Example sentences of "[noun sg] be to draw [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of this thought experiment is to draw attention to the fact that a number of pragmatic phenomena can be explicated by reference to just these sorts of features : for example , as we shall see , deixis can be thought of as based on the assumption of mutual orientation , presupposition on the assumption of shared knowledge of a domain and its updating , speech acts on the making explicit , for other participants , of one 's interactional goals , conversational implicature on the assumption of interactional co-operation , and so on . |
| 2 | To focus upon the processes of characterization is to draw attention to the definition of act or event , and interaction between potential deviant and enforcement agent . |
| 3 | The object of the first chapter was to draw attention to the basic oddity of the stratigraphical record in that particular facies were remarkably widespread during particular periods of geological time . |
| 4 | The first is to provide a sampling facility and the second is to draw attention to products which might otherwise be overlooked . |
| 5 | A supplementary approach to school art instruction is to draw attention to the types of subject in art , such as portraiture , narrative , landscape . |
| 6 | The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to a hitherto generally unobserved feature of the parallelistic couplet in Hebrew poetry , a feature which may offer a point de départ for a revised perception of the nature of the parallelistic couplet as such . |
| 7 | After identification of the problem to be addressed , the next stage is to draw attention to ideas which bear upon it for interpretation and conceptual evaluation . |