Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] attention [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 2 | Asked to comment on the Independent 's report that Libyan terrorists had put the bomb aboard Flight 103 by means of an unaccompanied bag sent from Malta , Aviv himself thought it was yet another attempt to distract attention from the truth . |
| 3 | It was a group which came together in 1972 in an attempt to focus attention on the severity and inconsistencies of sentences being given in the courts to loyalists charged with politically motivated offences in contrast to those being given to republicans . |
| 4 | We ask the general assembly to remit to the assembly council to give attention to the placing of health and healing within the overall work of the church and to report to next year 's general assembly on where they think this remit should most effectively be discharged . |
| 5 | And Michael Balcon , now convinced that making big-budget films to please the Americans was a sure way for the British film industry to commit suicide , began a campaign through the Cinematograph Films Council to draw attention to the amount of control Rank , with his dangerous policies , now had over the film industry . |
| 6 | Let us turn to another definition that would give the context-dependent nature of such phenomena more centrality : ( 12 ) Pragmatics is the study of the relations between language and context that are basic to an account of language understanding Here the term language understanding is used in the way favoured by workers in artificial intelligence to draw attention to the fact that understanding an utterance involves a great deal more than knowing the meanings of the words uttered and the grammatical relations between them . |
| 7 | It was not unusual for a direct appeal to be made in a memorial text to casual passers-by , or for visually impressive and even amusing monuments to command attention from the side of a road . |
| 8 | These indicators of the native film industry 's weakness encouraged The Federation of British Industries to intensify its campaign to bring attention to the way in which the disappearance of British films from the world 's screens impacted on ‘ the prestige of the country as a whole , and thereby the prestige of British industry also ’ . |
| 9 | Nineteenth century Liberals used the idea of society as a biological organism to draw attention to the need for competition ( as between species ) , while twentieth century Liberals argued the reverse to justify greater collective provision , stressing not competition but the harmonious working of the organism as a whole . |
| 10 | ‘ It did occur to me that the doctor did choose an odd moment to draw attention to the bell 's being there . |
| 11 | A Downing Street spokesman said he was grateful to the BBC for its prompt decision to draw attention to the lapse , and for respecting the confidentiality of the call . |
| 12 | The Jordanian government denied that there were any attacks and accused the Israelis of opening fire on Jordan to divert attention from the intifada . |
| 13 | It arose after the victory of Tannenberg , as a deliberate attempt by the German General Staff to distract attention from the failure of the Schlieffen plan in the west , and to associate themselves with Hindenburg 's triumph . |
| 14 | The report , leaked to BBC local radio station CWR in Coventry , said : ‘ A series of clues were available to the shift maintenance manager to draw attention to the use of incorrect bolts but all went un-noticed or unheeded . ’ |
| 15 | The term is used by Gershuny and Miles to draw attention to the fact that all products , whether material or immaterial , involve people in some kind of service activity . |
| 16 | His capacity to persuade people to pay attention to the plight of the less fortunate was constant . |
| 17 | But as one protester , Dee Gold said ’ We are disrupting this society to call attention to the government 's murderous negligence in tacking AIDS . ’ |
| 18 | That is why , only last year , we were involved in the eye awareness campaign with the profession to draw attention to the importance of people ensuring that their eyesight is checked . |
| 19 | However , it is recapitulated in brief here in order to focus attention on the variety of possible surface realisations of that type of isomorphic relation we know as textual metaphor . |
| 20 | It simplifies the algebra to confine attention to the case in which the unstable thermal stratification is weak compared with the stable salt stratification so that the oscillations are only slightly modified from those described by eqns ( 15.21 ) and ( 15.22 ) . |
| 21 | So , for example , a new fibre-tipped pen , in a range of such pens offered by a newcomer to the market , may be sold at a loss in order to draw attention to the range as a whole , and to establish a share of the total market . |
| 22 | Alternatively , you may be commenting on my handling of the revolution , ’ Mait said , grinning in exhilaration , ‘ playing both sides off against the middle to divert attention from the construction of all this . ’ |
| 23 | The emphasis was going to be on anything exotic , anything excitingly ( or boringly ) new , and any unhealthy tendency to pay attention to the food before all else . |
| 24 | Ralph Howell was the first politician to draw attention to the narrowness of the gap between the income of many low-wage earners when in work , and their benefit entitlement when they were without a job . |
| 25 | Delivering 40,000 ice cubes to the minister , representing the extra number of people who die each winter compared with the number of deaths during the summer , the Campaign for Cold Weather Credits hopes to draw attention to the plight of the poor and the elderly . |
| 26 | Currie himself squatted in the house to draw attention to the case . |
| 27 | He was so occupied with the accuracy of his record that he scarcely had time to pay attention to the narrative as a whole and it was n't until Evans fell silent that the statement jelled in his mind . |