Example sentences of "attention to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That last thought caused her to pull herself together , and , making an effort to control her mind , she turned her attention to the letters to be answered . |
| 2 | Pomeshchiks on small and medium-sized estates resented the privileges enjoyed by monasteries and looked hungrily at their lands , while the swelling needs of the Treasury drew the Tsar 's attention to the resources of the Church . |
| 3 | Had we known about them we might have paid more attention to the findings of the crime survey which suggested a quite extraordinary level of public support for what is now dismissed as the ‘ political rhetoric ’ of the social worker . |
| 4 | In Shklovsky 's view , Sterne 's Tristram Shandy consists of a series of violations of literary conventions which draw our attention to the forms of fiction ; in so doing it transforms formal questions into content . |
| 5 | Between 1713 and 1763 they paid little attention to the colonies in America , and at least for the first half of the period it was hard to see what else could have been done . |
| 6 | In the main they draw attention to the changes of attitude and behaviour over the years . |
| 7 | The potential for misinterpretation and imperfect communication in the interactions between workers and clients is enormous , and no analysis of the effects of social work intervention can be complete without some attention to the views of those on the receiving end . |
| 8 | Why does government give attention to the views of the associations that represent the various groups of local authorities ? |
| 9 | This project is based on three premises : that more young economists , bound for industry , particularly consultancy , the civil service and the city , should have at least been apprenticed in research--hence , in part , the use of occasional research assistants rather than experienced professionals ; that applied economists should pay more attention to the views of non economists , and , in particular of practitioners in the fields they study , hence the emphasis on the flexibility required if we are to look at problems differently , or use different types of evidence ; and that more of us should build our models self consciously , with an eye to analytical convenience and ease of interpretation , considerations which would be less important were economics less inexact , since it might then make sense to seek the correct model , however difficult to analyse and understand . |
| 10 | The thing has gone through a tidal change and we know pay attention to the views of women themselves . |
| 11 | He drew their attention to the goods in shop windows , to the cooking-stoves and washing-machines in the windows of the electricity showrooms . |
| 12 | This distinction between cognitions ( the informational building blocks , the stored bits of information ) and specific attitudes or opinions is critical , for it not only emphasizes the public 's growing dependence on the mass media for information but it also draws our attention to the consequences of such a dependence . |
| 13 | The case for re-thinking what we mean by practice and its relation with theory has been made at an abstract level by writers who draw on the two very different philosophical traditions which contest the dichotomy , Marxism with its concept of praxis , and the American pragmatists who direct our attention to the consequences of our actions . |
| 14 | This theory draws attention to the consequences of the changes in global production strategies of the TNCs in recent decades . |
| 15 | It is clear , however , that political historians can not afford to confine their attention to the goings-on at Westminster or St James 's , and that the history of party under the later Stuarts is as much about the divisions that emerged in society at large as it is about what happened in Parliament or at the royal Court . |
| 16 | Those who have paid special attention to the interactions of parents and very young children say that the confusion between what belongs to self and what belongs to others applies with even more force to feelings than it does to bodies , and for very much longer . |
| 17 | It is not obligatory for directors to devote continuous attention to the affairs of the company . |
| 18 | My hon. Friend rightly draws attention to the benefits of Community co-operation . |
| 19 | If England feared Spain , for the Scottish Protestants Henri II became a very present menace ; for through his daughter-in-law Mary he might turn his attention to the Calvinists in Scotland as well as those in France . |
| 20 | He is right to draw attention to the divisions on the Labour side of the House , which were made clear by the way in which the House responded to a point that the Leader of the Opposition made yesterday about the so-called unity of the Labour party . |
| 21 | Like most rulers in the Dark Ages and the later Medieval and Renaissance periods , Charles paid attention to the patterns of the stars and planets ; he studied the astronomy of the time , which was unified with astrology and philosophy based upon the Four Elements ( Air , Fire , Water , Earth ) . |
| 22 | Bem ( 1979a ) suggests that paying more attention to the patterns of scoring on BSRl femininity and masculinity subscales might produce a more detailed understanding of the power which particular sex-associated traits have for women and men . |
| 23 | But it 's important too to draw the child 's attention to the patterns of spelling , and to show him how to analyse words . |
| 24 | In Somerset , Roger Leech has drawn attention to the patterns of parish boundaries and roads south of Ilchester on the Foss Way . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , recent research has drawn attention to the advantages of radio as a cost-effective and efficient means of communicating with particular audiences . |
| 26 | A brief overview of the scheme 's modular architecture is given , with particular attention to the proposals for the encoding of bibliographic and descriptive information , of textual records as typed and structured objects and of derived or analytic information extracted from textual records in an integrated and well-defined manner . |
| 27 | They were discussing the latest political crisis , and so paid no attention to the blushes of the cringing lass , as Mum spread soap on her . |
| 28 | They therefore stress the coherence of the views and power of the controlling group ( usually ‘ the state ’ or ‘ capitalism ’ ) , and pay little attention to the responses of the group being controlled , in this case elderly people , who are assumed to have little if any room for manoeuvre . |
| 29 | I would draw members ' attention to the notes in block type at the head there , and that is you are working to guidelines which have been agreed by the Policy Panel and Policy and Resources . |
| 30 | Dr Beeching had drawn attention to the shortcomings of the railway 's accounting practices . |