Example sentences of "[adv] draw [noun] to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’
2 One can merely draw attention to the problem here , for local arrangements were complex and varied .
3 While there were fluctuations , it seemed officers in charge did not draw attention to the periods when dependency levels were lighter .
4 The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent .
5 And then I would just draw attention to the proposals .
6 This issue of the magazine will be a positive contribution to these ongoing debates and we hope will also draw attention to the work which WASL is continuing to do in indexing information on women artists and disability .
7 Do not they also draw attention to the willingness of some countries and some parties to sign up to measures that they have no intention of implementing ?
8 According to the Finance Minister , Arne Skauge , the fund would also draw attention to the extent to which government finances were dependent on oil revenues and would ensure that in future closer attention would be paid to long-term use of the revenues .
9 We may also draw attention to the fact that it is possible logically , even if not biologically , to use old , with the same effect as it has in the phrase Charlie 's old school , in combination with the word mother ; the incongruity of the result should give us a very sharp view of the difference between the ordinary referential variation of adjectives used relativistically , and the semantic effect produced by the difference in type of relation at work in ( 33 ) and ( 34 ) .
10 If not , the reference to the terms should at least draw attention to the fact that the terms contain exclusion clauses .
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