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

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1 This means giving constant and close attention to personnel policies , in particular those which cover recruitment , employment , training , motivation and communications .
2 The method will be to construct a chronological sequence of overviews of the study area based on taxation records , directories , and other sources ( including maps ) , paying particular attention to occupations , residence , changes in property holding , and land values .
3 up to a point I have been able to illustrate this theme by drawing attention to contrasts which are likely to be familiar to all my readers , e.g. the difference in modern Western societies between monetary and non-monetary exchanges .
4 Sparring draws attention to misjudgements in distancing .
5 Feminists must pay attention to beliefs about male and female speech , because prejudice is often more powerful than fact .
6 The fact that Mosley had lost his main propaganda outlet meant that the British public for the most part paid little or no attention to beliefs which appeared to derive from ideological sympathy with Italian fascism or more sinister reasons .
7 Much research and attention to artists ' requirements has led to a new breed of synthetic brushes which are highly appropriate for use with acrylics , among other uses , which hold their shape well over a long period of time , are delightfully responsive to use , are superbly controllable , allowing precision work , and are durable enough to resist occasional misuse .
8 The first is to provide a sampling facility and the second is to draw attention to products which might otherwise be overlooked .
9 Attention to strategies can provide answers to the blackgrass problem .
10 Spelling lists , if you want to teach from lists , which draw attention to patterns she is having trouble with , e.g. :
11 The difference between these two numbers in chess terms is much smaller than one would think ; not much more than being able to see an additional one or two moves ahead , plus giving special attention to checks and sequences involving piece exchanges and captures .
12 By the end of 1986 building society shares and deposits were almost as large as the total sterling deposits of the retail banks and if we confine our attention to deposits of the personal sector alone , then personal sector building society deposits outnumber personal sector ‘ bank ’ deposits by almost 2 : 1 , and have been increasing much more rapidly .
13 Headmen were enlisted to issue false sale vouchers , casual thieves feasted so that the animal could not be identified , and the stealing networks paid special attention to areas near district boundaries .
14 In counselling , indeed in any of the ‘ talking ’ therapies , tears play an important part , first of all in the release of tension , and later as a way of directing attention to areas which are ‘ tender ’ and might repay exploration .
15 Our operating divisions are run as separate , autonomous profit centres to maximise opportunities in local markets , yet at all times we pay careful attention to areas of synergy .
16 Logically , she 's now turned her attention to bras .
17 It was true that the press gave far more attention to shortcomings than had been the case in the recent past , but those shortcomings were a feature of life itself and would not disappear if the newspapers simply ignored them .
18 With the law as it is there may be some men who would prefer an adult partner , but who at present turn their attention to boys because they consider that this course is less likely to lay them open to prosecution or to blackmail than if they sought other adults as their partners .
19 There is some evidence that in mixed-sex classrooms teachers give more attention to boys , to the detriment of girls ' learning .
20 Lord Cross paid some attention to matters of policy raised by the case .
21 But for the New Critics art existed in order to convey a meaning , albeit a meaning that no logical discourse is capable of expressing , and attention to matters of form was regarded as the means whereby the non-rational meanings of literature could be uncovered .
22 In rejecting the Galenic theory that diseases arose from an internal imbalance of the four humors , Paracelsus switched attention to agents invading the body from outside .
23 Before the interview it is important to discuss the duties of the post with the present incumbents , paying particular attention to rotas and the timetabling of commitments such as ward rounds , on take days , and postgraduate meetings .
24 Careful attention to processes and the disposal of spent baths can often have beneficial effects , while changes in methods can produce very large changes in the character of the effluent .
25 Although attention to processes at this level could be proceeding to what some geographers would clearly categorize as soil science , the movement did catalyse the development of a more three-dimensional view of the soil .
26 More specifically , it gives little attention to processes other than those related to class ( including ‘ lost ’ class ) experience and the demands of capital accumulation .
27 Although it might be objected that Skocpol 's analysis courts the danger of falling into another version of functionalism , since it postulates some inherent functions of the state , it has the benefit of drawing attention to processes within the state and the specific logic which guides them .
28 The basic ingredients were provided by the painstaking but imaginative experimentation in the 1940s based on Abercrombie 's grand strategy , Pepler 's attention to procedures and Holford 's team 's introduction of new techniques .
29 do n't say keep your vehicle in good condition , pay particular attention to lights , brakes , steering , tyres , including spare seat belts
30 Advertising is simply the action of drawing public attention to goods , services , events , or to whatever you want them to pay attention .
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