Example sentences of "[v-ing] attention to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as devoting attention to the management of the war economy , it had by July 1942 produced a broadsheet , Planning for Social Security , which substantially anticipated the Beveridge report in calling for a national minimum income , universal family allowances , a national health service and a Ministry of Social Security . |
| 2 | Drawing attention to a monograph by the International Agency for Research on Cancer which concluded that the only true protection against asbestos ' carcinogenicity was a ban , Levinson pointed out that this was the view of the best medical expertise . |
| 3 | ’ One way of drawing attention to a firm , or a brand , in general terms is to develop a symbol , or logo , by which everyone can recognise it . |
| 4 | In the meantime , we will conclude by drawing attention to a number of serious weaknesses in the strategy on which it is based . |
| 5 | To this he added a determination that existing regulations which restricted the number and quality of foreign seamen employed on British ships should he enforced and strengthened , drawing attention to the abuse whereby shipowners discharged British seamen at foreign ports and hired cheaper foreign crews to replace them and to the need to repeal the Indian Merchant Shipping Act which permitted owners to employ lascars on worse terms than British seamen . |
| 6 | The environmental advantages of privately-run water supply services were also far from clear , with European reports drawing attention to the pollution of Britain 's rivers and beaches . |
| 7 | In this category is the reprint of ‘ Settling Accounts With Subcultures ’ , the classic feminist critique of the early youth studies of Dick Hebdige and Paul Wallis , which also insists innovatively on drawing attention to the relationship between the personal history of an author and his or her theoretical work . |
| 8 | In another reinterpretation , in 1874 , the Rev. Sedley Taylor of Cambridge talked of the trial of Galileo , drawing attention to the possibility of a forged Inquisition minute , and the probability therefore that Galileo ought to have been acquitted whatever one thought of the general merits of his theories ; his condemnation was the fault of a dirty tricks brigade rather than of the Church . |
| 9 | A group of schoolchildren are drawing attention to the threat to tropical rainforests by composing their own ecological symphony . |
| 10 | Feminists questioned this , drawing attention to the contribution to wealth made by women 's unpaid labour in the home . |
| 11 | Drawing attention to the cost of UN peacekeeping operations in the last 12 months , estimated to total US$3,000 million , Boutros-Ghali urged members to reflect on the organization 's financial crisis , prompted by outstanding dues totalling US$908,000,000 in regular contributions with a further US$845,000,000 due in peacekeeping contributions . |
| 12 | The metaphor is unusual , drawing attention to the invitation to whitewash , cover up , turn a blind eye to evil . |
| 13 | This argument , however , is countered by drawing attention to the passage in Emendatio Vitae ( c.11 ) describing singular love : which shows that he conceived of an unlimited and thus , literally , unfulfilled desire for God . |
| 14 | For him the reworking of familiar images is not simply a matter of drawing attention to the way in which mass-reproduction numbs the optic nerves , by shocking the spectator with a moustached Mona Lisa , but rather , using a peculiar blend of both iconoclasm and a sort of wry homage , of investigating the power of certain images , particularly those which have national resonance . |
| 15 | Her face was flushed , her hair a tumbled mass on the pillow , her breathing quick and uneven , drawing attention to the rise and fall of her breasts . |
| 16 | On 16th April 1973 the estate agents had written to the defendants drawing attention to the existence of the counter-inflationary measures then in force and concluding with the sentence : ‘ I would also confirm that should you be successful in acquiring these premises then it will be necessary for us to look to you for payment of our fees as based on the commercial scales of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . ’ |
| 17 | For the present exhibition , Thompson is drawing attention to the decade which witnessed the maturity of Minimalism and the emergence of Conceptual Art . |
| 18 | A few cases have already been cited in which late classical jurists used the word ‘ precatory ’ as a shorthand for a trust disposition , drawing attention to the request made by the settlor . |
| 19 | His words were the signal for Lord Hartington to send champagne in to the press room at Cheltenham , acknowledging the role of journalists in drawing attention to the problem . |
| 20 | But , talk to Stevely on the subject of how well he has taught them and this most modest of men will go off at a tangent , drawing attention to the extent to which both girls have been prepared to work . |
| 21 | Drawing attention to the Countryside Fire Code , he also urges people not to light fires unless it is safe to do so . |
| 22 | For example British ministers of transport are fond of drawing attention to the view that on some criteria the UK has the safest roads in Europe . |
| 23 | ‘ . ’ He is drawing attention to the fact that ‘ I know ’ is sometimes used by a speaker to commit himself to the truth of what he proceeds to say . |
| 24 | My hon. Friend the Member for Devon , North ( Mr. Speller ) began by drawing attention to the fact that he has always been generous in his praise of the constituency record of Jeremy Thorpe . |
| 25 | Surely the hon. Gentleman would expect an inspector commenting on school buildings to do so in proper context by drawing attention to the fact that deterioration , about which we are all concerned , has been prevalent for 40 or 50 years , and sometimes much longer . |
| 26 | Demonstrators on a march in Hong Kong on April 5 , organized by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democracy Movement in China , were urged by leading liberal Yeung Sum to cherish freedom of speech while they could , and to continue drawing attention to the denial of such freedom in China . |
| 27 | There are several other means of drawing attention to the difference between these adjectives and the predicate qualifiers , with which the risk of confusion may be greatest . |
| 28 | Nigel Parton concludes a carefully argued and wide-ranging chapter by drawing attention to the importance of prevention and treatment . |
| 29 | By drawing attention to the need for funds the ambulance service hopes to spark a debate on where the money should come from … health authorities , the NHS , or the Government . |
| 30 | In view of the scarcity of historic town gardens , it is worth drawing attention to the precedent of the garden of the Paca House in Annapolis , capital of Maryland , USA . |