Example sentences of "only [verb] attention to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was wearing huge aviator glasses , designed to hide but only drawing attention to the palely perfect face , the unlipsticked mouth , the silvery blonde hair fine as maize silk , which was drawn back into the nape of her neck . |
| 2 | Some of the claims have been on the basis of debatable information , and all have been highly selective and have only drawn attention to the adverse elements of research whilst ignoring much encouraging , positive information . |
| 3 | Clearly both meant well , but their concern only called attention to the gulf between their world , their experience , and her own . |
| 4 | Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’ |
| 5 | Here purists were deliberately challenging official arguments which opposed fresh legislation or greater public discussion on the grounds that this would only draw attention to sex and incite immorality . |
| 6 | The contents of this chapter can not describe the tax position on each transfer ; they can only draw attention to the possible heads of charge and reliefs available in respect of each of them . |
| 7 | Therefore the point of this section is only to draw attention to some aspects of intellectual and administrative change that can be more easily observed in a discussion on sources than in a more general context . |
| 8 | But here I prefer only to draw attention to those basic principles which underlie all matters of form , whether in short phrases , large movements , or even gigantic symphonies , leaving aside the study of conventional forms ( sonata form , binary form , etc. ) which the student can find better illustrated elsewhere . |
| 9 | Others certainly did : Metternich remarked , ‘ in the great Confederation , there is arising a smaller union , a status in statu in the full sense of the term , which will only too soon accustom itself to achieve its own ends by its own machinery … and will only pay attention to the objects and machinery of the Confederation insofar as they are compatible with the former ’ . |
| 10 | The exclusion from the survey of land held by customary tenures not only restricts attention to a minority , but seriously distorts the profile of effective ownership , for not infrequently the lord of the manor 's control was more apparent than real : |
| 11 | He only pays attention to those features which have been necessary and relevant in similar situations in the past . |