Example sentences of "[to-vb] attention to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans are now in motion to stage exhibitions featuring paintings from the collection in the Museum and Art Gallery in the city centre , where they are certain to attract attention to the University 's artistic riches and forge a new link between town and gown . |
| 2 | A supplementary approach to school art instruction is to draw attention to the types of subject in art , such as portraiture , narrative , landscape . |
| 3 | ‘ It did occur to me that the doctor did choose an odd moment to draw attention to the bell 's being there . |
| 4 | He selected the simplest steps and poses of classical dance with its perfectly balanced form and at the same time gave it straighter , longer lines to draw attention to the more athletic qualities of Greek dance and to the clear , austere sounds of Satie 's modern music . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I have really nothing else to say , except to draw attention to the inherently contradictory nature of that for which you appear to be asking . |
| 7 | Part of this passage has been italicised to draw attention to the somewhat presentist presupposition that underpins much of this book . |
| 8 | And Michael Balcon , now convinced that making big-budget films to please the Americans was a sure way for the British film industry to commit suicide , began a campaign through the Cinematograph Films Council to draw attention to the amount of control Rank , with his dangerous policies , now had over the film industry . |
| 9 | Those candidates stood to draw attention to the fact that Northern Ireland residents can not vote for or join a party which will govern them when it comes to power . |
| 10 | ‘ Why would you need to draw attention to the initials ? ’ |
| 11 | The report , leaked to BBC local radio station CWR in Coventry , said : ‘ A series of clues were available to the shift maintenance manager to draw attention to the use of incorrect bolts but all went un-noticed or unheeded . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Currie himself squatted in the house to draw attention to the case . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This has certainly been the view of groups which sought to draw attention to the problems of the long-term unemployed and older workers — notably the Unemployment Alliance in the 1980s and now the Campaign Against Age Discrimination in Employment ( CAADE ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In 1967 John Rowe Townsend felt it necessary to draw attention to the return of heavy-handed didacticism in children 's books , and critical evaluations of them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It seemed to Joan that the wedding-ring was burning her finger ; it caught the light , glistering brightly as if wishing to draw attention to the fact that it was embellishing an alien hand . |
| 20 | The Committee for Other Faiths suggests/proposes that a Bidding Prayer be included at Mass on the Sundays in January 1993 to draw attention to the centenary year , and also on Sunday , 24th October , to make our people aware of the need to be involved . |
| 21 | Melvin Lee , assistant to President John Yellow Bird Steel of the Oglada Tribe , is keen to draw attention to the more positive aspects of life on the ‘ res ’ in the Black Hills . |
| 22 | The use of white wallpaper mounted on dark backing paper gives good contrast and helps to draw attention to the material displayed . |
| 23 | They will write letters on behalf of their ‘ twin ’ to try and uncover their whereabouts and to draw attention to the plight of ‘ disappeared ’ people . |
| 24 | The principal aim of this event — which features paintings by Poussin , Lely , Gainsborough , Canaletto , Dujardin , Murillo and Tiepolo — is to draw attention to the current financial plight of the Gallery , which houses one of London 's finest collections of Old Master paintings . |
| 25 | Yet politicians persisted in propagating the myth and continued to draw attention to the supposed independence of the press . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But the double oxymoron in line 13 suggests that they are already foes , that the poem has either been written to try and restore a lost harmony , or to draw attention to the fact that it can not be restored . |
| 28 | In the end , Matza 's argument is not so much an attack on correctionalism as an assertion of the not very original point that , whatever your starting assumption , it is best to keep your mind open to all possibilities ( although he was right to draw attention to the fact that correctionalists had often been guilty of not doing so ) . |
| 29 | He faxes me , not to own up to being Clark Kent , but to draw attention to the fact that he is giving his surplus Y-fronts to Mary Loudon ( author of Nuns Unveiled , Chatto it says here ) for onward transmission to the homeless . |
| 30 | The major trials which followed the movement ‘ to the people ’ were used with great skill by the accused and their defence lawyers to expose the incompetence and brutality of the police , to draw attention to the plight of the peasantry , and to win sympathy for the wretched poverty of many students . |