Example sentences of "[adj] attention to " in BNC.

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1 Stinging , biting , their incessant attentions to warm-blooded creatures always raised the question as to their purpose — as if man 's comfort were at the heart of the purpose of creation .
2 What is it that links the baseball players , boxers and other athletes , drawn with hyper-realist attention to detail , that people the canvases of Jessica Gandolf ; a combination of sexual imagery and social tension that characterises the work of John Carey ; strident colours and hand-written captions that tell of love and men in the paintings of Irène Hardwicke ; the domestic interiors and nature studies for which Katherine Spitzhoff uses egg-based tempera to give a high-gloss finish ; the pictures of John Spinks , a professor of linguistics , that incorporate printed paper , old book bindings and letters from his father ?
3 Based on the above , which HDTV hype can not alter , I suggest that commercial technical research should concentrate on larger flat screens with superimposed pixels with change of standards but with some attention to the basic defects in the NTSC , Pal and Secam systems which are only mildly irritating .
4 Although medical education may pay some attention to the social sciences in the pre-clinical curriculum , the highest priority is still overwhelmingly given to the so called ‘ hard sciences ’ .
5 Lancaster 's book on library evaluation gives some attention to standards .
6 At a time when FISA , the sport 's organizing body , helped by the drivers ' own association , had belatedly begun to pay some attention to safety in a notably risky sport , Chapman 's remarks showed a callousness towards his drivers — and by implication , towards other human beings — that I found it hard to admire .
7 The course would be a very detailed coverage of the potential of and techniques for using a particular DTP package ( e.g. , Ventura ) with some attention to questions of design .
8 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 .
9 Its main proponent has been Martin Kane and I give some attention to his work in chapter three .
10 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 ) .
11 The Eighth Finance Commission in 1985 recommended the allocation of more funds for the restructuring of prison buildings , and the Ministry of Welfare put forward a plan for improving the welfare of prisoners , including some attention to after-care , under the Seventh Five Year Plan .
12 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 .
13 Some attention to handwriting , for b-d distinction .
14 It is particularly instructive , therefore , to give some attention to those institutions which were either freshly conceived in the aftermath of the war , or which achieved university status at that time .
15 So you could , the handwriting could of been neater , fine and then you want to pay some attention to your illustrations in the future , that 's good , come on then shout at me , it 's the only time you 're allowed .
16 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 ) .
17 All the same Meredith began to pay some attention to the girl .
18 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 .
19 An understanding of these issues requires the student of social policy to give some attention to organization theory and to the study of administrative law .
20 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 .
21 Once they are started off you can give some attention to the support finances and the Joint Fundings .
22 Lord Cross paid some attention to matters of policy raised by the case .
23 Jackson did promise some attention to the matter but it seems that nothing was granted .
24 But the ancients gave some attention to the individuals who started wars and to the justice or injustice of their actions : occasionally they went beyond the individuals to discuss the conflicts of interests between states .
25 Even so , we would expect the resulting market valuation to pay some attention to the underlying assets since the reason for buying investment trust shares is to participate in the income and capital gains resulting from the managers ' investment performance .
26 That left Jack and me to pay some attention to the history of the place .
27 Whatever the shape of your kitchen , it is worth giving some attention to the decoration and accessories to create a distinctive style .
28 If the hon. Gentleman , from a London constituency , would pay some attention to the problems that we face in Hemsworth , such as those with RECHAR , which is helping to keep rates in his area down , he would be doing us a service .
29 At this point it is necessary that we pay some attention to the phrase ‘ rational and perfect economic environment ’ .
30 It is also unfortunate that in such a morphologically oriented book there was not some attention to atherosclerotic aneurysms .
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