noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
attention span
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Children often have a short attention span .
attention to detail (= care that all the small features of something are correct or nice )
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I was impressed by the hotel's attention to detail.
attention/concentration span
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Most two-year-olds have a very short attention span .
attention/emphasis/focus shifts
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In this stage of a rape case, the focus often shifts onto the victim and her conduct.
attention...waver
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The students’ attention did not waver .
attract attention/interest etc
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The story has attracted a lot of interest from the media.
careful consideration/attention/thought
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Careful consideration has been given to all applications.
close attention
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You will lose weight if you combine exercise with close attention to your diet.
command respect/attention/support etc
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Philip was a remarkable teacher, able to command instant respect.
compelled...attention
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His performance compelled the audience’s attention .
concentrate your efforts/attention/energy/mind etc on sth
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I’m concentrating my efforts on writing my autobiography.
craves attention
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an insecure child who craves attention
deflect attention
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his attempts to deflect attention away from his private life
demanded...attention
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Too many things demanded his attention at the same time.
devote your time/energy/attention etc to sth
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He devoted his energies to writing films.
direct...attention
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I’d like to direct your attention to paragraph four.
distract attention
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Coverage of the war was used to distract attention from other matters.
divert (sb’s) attention (away from sb/sth)
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The crime crackdown is an attempt to divert attention from social problems.
engage sb’s interest/attention
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The toy didn’t engage her interest for long.
focus (sb’s) mind/attention (on sth) (= make people give their attention to something )
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We need to focus public attention on this issue.
focus your attention/mind/efforts on sth
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She tried to focus her mind on her work.
hold sb’s interest/attention (= make someone stay interested )
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Colourful pictures help hold the students’ interest.
media attention/coverage/interest etc
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The tragedy received worldwide media attention.
medical attention/treatment/care
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The injury required urgent medical attention.
rapt attention
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They listened with rapt attention .
receive attention/affection/support
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She received no support from her parents.
scant attention
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The story has received scant attention in the press.
short attention span
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Children often have a short attention span .
switch your attention/focus to sth
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Laura wasn't interested so he switched his attention to Tessa.
the focus of attention
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In this section of the talk the focus of attention will be on statistics.
turn your attention/thoughts/efforts etc to sth/sb
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Many investors have turned their attention to opportunities abroad.
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Phil turned his gaze towards the older man.
undivided attention
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I’ll give the matter my undivided attention .
urgent attention
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She believes the nation’s drug problem requires urgent attention.
warrant attention/consideration etc
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Another area that warrants attention is that of funding for universities.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
careful
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With our long tradition of effective management and careful attention to quality we have a bright future as an independent company.
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For example, careful attention is given to communication in writing.
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Exclusive folding designs are handmade in solid rosewood by craftsmen in the Far East, with careful attention to detail.
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Instead, in each room, careful attention is paid to how to build a just community.
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One day it might not be, unless careful attention was kept.
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Diverse management would happen in the natural course of things without paying excruciatingly careful attention to balance.
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What is certain is that land and property development are where the action is today and that merits careful attention .
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Any successful scheme would require careful attention to the vision that the city and the community had for Clinton.
close
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In the final section you did pay close attention to detail, but it remained only observation of detail.
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The result of such close attention being paid to community is a growing sense of responsibility on the part of the students.
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The former Prime Minister watched the results with close attention .
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But agents paid closer attention than they did before and watched for reactions.
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And pay closer attention to understanding what your body is telling you about yourself.
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Neither does close attention and strict parental guidance.
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This question of a more developed central core among the small towns is an important one which requires closer attention .
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Could employers realize their goals better by paying closer attention to what employees need?
considerable
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In a month-long seat belt campaign during 1992, this group received special mention and considerable media attention .
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Individually, too, children on polio wards sometimes received considerable special attention , which could make their stays pleasurable.
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Few contemporary political strategies are conceived without considerable attention being paid to media considerations.
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Such problems received considerable attention at this time; it is clear that nothing was being taken for granted.
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This apparent problem has attracted considerable attention in recent years.
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The value of therapeutic touch as a form of psychological comfort is currently receiving considerable attention in the professional literature.
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Code Unknown is therefore a movie that requires a considerable investment of attention .
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In contrast the physical environment and equipment specifications have received considerable attention .
full
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The cooking period may require full attention , as in stirring, basting, or turning, or it may not.
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She'd the full attention of all her friends, her making-the-most-of-it pals.
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Comrade leaders at all levels, you must give it your full attention .
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It is perhaps more surprising that they do sometimes attend to such matters, if never with full care and attention .
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Cooper had turned full attention to his son, who maneuvered the tall porch steps, one at a time.
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The few communications which do receive full attention normally achieve this through a combination of chance, inside information and relentless harrassment.
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Now she had got his full attention .
great
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Minor offences are being given the greatest attention with no extra funds and with no obvious benefit.
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The morass in Washington has gained even greater attention as bond investors have little economic news on which to focus.
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Hill designed furniture and paid great attention to interiors and colour schemes.
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Violet receives a great swarm of attention wherever we go.
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Women notice that greater attention is being paid to their concerns, but they see little real change in the statusquo.
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Though the educational program is designed for college-bound students, great attention is also paid to athletics and extracurricular activities.
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As the recession has deepened, so greater attention has focused on the issue of the late payment of debt.
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When I saw him in the Convention I was induced to pay the greatest attention to him whenever he spoke.
little
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The role of general practitioners in the assessment of deliberate self-poisoning has so far received very little attention .
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I paid little attention to him.
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So far, little attention has been paid by feminist sociologists to higher education.
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One of his great failings was paying too little attention to the daily news.
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Relatively little attention has been paid to the origins of labouring class poetry.
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It was a loaner from a manufacturer and had received little attention from the borrowers ahead of me.
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In the years after the first outbreak in the United States, polio was given little attention .
medical
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Jones received medical attention on the canvas and spent the night in hospital for observation.
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Doctors say she will need years of medical attention .
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We asked patients to return to the study clinic if they required medical attention between scheduled study visits.
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Authorities fear the girl will attempt to bear the child without medical attention .
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Moreover, as the 1939 survey showed, few women sought medical attention for their ailments.
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Despite her need of medical attention , the night was young and there was still time to celebrate.
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This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention .
national
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For a while it looked like a possibility for national attention .
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But it drew a crowd and national attention .
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We got a tremendous amount of national attention that year.
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Three major national television documentaries, including one on the work of the local Drugs Squad, brought Wirral to national attention .
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Two recent, highly publicized events have helped to bring the literacy crisis to the national attention .
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The couple has been mindful of the national media attention .
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His high-handed dismissal of an outspoken professor brought unwanted national attention to the struggling school.
particular
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Studies of cement sequences must pay particular attention to veining phases.
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Also, particular attention should be paid to the examination of the lymph nodes, spleen, and liver.
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The learning of mathematics has been a particular focus of attention .
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Pay particular attention to the muscles in your neck, shoulders and jaw and those around your eyes.
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The problem of Chambers demands very particular attention .
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In recent years it has paid particular attention to M0, M4 and M5.
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Again, pay particular attention to the security of personal doors and any windows you choose to install.
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You should pay particular attention to the dual needs of Tack as an owner and as a manager.
public
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The latter initially diverted public attention from social issues.
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Scant public attention has greeted the arrival of the children.
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The copyright disputes were brought to public attention when the Register ran a story detailing Mr Millington's plight.
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Of course, separate rules do not apply to Fidelity, but a different standard of public attention is in order.
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Television also received a disproportionate amount of public attention in the press and parliamentary debate.
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Jones said the president will not only have more say over bills but more power to focus public attention on specific issues.
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It was shocking and it brought him even more public and media attention .
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The justices have shown signs of the strain that public attention can bring.
rapt
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Tom mumbled on in his own way, a little flattered at the rapt attention he was receiving.
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Twice he drew her stylish silhouette in rapt attention in the Louvre.
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Victor's face as the match flares in front of it has the rapt attention of a man lighting a fuse.
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As Father Tim read, Barnabas awoke, yawned, and began to listen with rapt attention .
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In the early days it was like cinema in the home, watched with rapt attention .
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The entire audience stayed at rapt attention while the last part of the speech was translated into the vernacular.
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She quavers along with the congregation and is all rapt attention when the vicar does his bit.
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Indeed, although a display of rapt attention is required, the executive may not feel it necessary to listen.
scant
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It is clear, however, that Beveridge paid scant attention to these wider issues.
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But they predicted that until the disease entered the mainstream population, it would receive scant attention .
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It was found that scant attention had been paid to raising the cultural level of party members.
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The Civil Rights Division also gave scant attention to police abuse of black citizens.
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But even the much richer Soviet collections issued in the twenties were given scant attention in the West.
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Economic concerns received relatively scant attention .
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Feminists have, until recently, paid scant attention to their older sisters but this is now being remedied.
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They pay scant attention to the facts, rarely being bothered to research them or substantiate them.
serious
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They have been dismissed from serious critical attention precisely on these grounds.
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Although I am not in complete agreement with all of Lacanian theory, I believe it deserves serious attention .
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The view that women are on average better on language tasks and men on spatial tasks continues to receive serious attention .
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Contradictory discourses and practices within and between these agencies of socialization are given little serious attention .
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These questions in turn suggest further lines of research that deserve serious attention by historians of both science and art.
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Book publishing is another important aspect of the print media to which private organisations and the government should pay serious attention .
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International debt relief is at last getting serious attention , but personal debt continues to be a festering problem.
short
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Greta Cavazzoni is never short of attention either.
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A busy man, Johnny Cash, with a notoriously short attention span.
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Ramanujan has a short attention span and will fly off on a new tangent every time he sees a new idea.
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Only those with extremely short attention spans or those in orbit can appreciate all the chopping and changing.
special
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We will pay special attention to the underlying social problems in high-crime areas, particularly to prevent young people drifting into crime.
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Nor were all convinced that leprosy warranted being singled out for special attention .
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Geography, with special attention to the disposition of the Communist bloc and the free World.
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A visit to the home. Special attention to the child.
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The others will cover such things as workplace conditions and the use of work equipment, with computer screens getting special attention .
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Its use in the instance quoted is so straight forward that no special attention needed to be drawn to it.
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However, we know that young or sensitive skins of any age require special attention .
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Pay special attention to the area behind and under the ear.
undivided
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Give the telephone conversation your undivided attention .
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Each has received her undivided attention .
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Now able to give his undivided attention to Thome, Orosco walked him.
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A man may be looking forward to regaining the undivided attention of his wife.
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He had given his undivided attention to decorating his house for more than a week.
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Give us, pray, the benefit of your undivided attention .
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On the upside, I can safely say that I had the undivided attention of the class.
■ NOUN
deficit
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Other terms used for this collection of symptoms are minimal brain dysfunction and attention deficit disorder.
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Of the work-inhibited students, is it possible that this attention deficit may be related to their difficulty in completing assignments?
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If an attention deficit is suspected as the cause of academic and / or social problems, an evaluation should be conducted.
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What might be asked of the teacher and parents to determine if an attention deficit exists?
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And they gave him every diagnosis-from sociopathy to thought disorder, attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder.
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Coaches are always yelling at referees, remarking on their visual impairments and attention deficit disorders.
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Does he have a subtle learning disability, an attention deficit , or some type of physical or neurological problem?
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And if there seems to be no improvement at all, consider attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
drawing
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Smith wrote to Charles Hermite, the president of the Academy, drawing attention to his papers.
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He can't be very bright can he, drawing attention to himself like that?
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It is often difficult to know when and how to intervene without reinforcing the insult by drawing attention to it.
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Its circular of 12 January drawing attention to the decisions against united action taken at Southport, had been ignored.
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The movement was slow and sly to avoid drawing attention to himself.
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Feminists questioned this, drawing attention to the contribution to wealth made by women's unpaid labour in the home.
media
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While the outbreak directed media attention to pollution in the North Sea, ascribing the guilt to pollution was premature.
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And Feinstein, 62, has been aggressive in calling media attention to her bipartisanship.
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It was the culmination of two years of mounting media attention for Beattie.
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In a superstar culture, what grabs media attention are the superstar fatherhood stories.
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Although media attention remained fixed on events in London, they surely provided Mrs Thatcher's government with its biggest shock.
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Mr Scott added that all the media attention since May had undoubtedly damaged the good image of the club.
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Despite recent media attention , Edith Morgan finds continued resistance to change and an urgent need for positive measures.
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Morrissey was simply experimenting with the many facets of media attention .
pay
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When you make your calls, ensure that you speak clearly and precisely. Pay attention to your intonation and emphasis.
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All I do is pay attention to my body.
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We listen and pay attention when it says something in such a way as to attract our attention.
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When the thaw comes, pay attention to how your yard is draining, especially in places where water accumulates.
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The parent needs to learn to present food to the child and then not pay attention to what happens.
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Listen carefully to what people say and how they say it. Pay attention to views other than your own.
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Formula for listening alertly Pay attention Allow plenty of time to listen.
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I had feared that you might not be sufficiently developed. Pay attention .
span
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Try to increase your attention span and extend the length of time over which you can work effectively.
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Dear Kidsday: My attention span in school is very, very short.
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It increases our attention span . 2.
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And for those whose attention spans are trained to a short leash, it may be just the ticket.
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A busy man, Johnny Cash, with a notoriously short attention span .
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Given current attention spans , it may as well have come out during the Pleistocene.
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Most puppies have a rather limited attention span , such is their enthusiasm for life.
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These were necessary because most special education students have difficulty in concentrating and have generally limited attention spans .
■ VERB
attract
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A noisy relaunch with attendant superstars will certainly attract lots of attention .
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You could get in trouble traveling with them, especially this late in the day: they attracted Viet Cong attention .
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A man alone always attracts more attention than a couple together.
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Only six of the 10 tracts are expected to attract strong attention , mostly in the eastern part of the country.
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All of them were richly dressed, but it was their hair which attracted Rostov's attention at once.
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All these deposits have attracted wide attention because of the apparent abundance of novel body plans.
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A slight commotion in the outer office attracted his attention .
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Here, in similar territory, a Siberian Husky howls to attract attention from its owner.
bring
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All incidents should be brought to the attention of your employer.
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The computer flags any bodies that have moved during the observing session and brings them to the attention of the operator.
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There've always been plenty of kindly brother officers to bring it to my attention .
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And naturally Nixon, and anything else that anybody brought to his attention .
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Please would you bring this to the attention of the appropriate committee.
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So many people were bringing it to my attention I figured something had to go my way.
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He was once so alone that he needed to do something extraordinary in order to bring attention to himself.
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The alert and attentive reader, however, usually brings critical attention to what is being read and reacts in some way.
call
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It is now time to call attention to an incongruity in the conception of the rational man from which this chapter started.
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And Feinstein, 62, has been aggressive in calling media attention to her bipartisanship.
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It appears baffling because it seems to call no attention to itself.
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President Clinton called attention to the broader issues with his veto of the balanced budget act.
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It called attention to a need for safeguards of the rights of prisoners, disabled people, women and immigrant workers.
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For our purposes, I call special attention to the chapters on structural configurations.
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Jarmusch here is experimenting with and calling the spectator's attention to cinematic conventions.
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In most cases, such electronic smudging calls more attention to the items than they otherwise would have gotten.
capture
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The lichen-crusted walls bedecked with city grime capture my attention time and time again.
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His 70 homers that season captured the attention of even non-baseball fans.
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But why chose this as a means of capturing the hearer's attention ?
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They will need to be especially mindful of her motivations and create situations that are charged enough to capture her attention .
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The print itself is featureless and does nothing visually to capture the attention or involve the emotions.
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It is the only horse race that captures the attention of the general public, much like motor sports' Indianapolis 500.
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In fact, the newsreader did succeed in capturing my attention .
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The next item particularly captures Michael's attention .
catch
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Before the lights went down I saw that some one below in the stalls was trying to catch my attention .
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When a moving object catches their attention , babies are apt to focus on it.
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But the thing that caught and held her attention was the metal collar banding his neck.
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One white woman nearby caught her attention .
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We need to catch and hold their attention .
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Whatever Albie got himself into seems to have caught the attention of a lot of people.
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But these days television is crowded with faces that first caught our attention in the darkness of a movie theater.
command
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If any sector commands attention for the immediate future of food, it is the women.
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Fund raising and development of new academy facilities will likely command the attention of her successor.
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It has an urgency and personalization that commands attention .
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The megaliths command our attention , inspiring us with awe and curiousity.
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Although the place has periodically been a restaurant as well as a bar, never before has the food commanded such attention .
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The dinosaurs alone have commanded as much popular attention as the rest of the fossil animal kingdom combined.
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However, it is the watch tower beside them that commands the attention .
concentrate
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Fred preferred not to reply, and concentrated his attention on the screen.
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Once at Sotherton, however, Crawford concentrates all his attention on Maria.
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You can concentrate your attentions on the feel and fit rather than any corrective properties of the shoe.
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Posterity undoubtedly concentrated its attention on St Augustine as a theologian, and on what he wrote about predestination.
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We shall concentrate attention on the sterling deposit contract.
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The applied ethics unit concentrates attention on ethics and the community.
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I tried to concentrate my attention on one face.
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This concentrates attention on the facts and away from personalities and feelings.
deflect
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They could deflect attention from the bride.
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Right from the start he wanted me out of the film, because he felt I was deflecting attention away from him.
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It has deflected attention from our own deficiencies and the mess of the pound.
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Concentration in the literature on productivity growth tends to deflect attention from absolute differences in productivity.
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Noting this possibility, Kasparov starts a diversion to deflect White's attention towards the other wing.
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A pseudo pawn sacrifice seeking to deflect White's attention from the black king, but Kasparov is not to be deterred.
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To begin with, Sarah Ferguson deflected the attentions of the media too.
demand
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Every day, and sometimes hourly, another batch of papers reaches the manager demanding his attention .
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It was true that a major problem had just cropped up which demanded immediate attention .
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They demanded attention which it was not humanly possible to give.
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Too many things demanded his attention at the same rime.
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The game demands a lot of attention and plenty of time in the manual and help screens.
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Nevertheless, it is possible to identify a number of matters which are likely to demand much attention in the early nineties.
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To tell your problems is to demand attention .
deserve
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On that count, Mr Spivak's original creation deserves attention .
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For it is as a member, and a recorder, of the new bourgeoisie that Boilly most deserves our attention .
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An informant may, therefore, negotiate with others to convince them that she or he is ill and deserves attention .
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Colleagues, however, deserve special attention for the following reasons: 1.
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The rig change often deserves the greatest attention .
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Although I am not in complete agreement with all of Lacanian theory, I believe it deserves serious attention .
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Two aspects of this profile deserve brief attention .
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Whitehead and Hayek would agree that only the last item deserves your attention .
detail
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In the final section you did pay close attention to detail , but it remained only observation of detail.
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This attention to detail and time has the dual reward of motivating us to be on time and making us feel important.
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The first is to show the level of attention to detail required to make the approach work.
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I was struck by his great attention to detail and how systematically he assigned roles.
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This attention to detail only enhances the beauty and warmth of the voice itself, the ideal instrument for the part.
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Special thanks to Sheri Torrance and my co-chair, Deb Scott, for their keen attention to detail .
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Even then, Michael had this attention to detail and a determination to get everything right and everything around him right.
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Here we see that same attention to detail , physical presence and construction focused on much more accessible subject matter.
devote
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They were thus able to devote more attention to two increasingly critical areas.
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One reason the small companies do so well is they can devote more personal attention to each project.
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I am conscious of the late payment problem, which is something to which we are devoting great attention .
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Why is a major news organization devoting attention to a couple of orange slabs melted between two slices of bread?
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He was right to devote a lot of attention to them.
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He had to devote all his attention to the routine task of driving, finally pulling over to recover.
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The employee arrives here unsettled and is unlikely to be able to devote full attention and energies to the assignment.
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The managers were devoting attention to the wrong issues in their interactions with veteran subordinates.
direct
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The bronze horse-bits, well known from the northern steppelands, also direct our attention that way.
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A considerable background literature exists on this topic but only recently has economic urgency again directed attention toward this method of conversion.
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All boys were expected to play sport twice a week-here the manager directed my attention to the window.
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Both schizophrenia and mood disorders show evidence of decreased activity in frontal lobes and abnormal function of the system for directed attention .
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The auditors' role is to direct the attention of those responsible for devising and initiating policy.
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Everything about the film directs our attention to the way it, and the society it images, is put together.
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Dauntless doubted whether she could direct her attention upon anything long enough to sustain a sense of faith.
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Doing so directs their attention to their drinking and reminds them that they are trying to moderate their consumption.
distract
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Such comments have distracted attention from a long-awaited improvement in the economy.
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Instead, distract your child's attention from the buckles by fitting a play tray over the top.
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But his banter was a way of distracting attention from the issue at hand.
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Combine roses with earlier or later flowering plants, and with evergreens to distract attention from their leafless stems in winter.
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His clumsy attempt to distract her attention was all the warning she needed.
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If the area concerned is not suitable, you should try to distract their attention elsewhere.
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He gestures at the building behind him, as if trying to distract the animal's attention .
divert
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Nor can Major divert attention with good news.
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Computer and other technical problems diverted commander attention from the battlefield.
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Environmentalists keep quiet because concern over radon in houses would divert attention from the campaign against nuclear power.
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She struggled, screamed and was cut a second time in the neck but managed to divert his attention and flee.
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She included difficult filler items without pronouns to divert the subjects' attention from the anaphoric expressions.
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Even if they could be accurately measured, they may well divert attention from the real cause of behaviour.
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Disguise Disguise your steps with feints that make the opponent blink, or which divert his attention elsewhere.
draw
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What this criticism draws attention to is the bitter truth about teachers' exclusive concentration upon creativity with working-class pupils.
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His resignation from the National Executive had drawn attention to the difference within the Labour Party on foreign policy.
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Do not draw attention to yourself.
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Did he also draw attention to the total inadequacy of control over pension fund investments and procedures?
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In their 1984 paper McGrath and Solter also drew attention to genomic imprinting.
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They must draw attention to national needs if they believe the educational system is not adequately meeting them.
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Or had they been afraid to do so in case it drew attention to what they were up to?
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The fact that it is underrepresented highlights the need to draw translators' attention to it.
engage
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He ploughed on, trying to outline his plans for the paper, and engage Sutton's attention .
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No Man has more wit, nor can any one engage the attention more than Mr Morris.
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It wasn't Friern that was engaging our attention ....
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These three examples suggest certain abilities in a new-born that can not fail to engage the attention of new parents.
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It was the man who engaged the attention of Blind Hugh, one of the beggars on early duty at Pearl Dock.
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Neither of these responses seriously engages our attention on performance.
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Aesthetic attention , therefore, consists of engaging the focus of attention in a heightened sustained discrimination.
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Blacks troubled him most because the sight of a white worker emptying shit cans engaged their attention .
escape
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Phillips was first to go after an off-the-ball incident that escaped the attention of most people in the ground.
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Of these, the best known is the Everglade kite, which escaped attention even longer than the crocodile.
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A single vote, wasted votes and used votes Nothing escapes attention so easily as the obvious.
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But the counterproductive nature of this policy gesture can not escape attention .
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Developments in primary care Primary care did not escape the attention of the Thatcher government either.
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By waiting until the last minute, donors can sometimes escape attention in the hectic time before an election.
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The Government's actions regarding observance of the law do not escape attention by ordinary people.
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Life has slowed down so drastically for him that Blue is now able to see things that have previously escaped his attention .
focus
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Although speechreaders learn the necessity for keen attention and mental focus , it is not humanly possible to focus attention all day.
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The Supreme Court decision has given us an opportunity to focus our attention on the problem of end-of-life care.
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It would focus his attention where it should be focused: on finding Samantha.
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In the other; her ability to focus and pay attention is very strong.
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Those external demands provide a time-frame within which you must organize the rest of your activities and focus your attention .
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Jones said the president will not only have more say over bills but more power to focus public attention on specific issues.
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Any work undertaken on an individual basis should always focus attention on the broader social context in which the individual lives.
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But its collapse had served to focus attention upon many of the tensions within the school system.
focused
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Government policies from 1979 have focused attention on the private sector.
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That has focused even more attention on the subject of quality management nationwide.
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To account for this process revisionist work has focused attention on the experience of students in higher education.
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Goosby no doubt focused his attention on the knife and the blood.
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A stunned silence fell upon the room as they focused their attention on what they thought was princess Voluptua.
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Ostentatious expenditure focused the attention of the poor on the wealth of the wealthy, for this of course was its purpose.
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He focused his attention on them, concentrating on trivia, blocking out anxiety.
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C., at the time of the hearings and the publicity that surrounded him focused congressional attention on both issues.
get
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I shouted to get his attention , but my voice didn't carry far enough.
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Tony punched Simon to get his attention .
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Thing is, you've got to grab attention with just one phrase as punters rush on by.
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The danger is that ideas like this are getting a lot of attention in Congress.
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The others will cover such things as workplace conditions and the use of work equipment, with computer screens getting special attention .
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It was a way of getting attention .
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We got attention straight away, we got some kind of profile very easily.
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The Alsops' reporting got attention .
give
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Lancaster's book on library evaluation gives some attention to standards.
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The Civil Rights Division also gave scant attention to police abuse of black citizens.
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The events of 1909-11 have been given comparatively lengthy attention .
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This gives proper attention to each instrument or scale.
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Here we give special attention to youth.
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He had given his undivided attention to decorating his house for more than a week.
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Since only a small minority was involved in violence, why give so much attention to the riot?
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Was the wish of a bad person given the same attention as the wish of a good person?
hold
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It proved a work of appealing ingenuity with many reference points to hold the listener's attention .
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In addition to the daily little worries, these were the sweeping imponderables that held their attention .
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How can you hold their attention ?
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This exercise would let you know if the author has what it takes to hold your attention .
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Which hand seems to hold your attention ?
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Still, there was something about Maidstone that held Sandison's attention even after an hour.
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The third man was the one who held the Marshal's attention .
need
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Once behind their peers they need individual attention to improve their reading.
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But like Charles Frye, Rudi felt that his students needed counseling-and attention and support-at least as much as they needed teaching.
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The chicks need round the clock attention , and have developed very healthy appetites.
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Doctors say she will need years of medical attention .
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It is not Cupid that they need but the attentions of a sympathetic psychotherapist.
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It is one of the blessings of nature that the lock is something which needs minor attention .
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Mature horses need less frequent attention but should be checked annually.
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She said she later felt badly about calling 911, because she did not believe the matter needed police attention .
receive
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Perhaps the region that has received most attention in the press in this context is Amazonia.
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Maybe DWEMs received so much attention in the past because they deserved it.
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Liquid stool incontinence has so far received little attention .
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Probably no single subject in the concerns of man has received as much attention as love.
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In contrast, it is the ergonomics of the hardware and the physical environment that have received most attention .
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But the nontechnical aspects of the profession received little attention , and nobody thought to address problems relating to social position.
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He deals much more with national issues rather than local ones and has received less media attention as a result.
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The few communications which do receive full attention normally achieve this through a combination of chance, inside information and relentless harrassment.
require
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Ways in which the authority can discharge its responsibilities for standard setting for all aspects of care will also require attention .
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Handling the raft required very little attention .
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A matter has arisen requiring my personal attention .
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Any successful scheme would require careful attention to the vision that the city and the community had for Clinton.
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It is a demand that begins to override the others, and to require immediate attention .
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The First Lady had an upcoming swing through four cities that required my urgent attention .
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Crusting for chub is an art that requires concentration and constant attention to the performance.
shift
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It will by now have become apparent that Brooke-Rose shifts her attention increasingly toward language over the course of her oeuvre.
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Businesses have shifted their attention from their competitors to their customers.
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We are therefore shifting some of our attention to exploring the opportunities for reducing morbidity.
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He likes notions that shift attention away from government.
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She shifted her attention to the main car park which was full.
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So the company is shifting its attention from selling individual products to selling a range that can work easily together.
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We shall concentrate on the product market, then shift our attention later in the chapter to the resource market.
stand
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As they approached, Schellenberg pulled Devlin to one side and stood at attention .
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It stands to attention , striking the air with a knowing finger.
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You stand at attention until assigned.
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Two guards, both armed with machine-pistols, stood stiffly to attention either side of him.
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They walked slowly, led by the bagpipers, past an honor guard of law enforcement officers standing stiffly at attention .
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As soon as you saw that you were about to be struck, you stood at attention and waited for the blows.
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When a teacher entered or left a room, we stood at attention until given permission to do otherwise.
turn
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After the war MI5 turned its attention to the growing menace of Bolshevism which the government feared would soon engulf the country.
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After sloughing off Payless, May could turn its attention to acquisitions, possibly of other department stores, analysts said.
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Once his infantry were in position, Springfield had turned his attention to his motorised troops.
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Cooper had turned full attention to his son, who maneuvered the tall porch steps, one at a time.
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Having, as she thought, placed them, she turned her attention to her own stall.
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When Zeus had punished men by giving them women he turned his attention to the arch-sinner himself.
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Rohmer turned his attention back to Jimmy as Gilbert and Frye continued taking their mysterious readings.
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Once the school began functioning smoothly, Friedman turned his attention to the blacker side of the organization: interception and solution.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be in/at/to the forefront of sb's mind/attention etc
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The risks of a court case also have to be in the forefront of your mind.
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This meant that fund-raising news and any other news about the deaf was in the forefront of everyone's attention.
be the centre of attention
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I loved talking and being the centre of attention, so I was chosen to be spokesperson.
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And the tower is the centre of attention every May morning when the choir sings out across the rooftops.
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Do they want to be the centre of attention?
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I like to be the centre of attention or in the public eye 12.
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Once, when he was the centre of attention at the youth club I saw him do it again.
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She was the centre of attention - like all brides.
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There were more junior officials around them, and Pink was the centre of attention.
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Trust Claire to act as if she were the centre of attention.
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You can be the centre of attention in a conversation but then the focus changes as new participants enter the dialogue.
call (sb's) attention to
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Above all, the Fourth International calls attention to the turn in the pattern of the world revolution.
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And Feinstein, 62, has been aggressive in calling media attention to her bipartisanship.
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But despite these signs of success Hansen won't take full credit, calling attention to his brother, Steve.
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For our purposes, I call special attention to the chapters on structural configurations.
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It called attention to a need for safeguards of the rights of prisoners, disabled people, women and immigrant workers.
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President Clinton called attention to the broader issues with his veto of the balanced budget act.
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Stephen Scobie has called attention to the sheer excess with which Leonard adorns his pages.
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This book is in-tended largely to call attention to this opportunity and to point to the consensus for action that already exists.
capture sb's imagination/attention etc
catch sb's attention/interest/imagination etc
deserve consideration/attention etc
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An informant may, therefore, negotiate with others to convince them that she or he is ill and deserves attention.
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And immigration is still refusing to see that this man deserves consideration for his sacrifice.
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Another clever scheme for massive energy storage deserves consideration.
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On that count, Mr Spivak's original creation deserves attention.
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One academic point in Ghosh deserves consideration.
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The output deserves attention under three heads.
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Two sorts of applications deserve attention.
draw (sb's) attention
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Another speaker said that our presence would only draw attention and suspicion to their villages.
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Darwin knew these things perfectly well, and drew attention to them.
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Do not draw attention to yourself.
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However, in two other respects, Waddington draws our attention to points which are of fundamental importance.
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In this way the barbarians encouraged usurpation, and the usurpers drew attention away from the barbarians.
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It was the adventure and the daring that drew their attention.
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What this criticism draws attention to is the bitter truth about teachers' exclusive concentration upon creativity with working-class pupils.
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You remember, it was you that drew our attention to the place where the nurse was concentrating her pecking?
escape sb's attention/notice
fasten your attention on sb/sth
fix your attention/eyes/mind etc on sb/sth
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I gulped, and fixed my eyes on the blood-red pen on the desk.
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She fixed her eyes on Mr Hollins's face and waited for his answer.
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She fixed her eyes on the jagged line of rocks to which she had to climb.
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She fixed her eyes on the street in an attempt to calm herself.
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She couldn't turn round so she fixed her eyes on her two brothers on the altar.
give sth thought/attention/consideration etc
occupy sb's mind/thoughts/attention
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While she waited, she tried to occupy her mind with pleasant thoughts of the vacation.
pay attention (to sb/sth)
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I don't think she was paying any attention to what I was saying.
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All I do is pay attention to my body.
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And there they sat without frames, naked in the heat of high noon, waiting to be paid attention to.
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Feminists must pay attention to beliefs about male and female speech, because prejudice is often more powerful than fact.
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However, the candidate's response can be very revealing and interviewers should pay attention to it.
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I wish you'd learn to pay attention.
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Invariably, no one paid attention to them.
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Organizations in this environment must pay attention to flexibility, quality and asset utilization to remain competitive.
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Until you start paying attention, that is.
serious attention/consideration/thought
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A more serious consideration to my mind is the continued quotation of Ingard shares on the Stock Exchange.
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Book publishing is another important aspect of the print media to which private organisations and the government should pay serious attention.
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But little serious thought has been given to this problem.
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Dangerous goods and perishable goods are two examples of operational specializations worth serious consideration.
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It does not mean that money has to rule, but it is a necessary and serious consideration.
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It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate.
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The concept of interleague play in major league baseball is certainly intriguing, worthy of serious consideration.
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The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons.
snap to attention
spring to attention
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Groups of men in bare feet and tattered clothes spring to attention as strangers approach.
stand to attention
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The colonel gave the order for the men to stand to attention.
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We stood at attention until we were given permission to leave.
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An hour later he was standing to attention in a depleted square of those who had survived the battle.
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Even the few pots of make-up on the blue-flowered dressing table seemed to be standing to attention.
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Farrar knew what he had got into now, and stood to attention.
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It stands to attention, striking the air with a knowing finger.
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One man in the crowd removed his hat and stood to attention, head bowed in prayer.
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The guide should have made us all stand to attention and salute.
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The Major stood to attention and saluted.
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The older one put his hand to his mouth and coughed and stood to attention and the younger one shot his cuffs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Attention to customers is increasingly important.
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Grease the bike's chain and any other areas that need attention .
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Jerry loves the attention he gets when he's performing
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Pets need a lot of care and attention .
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Snake bites require immediate medical attention .
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The intense media attention surrounding the case, has made it very difficult for the family to cope.
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Your plant looks like it needs some attention .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had wanted to be the center of attention , and he was.
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Nobody was paying any attention to me up there.
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Ron Deacon is adoptive father to five love bird chicks, who need constant care and attention .
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Scant public attention has greeted the arrival of the children.
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The project seeks to combine attention to economics and the human advantages of the redesigning of work.
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The rig change often deserves the greatest attention .
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When people do read longer works, they primarily favor high-drama novels that get a steel grip on their attention .