended ; none of them had been paying any attention to the world round about : they 'd all but walked into one another . |
| 6 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |