Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pos pn] attention " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second wave , from the 1970s to the present day , have limited their attention to the question ‘ how effective is a particular program with a particular type of client ? ’ |
| 2 | So far we have confined our attention to convergent margins where two plates are in motion towards each other . |
| 3 | how you have caught my attention , |
| 4 | Seeking more succulent vegetation , many herbivores have turned their attention to higher sources of food in the shrubs and trees of woodlands and forests . |
| 5 | Now the Lindsays have turned their attention to two major Dovřák Quartets and the same qualities shine through . |
| 6 | Commercial breeders abroad , who are mainly rearing animals for the table , of such subjects as the Queen Conch ( Strombus gigas ) and various species of edible Tridacnid clams in the South Pacific , have turned their attention to the opportunities provided by the aquarium animal trade . |
| 7 | Florence publishers have turned their attention almost exclusively to their home territory . |
| 8 | This is the reason why in recent years theorists have turned their attention back to the question of the historicity of historical understanding , to its status as interpretation , representation or narrative , and , more radically , to the problem of temporality as such . |
| 9 | However , when government and international planning agencies have turned their attention to the specific problem of " development for women " , it has been almost exclusively in terms of population control . |
| 10 | Language understanding also involves being able to relate the information in successive sentences , which is why psycholinguists have turned their attention to discourse interpretation , that is , to the comprehension of whole passages rather than single sentences . |
| 11 | Other critics have turned their attention to the order of the main classes in DC . |
| 12 | In the postwar period , many social thinkers , reckoning the terrible cost in death and suffering of the wars and civil wars of the first half of the twentieth century , have turned their attention increasingly toward the possibilities and modes of peaceful change . |
| 13 | The Irish were disappointed at finishing ninth in the Inter-Continental Cup in Poland last month , but now have turned their attention to getting things right in time for the 1995 European championships being hosted in Dublin . |
| 14 | My cynicism , to which you have drawn my attention , prevents my aggression . |
| 15 | The opening chapters of this book have drawn your attention to post-war changes in the structure and position of the British state , both nationally and internationally , and Chapter 4 discussed how these changes in state structures have affected local as well as national government . |
| 16 | Languages and their histories are invaluable resources for feminists analysing the workings of patriarchal societies , and in the last twenty years feminists have drawn our attention to the sexist implications of usage in many languages . |
| 17 | Pilmore does n't seem to exist on Ordnance Survey maps ; there does n't seem to be any Tees crossings in this vicinity which have escaped our attention , so Echo Memories is stumped . |
| 18 | I have called your attention to telephone boxes because the money lost in their vicinity remains visible … at least until the next British Telecom cleaner or council sweeper comes along . |
| 19 | So far , we have restricted our attention to unrepeated real roots of the characteristic equation belonging to a matrix A ; we now consider the case of two equal real roots . |
| 20 | So far we have restricted our attention to some of the main empirical trends behind the shift in the structure of the economy from manufacturing to services . |
| 21 | Consequently , most semantic theories have focused their attention on single sentences , rather than larger units ( such as paragraphs , etc . ) . |
| 22 | This is partly explained by the fact that the countries and institutions that collectively wield the greatest power in the EEC have focused their attention on matters arising out of the Single European Act which have little to do with trade . |
| 23 | Furthermore , they have concentrated their attention largely upon economic growth while neglecting other aspects of development . |
| 24 | But , by an agreement reached in Washington on May 22nd , five countries — America , Russia , France , Britain and Spain — have switched their attention from the plan to preventing the war spilling out of Bosnia . |