Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [noun sg] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must confess that I find this deeply attractive , and I want to draw attention to a few Bible passages where I think this idea is being worked out . |
| 2 | Here I want to draw attention to an article by Beverle Houston , ‘ Viewing television : the metapsychology of endless consumption ’ , which seems to me to be one of the few serious attempts to theorize television subjectivity , and one which deserves more attention . |
| 3 | If you use range on the from file to copy it , you may change that file , save and forget to range value to a different range . |
| 4 | Insurance is only mentioned in UCTA 1977 ( s11(4) ( b ) ) with regard to clauses which seek to restrict liability to a specified sum . |
| 5 | This quartet has its rambling episodes , and the performance seems over-emphatic , as can happen when good players seek to do justice to a not-utterly-familiar score . |
| 6 | Like most artists , I hope to give shape to a reality that often seems wilfully chaotic . |
| 7 | When we offer advice , seek support for our ideas or seek to gain commitment to a course of action we are attempting to persuade . |
| 8 | Here the dissatisfactions of the twenties seem to give way to a realization that life is not a rehearsal ; careers are for real . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , both types do imply incidence to an actualizer of the infinitive 's event , a fact which poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , which must be explored in order to analyse ( 2 ) — and other uses , such as that in subject function — adequately . |
| 10 | There is , for example , no Annie 's Bar where we may gossip with the mighty over a vodka — although we do have access to a well-stocked cafeteria , where the waitresses are uncommonly polite . |
| 11 | In this communication I wish to draw attention to a substance present in the tissues and secretions of the body , which is capable of rapidly dissolving certain bacteria . |
| 12 | Rather I wish to draw attention to a particular exhibit in the gallery which is quite simply the best that I have ever seen and which appeals at many levels : intellectual , artistic and aesthetic . |
| 13 | At present I only wish to draw attention to a possible ambiguity in a crucial move . |
| 14 | Sir , — I write to draw attention to an inaccuracy in the headline and the first paragraph of your report on the consultation document for specialist designatory letters in your December 1992 issue ( Specialists to get Institute recognition , p 11 ) . |
| 15 | Suppose now that you wish to dub music to a video recording with only a simple linear mono sound track . |
| 16 | In this paper I will attempt to outline some of the factors which have given rise to a social division between ‘ incomers ’ and the native population in Dunrossness during the first phase ( 1971–79 ) of the so-called ‘ oil era ’ in Shetland . |
| 17 | The claims of absolute holism explored in the two preceding chapters are clearly both interesting and provocative , and have given rise to a series of fertile debates within the social sciences . |
| 18 | However this debate , and the ensuing documents , have given rise to a legal-formal or contractual accountability model rather than a partnership model for education , according to Lawton . |
| 19 | These financial and moral concerns have given rise to a change in policy , which has led to the Child Support Act due to be implemented fully by April 1993 . |
| 20 | In conclusion , we believe that our study avoided the methodological and analytical problems of previous reports , which have given rise to a great deal of controversy over the efficacy of EFA supplementation in AD . |
| 21 | The socio-economic problems in West Germany as elsewhere have given rise to an inevitable resurgence of hostility towards ethnic and other minorities , and have put some pressure on the political system itself ( reflected in the emergence of the part ecological , part anti-nuclear , part general social protest ‘ Green Party ’ ) . |
| 22 | In particular , the traditional , if untheorized , distinction between serious literature and ‘ rubbish ’ has broken down ; as Franco Fortini said , the occasional slummings of the aristocratic writer of the past have given way to a situation in which we all live off the ‘ guano ’ which our society produces day by day ( Cadioli and Peresson 1984 : 85 ) . |
| 23 | Both involve the identification of a previously existing , now largely defunct , set of moral imperatives which have given way to a new order in which control , particularly of sexual conduct , has diminished . |
| 24 | The so-called functional areas , such as marketing , production and personnel have given way to a more problem-centred approach , but within this there has been a notable decline in the significance accorded to industrial relations , and still more , to the field of personnel management . |
| 25 | In the later work the curving rhythms have given way to a system of verticals and horizontals , broken only by the forty-five degree diagonals of roof-tops and trees . |
| 26 | IN Washington 's superb bookshops , which stay open all night and serve coffee and bagels , tomes on the Cold War have given way to a new theme : the prospect of a trade war between the three great economic blocs — Japan , the US and the European Community . |
| 27 | OFFICE of Fair Trading analysts have given approval to a proposed £52 million takeover bid for Britain 's largest harbour towage company , which employs 106 people at Felixstowe . |
| 28 | We have said goodbye to a person who can not be replaced and the rest of us will have to work the harder and care the more in order to try to fill the gap left by his passing . |
| 29 | In Robbe-Grillet 's Pour un nouveau roman ( 1963 ) and Nathalie Sarraute 's L'ère du soupçon ( 1965 ) , Michel Butor 's essays and Claude Simon 's conference papers , articles and interviews , all of these writers have had recourse to a modernist canon as part of an impetus of literary self-justification . |
| 30 | Further , representatives of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board have had access to a large quantity of files in [ that state ] and copies of certain of them which have been returned to London , and among these files is documentation concerning the affairs of your clients . |