Example sentences of "drew [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following incident with an experienced pilot on a K6E drew attention to the importance of making smooth stick movements . |
| 2 | He drew attention to the three spelling mistakes Leonard manages to include in so short a piece , marked by ( ! ) , and at the points we enumerate offers the following marginal comments : 1 . ) |
| 3 | Ashton too has created two oriental styled ballets in which the delicacy of the hands and arms drew attention to the way such subtle movements can take the place of words . |
| 4 | During our Pre-Campaign Wave Thatcher 's visit to Moscow and Kinnock 's to Washington drew attention to the issue . |
| 5 | In their speeches both our President and the AOC in C drew attention to the close links between the Association and the serving Royal Air Force . |
| 6 | I remember that in 1970 I was actually called deranged because I drew attention to the various forms of manifest nonsense on which ‘ The Thing ’ was battening . |
| 7 | ’ Eliot emphasized the dangers of this and drew attention to the importance of the Jamesian stress on ‘ the whole deep mystery of man 's soul and conscience ’ . |
| 8 | Eliot drew attention to the view that cars , gramophones , and central heating are inessential to civilization , but pointed to a more subtle fallacy which equated art with civilization and so saw ‘ Alaskan or Solomon Island wood carvers were more ‘ civilized ’ than the workmen and workwomen who turn out the bibelots of Woolworth 's . ’ |
| 9 | The final report of the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth drew attention to the stability in the distribution of income in the post-war period . |
| 10 | More sensitive than their counterparts at the beginning of the decade had been to the technical qualities of Hollywood films , the critics of the time constantly drew attention to the gap between the aspirations and the achievements of British films . |
| 11 | Critics also drew attention to the failure of British films to exploit the potential of British life . |
| 12 | Pickfords marketing man Andrew Jones drew attention to the company 's discounting policy , operating until the end of February , and put forward three options . |
| 13 | In August 1989 Greenpeace drew attention to the swordfish fishery in US waters off the New England coast . |
| 14 | He correctly drew attention to the fact that the action was God 's — God was in Christ ; that is to say , he was doing it . |
| 15 | First , it drew attention to the need for a balance between public and private spending . |
| 16 | Indeed , one of the first die links ever published drew attention to the surprising use of the same die on two coins which had been thought to be of different mints . |
| 17 | By the random selection of single items , they drew attention to the multitude of peripheral experiences that form the texture of life itself . |
| 18 | In his Herball of 1597 John Gerard drew attention to the use of distilled water of roses for strengthening the ‘ heart , liver , kidnies and other weak entrails ’ , while Nicholas Culpeper advised a ‘ decoction of Red Roses made with Wine ’ for ‘ the Headach and pains in the Eyes , Ears , Throat and Gums ’ ( The English Physitian Enlarged , 1652 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ the UK … drew attention to the practical steps being taken to deal with |
| 20 | The UK nevertheless drew attention to the fact that denitrification processes are in an early stage of development and that further research is necessary and that the protection of water sources may take years to have the desired effect … ’ |
| 21 | There was also an increased emphasis on productivity and better educational standards , which drew attention to the existence of people who could not look after themselves or sustain a normal education . |
| 22 | For instance , the Cockcroft Report ( 1982 ) on the teaching of mathematics drew attention to the importance of learning through talk . |
| 23 | In Better Schools ( 1985 ) the Government drew attention to the need to reconsider traditional teaching techniques in order to promote and encourage the development of oral skills : ‘ In the majority of primary and middle schools there is an over-concentration on practising skills in literacy and numeracy … much work is too closely directed by the teacher and there is little chance for oral discussion . ’ |
| 24 | Howe , reflecting on the result of his survey in Marks & Spencer , drew attention to the importance of employees ' being able to cope — in both work and other activities — with a variety of complex situations through talk . |
| 25 | The Committee drew attention to the fact that during the experiment fewer Members had been formally penalised for bad behaviour than in several recent sessions , and reported that neither the Speaker nor the Community had any evidence that rowdiness had significantly increased ; on the possible long-term effect , early evidence was ‘ mildly encouraging ’ . |
| 26 | They were ugly , they hurt her , they drew attention to the ever-increasing size of her feet . |
| 27 | as if this indictment of classic cinema were not enough , Mulvey also drew attention to the role of castration anxiety in the unconscious dynamic of pleasure and unpleasure of film-viewing . |
| 28 | The Marxist Left drew attention to the fact that the sources of industrial conflict were just as explosive as ever . |
| 29 | The radical Right drew attention to the fact that the public sector sheltered powerful vested interests whose claims for greater resources were theoretically boundless . |
| 30 | A report on food labelling and advertising published by the Food Advisory Committee in 1990 drew attention to the confusing nature of this part of the legislation . |