Example sentences of "want [verb] attention to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I do admit to owning a bathrobe with my initials on it — and wearing green glasses for occasions when I want to draw attention to myself . |
| 2 | I must confess that I find this deeply attractive , and I want to draw attention to a few Bible passages where I think this idea is being worked out . |
| 3 | Here I want to draw attention to an article by Beverle Houston , ‘ Viewing television : the metapsychology of endless consumption ’ , which seems to me to be one of the few serious attempts to theorize television subjectivity , and one which deserves more attention . |
| 4 | Grappling with this problem , feminists who want to draw attention to women 's presence rather than simply adopting male titles have sometimes proposed completely novel words ( for instance Italian dottora , a feminine coining for ‘ doctor ’ that flouts the rules of Italian word-formation ) . |
| 5 | But what I want to draw attention to here is the failure to understand that past social beliefs were formed within the context of false beliefs about the biological relation of woman and man . |
| 6 | You can underline , colour-code , or in any other way emphasise particular parts of the word you want to draw attention to . |
| 7 | Here , I have another purpose : I want to draw attention to the fact that different variables may be used by the community to mark functions of higher and lower levels of generality . |
| 8 | I just want to draw attention to three major components within the committee report . |
| 9 | ‘ We want to draw attention to what the police have been doing , ’ he said . |
| 10 | A second general erm point that I want to draw attention to erm it goes back again to erm Filmer Filmer you 'll recall had ruled out any meaningful distinction between the private and the public erm the domestic and the political . |