Example sentences of "to draw [noun] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had , however , served to draw attention to the acute housing problem in Derry and like the HCL in Dungannon , it gave an example of effective protest and direct action . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the changing pattern of higher education . |
| 3 | A three-year boycott of the area 's tourist attractions , called to draw attention to the low number of blacks employed in the industry , ended in May when a bi-racial group suggested an ambitious solution . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the serious congestion in the Winchester area . |
| 5 | Konrad Adenauer , West Germany 's Chancellor , suspected that Korea was intended by Stalin as a ruse , to draw attention to the Far East whilst he launched into violent action in Europe . |
| 6 | Whereas using the device in the former genre displays acting skill advantageously , its use in the latter is not only more expensive and difficult but tends to draw attention to the technical device rather too obviously . |
| 7 | Er and they are merely designed to draw attention to the broad corridors which |
| 8 | All we can do here is to draw attention to the existing divorce , and to suggest measures that may lead to reunion . |
| 9 | Edward Topsel , the English naturalist , writing in 1658 stipulated that , to cure blindness , or pains in the eye : ‘ Take the head of a black Cat , which hath not a spot of another colour in it , and burn it to powder in an earthen pot leaded or glazed within , then take this powder and through a quill blow it thrice a day into the eye ’ — the italics were not used in the original , but are to draw attention to the crucial quality of the black cat who is about to lose his head . |
| 10 | Besides questioning the policy of planning new roads , houses and offices , the CPRE wants to draw attention to the knock-on affects of that building . |
| 11 | For example , if I normally doff my cap only to my superiors , but on an occasion doff my cap to an equal , then I can effectively communicate an ironic regard , with either a joking or a hostile intent ( the non-linguistic example is intended to draw attention to the great generality of the phenomenon ; for a study of a particular linguistic practice and the jokes thus made available , see the study of the openings of telephone calls by Schegloff ( 1979a ) ) . |
| 12 | I merely wish to draw attention to the long chain of wrongly dated groups of pottery , each in turn dependent on the other , all the result of the false assumption that a few coins were contemporary with this deposit , whereas they were either residual or still in circulation , and in neither case have a relevance in establishing a terminus post quem . |
| 13 | 1.1 This is a guidance document to draw attention to the radical changes which have taken place for Session 1987–88 to the module descriptors in : |
| 14 | The point of introducing these ideas here is to draw attention to the radical analysis which suggests that management may use rules and procedures , and other more complex organisational arrangements such as product groups or even matrix organisational structures , not just because they may be a more efficient means of co-ordination but because they are necessary if capital is to control recalcitrant labour . |
| 15 | It is this that has led students of social policy to draw attention to the significant impact of war upon policy . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the deafening silence of the Labour party when last week we announced success in reducing long waits for NHS treatment . |
| 17 | The object of the first chapter was to draw attention to the basic oddity of the stratigraphical record in that particular facies were remarkably widespread during particular periods of geological time . |
| 18 | Despite many advantages , such a definition fails to draw attention to the unifying characteristics of pragmatic phenomena . |
| 19 | The speculation aroused by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer 's statements at the Ecofin meeting in September 1991 that there could be an inner core of eight countries served to emphasise the difficulties of reconciling such a proposal with a wider Europe and to draw attention to the two-speed concept . |
| 20 | It would be wrong not to draw attention to the grave problem which is being created for the future by the production of large numbers of council houses at such rents that , if a fall occurs in building cost , difficulty will be experienced in letting them , despite the subsidy . |
| 21 | But the employers who were in fact well placed to have a statistical view of the matter , were not inclined to draw attention to the inconvenient figures . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the vital contribution that our roads programme will make to the west midlands economy , and to contrast that with the appalling implications of Labour 's proposals . |
| 23 | Yet politicians persisted in propagating the myth and continued to draw attention to the supposed independence of the press . |
| 24 | My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the local example in Sunderland of the greatest-ever capital investment programme taking place in the national health service . |
| 25 | I am glad to have the chance at a comparatively civilised hour to draw attention to the particular problems facing teachers dealing with allegations of child abuse . |
| 26 | The separation of these themes illustrated that , for tactical reasons , the party did not wish to draw attention to the full nature of its ideology . |