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

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1 This auto-haemorrhage , as it is called , is an astonishing refinement of the death-feigning strategy , implying that predators pay a great deal of attention to minute details of their prey 's condition .
2 Coverage of select committees ranged between 8% and 12% on the main news programmes , with much the same degree of attention to legislation .
3 Initially , philosophers interested in reference ( with some notable exceptions ) did not pay a great deal of attention to indexicals ( Bar-Hillel , 1970 : 76 ) ; then they began to treat them as very special kinds of expression requiring contextual co-ordinates or indices , as sketched above .
4 Unfortunately , there is no systematic , regular measurement available of attention to TV commercials ( or , indeed , to TV programmes ) , so there is no reliable quantification of the ‘ attention factor ’ , and our knowledge of how it varies by type or audience or time of day ( or any other variable ) is fairly rudimentary .
5 Hawkins collaborated with her brother Henry on Sermonets ( 1814 ) , ‘ Addressed to Those Who have not yet Acquired , or who may have lost , The Inclination to Apply the Power of Attention to Compositions of a Higher Kind ’ : her topics include female dress , female education , and ‘ the female Character of the present Age ’ , which begins with the fact that Christ chose to confide in women .
6 As further children arrive the mother will more and more be taken up with their care and their needs in general ; it may be difficult for her to strike a balance of attention to offspring and husband which will satisfy the needs of all including her own .
7 As the main photo shows , the Japanese are getting serious about plastic slopes , with plenty of attention to landscaping and good uplift .
8 In general , the area which gave the greatest cause for concern for its relative lack of attention to language issues was secondary PGCE courses at university level .
9 Here , however , is perhaps the place to consider the Act as a whole , in the context of the historical background already described and the general trend of attention to consumers ' interests at the time .
10 In my innocence and with musical aspirations , I thought it would be lovely to be married to a professional pianist ; after all , my good friend Fraser Muirhead was paying a great deal of attention to Margaret Geddes , another of the city 's first class piano teachers .
11 In the early 1970s research into substitute care revealed lack of attention to planning and continuity , resulting in ‘ children who wait ’ ( Rowe and Lambert , 1973 ) ; these criticisms were taken up by a number of organizations .
12 The designers have paid a lot of attention to safety , says Robert Chevillon , deputy general manager .
13 Despite the occasional drabness of the place , there is an alacrity of attention to intricacies , that makes the book unlike any other .
14 For social services the link with DHSS encourages the giving of attention to relationships with the health service , and to a lesser extent with social security .
15 As we saw in the previous chapter on Leadership , the key to success in leadership is to obtain the best ‘ mix ’ of attention to task and attention to people , taking the total situation into account .
16 Someone had ripped out the cables — more proof of attention to detail .
17 Person C : cynical , expresses views strongly , good raconteur , humorous , careful with money , bookish , pays lots of attention to detail should be : more sensitive to others , more generous with self and others , prepared to take more risks
18 Do you need to think big or to pay a lot of attention to detail ?
19 The first is to show the level of attention to detail required to make the approach work .
20 Clients of NCB will undoubtedly take notice of this lack of attention to detail .
21 Lack of attention to detail erodes customer confidence and profit
22 In that way he achieves the highest degree of attention to detail .
23 Lack of attention to detail below
24 The Author has paid a lot of attention to detail in the use of controls and instruments .
25 The Author has paid a lot of attention to detail in the use of controls and instruments .
26 It is this kind of attention to detail that keeps Wimpey in the forefront of the fight to reduce injury and damage accidents on construction sites . ’
27 Where I have a little concern and that 's only 'cos I do n't know the of all of it , is that you are picking up , yes very minor non-conformances but in practice fairly large numbers in a fairly short time scale what I would be concerned about is when you get your B S I audit that these other areas that you have n't looked at have got equally this lack of attention to detail , that you end up with not only major break down in your system , but sufficient minor breakdowns in your system , to cause them to say that they wo n't give you registration .
28 But as the policy of giving a great deal of attention to politicians had become established , complaints were inevitable : certain individual politicians were given more publicity than others , which led to jealousy .
29 Lack of attention to explanations arises because the student is behind in his copying .
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