Example sentences of "[to-vb] attention from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If nuclear Iraq is an Israeli scare concocted to distract attention from Palestine , it is an own-goal . |
| 2 | Some books on phonology give exercises on the phonemic analysis of other languages ( e.g. Katamba , 1989 ; Hawkins , 1984 ) , but though these are useful , I do not feel that it would be appropriate in this book to divert attention from English . |
| 3 | Large sections of the Palestinian community perceived the elections offer as a device to end the intifada , and the latter provision as a bid to divert attention from calls for an international conference on the Middle East . |
| 4 | It looks to many of us as if the Government are using the helmet issue to divert attention from spending money on real facilities for cyclists . |
| 5 | The purpose of this policy was twofold : to offer new and larger horizons to the French people and to the army , so as to divert attention from Algeria ; and to safeguard France 's position from outside encroachment until such time as more favourable military and international conditions ( an end to the Algerian war and the development of a French atomic arsenal ) gave him the opportunity to unveil his long-term strategy . |
| 6 | ULSTER Unionist councillor Nelson McCausland today claimed Sinn Fein 's criticism of council trips aimed to divert attention from IRA bombings . |
| 7 | With Therese — who might or might not be able to sing — tucked away into a thoroughly unsuitable but static role , and Ingrid struggling along opposite him , there would be nothing , but nothing , to remove attention from Gesner . |