Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] attention [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why would you need to draw attention to the initials ? ’ |
| 2 | Land Trusts , he thought , should be responsible for the proper exploitation of resources and would need to pay attention to the human and social needs of everyone living in the area . |
| 3 | If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended . |
| 4 | You will need to pay attention to the first impression you make . |
| 5 | For the present , I would like to focus attention on the most crucial part of the theory , the distinction between scope and truth . |
| 6 | We would like to draw attention to the very simple rhythmic structure of this double canon . |
| 7 | Yes Chairman erm , I 'm , I should like to draw attention to the paragraph three , two and wonder what happened to three , three , because er we see it goes from my copy goes from three , two , to three , four , so er I do n't know whether there is anything in three , three that I have forgotten , but I , I assume now that I which they 're are two other . |
| 8 | The separation of these themes illustrated that , for tactical reasons , the party did not wish to draw attention to the full nature of its ideology . |
| 9 | Yes , he would have to pay attention to the Director 's thinly veiled warning , and be careful not to become a ‘ weak link ’ … |
| 10 | At first glance , the association of holism with their strongly materialist brand of Marxism might seem to prejudice the discussion : the very distinctiveness of its explanatory categories might seem to distract attention from the matter in hand . |
| 11 | The analysis of the search space carried out in this chapter should help to focus attention on the discriminating requirement of top-down information in terms of the number and similarity of hypotheses competing over a stretch of the utterance , and of the distance between pruning points ( i.e. the grammar ‘ chunks ’ ) , the two factors which determine the potential combinatorial explosion of hypotheses . |