Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] attention to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could equally well be seen as an attempt to draw attention to problems in the world that her audience might not be aware of . |
| 2 | The event will be held at ‘ The Old Apple Market ’ in Covent Garden , London , and is part of an ongoing campaign to draw attention to Britain 's rapidly disappearing old orchards . |
| 3 | There is no requirement to draw attention to subsidence , but it would be a criminal offence to say that there is none , or that the property is free from defect . |
| 4 | Establishing noticeability requires attention to location and time , which in turn determine the significance assumed by such seemingly intrinsic features as the quantity and quality of the discharge and its continuity . |
| 5 | The increased competitive pressure experienced by many US and UK companies as a result of the Japanese emphasis on reliability and the inclusion of ‘ extras ’ in basic models has made them much more aware of the need to pay attention to quality . |
| 6 | And three or four years later , in an essay that is still valuable inasmuch as it is a catena diligently culled from curious reading , Pound urges readers of The Egoist to pay attention to Ovid rather than ‘ the more Tennysonian Virgil ’ . |
| 7 | One student was killed and about a dozen injured on April 18 in Casablanca when police ended a demonstration at the Hassan II University to draw attention to demands for improved conditions . |
| 8 | In an interview with Pravda in March 1979 , the Iranian Minister of Information and Propaganda drew attention to measures such as ‘ the establishment of control over bases from which the Pentagon was carrying out electronic intelligence observations of the territory of the Soviet Union , the termination of the services of American military advisers in the armed forces , and a sharp cutback in the military budget ’ . |
| 9 | Our publicity drew attention to Hackfall 's plight . |
| 10 | Although I wrote to the Corporation drawing attention to Captain Roskill 's account of the incident , the letter was neither published nor acknowledged — presumably on the basis that the BBC saw no reason why facts should spoil a good story about a ‘ cover-up ’ . |
| 11 | In the same vein another contributor drew attention to Richard Needham 's statement on Radio Ulster on 19 November 1989 , in which he said that the aim of the government in West Belfast was to improve economic development there in order to attack ‘ terrorism ’ and that this was the government 's prime aim . |
| 12 | Sparring draws attention to misjudgements in distancing . |
| 13 | If filmed destruction to draw attention to expendability seems to hard to bear , there was one other radical solution canvassed at Eindhoven and that was terminal neglect . |