Example sentences of "attention [vb -s] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much attention has been given to the seemingly altruistic behaviour of dolphins , with various authors citing such examples as the way cetaceans will assist or stand by other ill , injured or stranded animals even to the point of their own death . |
| 2 | Scant attention has been given to the way in which man 's attitude to death feeds back into his life and so exerts an influence upon society . |
| 3 | Although much attention has focused on the number of people out of work in recent years , less attention has been given to the number of family members who are also affected . |
| 4 | In dry parts of the world , such as Australia , forest and bush fires are an important natural hazard and some attention has been given to the ways in which GIS might help examine their potential impacts . |
| 5 | In syllabuses produced to date , only perfunctory attention has been given to cross-curricular themes . |
| 6 | Much less attention has been given to smooth-fronted waves of finite duration . |
| 7 | Of the four co-ordination problems identified in this paper as important to anaphor resolution , that of co-ordinating multiple knowledge sources is certainly the one to which most attention has been given to date . |
| 8 | Enright has pointed out with regard to media that ‘ too much attention has been given to the possibilities of the new media supplanting the book , and far too little to the ways in which each can and does supplement the other ’ . |
| 9 | Considering how much attention has been given to ‘ child development ’ by psychologists and educationists , it should be possible to find a generally-accepted theory that will help us to order our thoughts . |
| 10 | Despite all this , very little attention has been given to the issue in Great Britain as compared with other countries . |
| 11 | MUCH attention has been given to the Prisoners ' Dilemma as a metaphor for the problems surrounding the evolution of cooperative behaviour . |
| 12 | Although efforts continue to encourage people to stop smoking , in the past decade considerable attention has been given to reducing uptake of smoking by teenagers , particularly by using the educational opportunities available through the school system . |
| 13 | Interventions by schools to reduce smoking have been undertaken for many decades , although little attention has been given to assessing their effectiveness . |
| 14 | Little attention has been given to the relationship between mental and social class for the older age groups . |
| 15 | Attention has been given to predicting admission to long-term care because of concerns about the processes and mechanisms by which places are allocated . |
| 16 | Too little attention has been given to pragmatic factors , many of which Donaldson drew to our attention with notions such as human sense as well as her analysis of the contextual factors which operate to hinder the child 's grasp of intended meanings . |
| 17 | While Baldwin 's succession to Bonar Law in 1923 has been almost overdiscussed , practically no attention has been given to the way in which he slipped in for the third time in 1935 . |
| 18 | More recently , it has been shown that the aim of preservation has been somewhat relaxed , and some attention has been given to non-agricultural uses of green belts , particularly for recreation ( Hebbert and Gault 1978 ) . |
| 19 | However , in recent years much attention has been given to how manufacturing organizations have been negotiating or imposing its introduction or substantial extension . |
| 20 | In recent years , a lot of attention has been given to fibre . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , despite the growth of the disability movement and the struggles of disabled people to control the decision-making processes which shape their lives , little attention has been given to the say that young disabled people have in controlling their education . |
| 22 | In the context both of the discussion of devolution to Scotland and Wales and of the consideration of the reorganization of local government , some attention has been given to the case for regional government in England . |
| 23 | Using the notion that is particularly associated with representative government , of a new minister with explicit policy commitments , attention has been given to the pressures that frustrate such commitments , or replace them by commitments derived from other sources . |
| 24 | Particular attention has been given to ‘ race ’ and racism as structures which mediate gender divisions ( and divide women ) , with these differences always cross-cut by other dimensions of identity and experience ( by sexuality , social class and the oppressions associated with disability , for example ) . |
| 25 | In recent years considerable attention has been given to the ‘ health divide ’ in Britain ( Black Report , 1980 ; White head , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | Of these compounds , special attention has been given to chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , especially CFCl 3 ( CFC 11 ) used mainly as a propellant in aerosol sprays , and CF 2 Cl 2 , ( CFC 12 ) used extensively as a cooling agent in refrigerators and air conditioners ( figure 6.2 ) . |
| 27 | This explains why attention has been given to producing future warm earth scenarios based on past climatic data . |
| 28 | In total , the actions included in the Plan cover all road users but specific attention has been given to initiatives targeted at those road users most at risk , especially children and elderly people . |
| 29 | More recently , however , such theories have been extensively criticized ; the concept of development has been broadened again to take account of social and cultural , as well as economic , features ; and more attention has been given to development as a world-wide process in which there is a close interrelationship between events in different regions . |
| 30 | But as yet , however , much less attention has been given to an equally crucial dimension of local government activity — its capacity to actually achieve its policy intentions . |