Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] attention to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until lunchtime that my boss drew my attention to the strange ‘ hairband ’ I was wearing . |
| 2 | Unfortunately I had not realised that a stern rope had already been passed to the ship and an indignant shout from my crew on the after deck drew my attention to the long nylon rope which was now snaking dangerously round the bollards as we drew away . |
| 3 | The fact that the thieves confined their attention to the Early Cycladic display case , ignoring many other important works , suggests that they may have been stealing to order something which is a matter of concern to museum staff and archaeologists in Greece . |
| 4 | We can certainly agree that political sociologists have not confined their attention to the narrower governmental sphere or believed that this constitutes a part ( albeit an important part ) of the world of politics . |
| 5 | He let them study the map a while , accustoming themselves once again to its details , then drew their attention to the large red-shaded area to the bottom left of the map . |
| 6 | If your only answer is to pour more money on the problem then I would direct your attention to the parlous condition of other more deserving sectors of our society . |
| 7 | If , and some would say it is quite a big if , other policies can be used to get the right balance of activities in the economy , we can confine our attention to the narrower questions : are firms more likely to attain the lowest possible cost curve in the public or the private sector ? |
| 8 | I think you 're sort of drawing drawing their attention to the public concern over that sort of phrase . |
| 9 | However , when government and international planning agencies have turned their attention to the specific problem of " development for women " , it has been almost exclusively in terms of population control . |
| 10 | Indeed , even when the Schools Council diverted its attention to the whole curriculum , in contrast to its preoccupation with individual areas or aspects , it maintained its non-recommendatory stance . |
| 11 | Georgina transferred her attention to the other shoe . |
| 12 | Project Managers are freed from direct responsibility for staff so they can give their attention to the effective management of their project . |
| 13 | Lalage looked up only when Dada , having completed a diagram of salt and pepper pots , directed her attention to the flat silver dish she was delaying in its stately passage round the table . |
| 14 | He had had little to say to her since then , having turned his attention to the red-headed horsewoman she had today identified , from the servants ' gossip at the back of the church , as Mrs Covington-Pym She wondered what he could have to say to her now , not expecting it to be pleasant . |
| 15 | If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case . |
| 16 | Encouraged by the finding of this tiny coin , I turned my attention to the second side of the pond and began the same operation along its full length . |
| 17 | He was dead , and she drew the sheet over his face before turning her attention to the next . |
| 18 | Having made such a set at London and subdued any important resistance on the continent the Germans turned their attention to the total destruction of Britain . |
| 19 | The native denizens of the no-man's-land they called Lothian , between the Firth of Forth and Northumberland , then turned their attention to the six figures walking behind Macbeth of Alba , but , except for Bishop Malduin , who was easy to recognise because of his embroidered robes and his doubtful expression , the three middle-aged men and the two young ones were unfamiliar . |
| 20 | Then they all turned their attention to the real work of the day . |
| 21 | The local papers turned their attention to the German invasion of Belgium and the problems of recruiting while the Board of Education closed its file on the case without any apparent resolution . |
| 22 | In a desperate attempt to concentrate , and ignore David who had followed her , she turned her attention to the burly shop-floor worker who awaited her . |
| 23 | Agnes turned her attention to the young customers again , saying , ‘ Well , that 's a penny gone . |
| 24 | Because feeling grateful towards Rachel made her uncomfortable , she turned her attention to the other guests , a couple of solid neighbours whose grandchildren played in Kensington Gardens with Maggie during the holiday visits . |
| 25 | And runners like Wimpey Homes site manager Paul Hatfield are turning their attention to the 30 mile , 50km , 40/50 mile and 100km ( 62.1 mile ) distances — for fun ! |
| 26 | After the war MI5 turned its attention to the growing menace of Bolshevism which the government feared would soon engulf the country . |
| 27 | De Tourville 's flagship , the Soleil Royal , and two other large vessels were promptly burnt and next day Russell turned his attention to the remaining 12 , every one of which , during the night of 23/24 May 1692 , and the following morning , was destroyed by the English fireships or by small raiding parties . |
| 28 | From this bad beginning , Vermuyden turned his attention to the great wetland system around Hatfield Chase , south of the Humber . |
| 29 | Then he turned his attention to the small tape-recorder , which had faithfully copied the brief transmission . |
| 30 | In 1635 he turned his attention to the internal posts . |