Example sentences of "attracting [adv] much " in BNC.
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1 | In fact , in interviews , a quick reference to the home town frequently serves them as well as a rhetorical trick : by declaring their provinciality , they can remind you just how surprised they are to be attracting so much attention all of a sudden . |
2 | With a double muscled trait in existence within his own Weekfield flock for many years , Mr Slade wonders why the Beltex is attracting so much interest . |
3 | In the following year he had succeeded in attracting so much public attention that the government was obliged to hurry through parliament a new Merchant Shipping Act setting a fixed load line for ships — the " Plimsoll Line " . |
4 | Indeed , extra-curricular activity includes attracting as much media attention as possible as a member of Act-Up , the New York activists whose purpose is to elevate Aids to the top of government priorities . |
5 | A selection from the vegetable patch was attracting as much comment as the brightest of floral displays.And according to one of the growers , there 's no secret to growing perfect vegetables : |
6 | He was pondering how to chat him up without attracting too much attention from Blanche and Eddy , when he heard the superintendent ask the man from the Drugs Squad who exactly had given them the tip-off in the first place . |
7 | " There are places up there where he could have been put in all right without attracting too much attention . " |
8 | We 're attracting too much attention . |
9 | However , as my hon. Friends the Members for Ashford ( Mr. Speed ) and for Mid-Kent ( Mr. Rowe ) have strayed into the area of transport , and as the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) got as far as Yugoslavia , I feel that I , too , can stray a little from the main theme of the debate without attracting too much criticism . |
10 | But the next best thing is a taxi , which can always bend the odd rule and rewrite bits of the Highway Code without attracting too much attention . |