Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] attention to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended . |
| 2 | Talking too much has the additional disadvantage that you may end up revealing more than you intended , especially if you do not want to draw attention to a lack of relevant expertise , or a past unhappy work experience . |
| 3 | The Opposition do not like to draw attention to that , but the Government are very proud of having created so many new owner-occupiers . |
| 4 | Since this has cropped up here I would just like to draw attention to it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It would also need to pay attention to regional variations , since it is true , even in these days of mass mobility and the mass media , that to travel to a place remote from a major centre of population is to move back in time and rediscover the traditions and practices of an earlier period . |
| 7 | The Goldsmiths ' Company may also have paid attention to other claims upon them . |
| 8 | I am not intending to go through the report in detail erm but I hope that I we will now need to draw attention to one or two issues erm which are of particular concern and which emerged through the consultation process . |
| 9 | But what 's the sense , I do n't want to draw attention to myself just before something important . " |
| 10 | Erm they do n't want to draw attention to themselves . |
| 11 | As a councillor himself , the author would surely have drawn attention to such a reversal . |
| 12 | As a councillor himself , the author would surely have drawn attention to such a reversal . |
| 13 | Well we do n't have to pay attention to it and er it 's not necessary to record every word is it ? |