Example sentences of "[vb pp] considerable " in BNC.
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| 1 | This apparent problem has attracted considerable attention in recent years . |
| 2 | One pollutant which has attracted considerable concern in recent years is lead . |
| 3 | The government 's four London Road Assessment studies and the Central London Rail Study are designed to improve matters in and around the capital but have attracted considerable hostility from conservation groups and some local authorities who believe the environmental consequences of major new road building will be catastrophic . |
| 4 | In Ashford , for example , the local authority is one of the strongest supporters of the Tunnel and the town has already attracted considerable commercial interest . |
| 5 | THE MARRIAGES of Henry Cecil , the first Marquess of Exeter , have attracted considerable popular interest . |
| 6 | This is the third novel from a young writer who has attracted considerable literary acclaim . |
| 7 | As a scholar Mannheim has attracted considerable attention both from commentators interested in the structure of his ideas and from those moved by the possibility of such a bold project as the sociology of knowledge . |
| 8 | Other entries from eastern Europe also attracted considerable interest . |
| 9 | The reports have attracted considerable publicity although only a tiny proportion of the reports have been debated in the House . |
| 10 | However , in practice , the EC system has attracted considerable criticism from competition lawyers . |
| 11 | The possibility that intrauterine growth of the fetus might be related to health in childhood and adult life has recently attracted considerable attention . |
| 12 | Her findings have attracted considerable attention , which can not be summarized here . |
| 13 | The Belfield Reading Project has attracted considerable interest and has provided a model for many schools in this country and abroad . |
| 14 | Rowland v. Divall ( 1923 C.A. ) has attracted considerable criticism . |
| 15 | The high salary levels of the top executives in large British companies have attracted considerable public interest in recent years . |
| 16 | This programme has yielded excellent results and the technology has attracted considerable interest from the data storage industry . |
| 17 | Although empathy has attracted considerable criticisms ( and perhaps a degree of misunderstanding ) a key objective in history teaching involves appreciation of how people in the past thought and felt . |
| 18 | This is another aspect of demographic change which has attracted considerable attention and triggered alarmist projections about the burdens and costs of care . |
| 19 | Although convection in the mantle has attracted considerable support as a likely cause of plate motion , it has also been argued that flow in the asthenosphere may simply be a consequence of the drag exerted by the movement of overlying plates . |
| 20 | This has indeed attracted considerable interest outside the profession . |
| 21 | RECENT developments in the British coal industry have added considerable value to this photographic study following the death throes of the Pug as well as Scottish steam . |
| 22 | While Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa were expected to accrue some of the black support which would otherwise have gone to Wilder , the principal beneficiary of Wilder 's withdrawal seemed likely to be front-runner Bill Clinton , who had won considerable black support in his five campaigns for the governorship of Arkansas . |
| 23 | However this study also reported considerable variations in the performance of mature students between universities , with non-completion rates ranging between 15.3% and 26.7% , but it was not designed to gather data on mature students which would enable systematic analyse of factors associated with differential performance within and between institutions . |
| 24 | South Korea 's reafforestation and erosion control programme is one of the few that has enjoyed considerable success . |
| 25 | The bishops may have enjoyed considerable temporal authority but their role in Chichester and the diocese itself was restrained considerably by the complex overlap of local jurisdictions which medieval society developed . |
| 26 | The onychophorans , represented today by Peripatus of southern tropical forests and its relatives , is now known to have enjoyed considerable success in the Cambrian . |
| 27 | For Republicans this was a particularly rewarding set of results ; in recent decades they had enjoyed considerable success in presidential elections , but the victories of Eisenhower and Nixon had not , with the fleeting exception of 1953 — 55 , been flanked by success in Congressional elections . |
| 28 | The war communism model had enjoyed considerable popularity , in part because of the USSR 's ‘ authoritarian-patriarchal culture ’ , and had later taken the form of Stalinism , with its belief that the state should play the major part in the transition to socialism . |
| 29 | During this time , they may be carried considerable distances if they are in flowing water . |
| 30 | The dust from the deserts is carried considerable distances until it is dropped either by a decrease of the wind velocity or , probably more usually , by being washed down by rain . |