Example sentences of "[unc] attention to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The yard did not appreciate the significance of the words , ‘ without prejudice to our rights , ’ the owners realised that this was so and deliberately did not draw the yard 's attention to the significance of the reservation . |
| 2 | The aim of the paper was , it said , to draw the minister 's attention to the way ‘ UK Ltd ’ was helping Iraq ‘ often unwillingly but sometimes not ’ to set up a major indigenous arms industry . |
| 3 | The point of this may be to draw the hearer 's attention to the way they kept on running , perhaps against considerable odds . |
| 4 | There had been some criticism of the question and answer made by the social worker in support of the hospital admission application form on the question of practicability of getting the recommendation of a practitioner with previous acquaintance with the patient , and those responsible might wish to consider rewording the form so as to direct the social worker 's attention to the question of practicability . |
| 5 | He was briefly silent , and they both gave a moment 's attention to the incongruity of a particularly poignant song succeeding the somewhat crass commercial . |
| 6 | A Labour Party spokesman , however , has got round this little difficulty by asking the company 's current auditors and their predecessors what they did to draw the public 's attention to the problem . |
| 7 | I direct the right hon. and learned Gentleman 's attention to the Government 's overall spending on research and development . |
| 8 | May I draw my hon. Friend 's attention to the Government 's response to the Select Committee report ? |
| 9 | That is , the reformulation draws the hearer 's attention to the range of contextual assumptions which distinguish sprinting from ordinary running . |
| 10 | Ealing 's Meet Mr Lucifer ( 1953 ) defined the new medium 's effect on audiences as largely negative and , by distinguishing the communal address of cinema from television 's attention to the individual , established a line of attack that was to be much used later . |
| 11 | Jaq drew Meh'Lindi 's attention to the bio-scanner in its filigreed , jade-studded frame . |
| 12 | Reproducing these features encouraged skill in draughtsmanship : it also drew Hardy 's attention to the abundance of detail and sheer exuberance of Gothic style , characterised by Ruskin as ‘ fancifulness , love of variety , love of richness ’ . |
| 13 | Each morning her mother drew Emma 's attention to the chart and gave her a lot of praise and attention while she selected a sticker for her good behaviour . |
| 14 | I draw the Government 's attention to the Home Office standing conference on crime prevention , chaired by James Morgan , which reported in August this year . |
| 15 | No doubt both the Department of Health and the Mental Health Act Commission will take notice of the Court 's opinion that the form for application for admission under section 2 ‘ does not direct the social worker 's attention to the desirability of obtaining a recommendation from a doctor who does know the past history , diagnosis and treatment of the patient and why it has not been practicable to do so . ’ |
| 16 | If you are talking about marketing pot plants , then some of the sample plants will help to draw your audience 's attention to the subject . |
| 17 | Mr. Anthony Barrey , a barrister and a Crown prosecutor who was prosecuting in that court on that morning , drew the court 's attention to the footnote to section 7(5) in Stone 's Justices ' Manual , 121st ed. , vol. 1 , to which reference has already been made . |
| 18 | May I draw my right hon. Friend 's attention to the delegation that I led to the Lord Chancellor to consider the problem of bail bandits and light sentencing by Crown courts , and to the concern in my constituency that the Hampshire police authority is short changing the Isle of Wight in terms of the number of constables on the beat ? |
| 19 | Whereas for most Greeks and Romans , whether they believed in cycles or not , the dominant aspects of time were the present and the past , Christianity directed man 's attention to the future . |
| 20 | I now know that they are not automatically exempt from prescription charges , and I draw my hon. Friend the Minister 's attention to the recommendation of the Parkinson 's Disease Society of the United Kingdom , which I support , that sufferers should be exempt from prescription charges . |
| 21 | ( It is somewhat remarkable to note that after such stirring events , the committee went on to draw the master 's attention to the fact that a horse had been observed grazing in the paddock , which had been let for sheep only . |
| 22 | As the population becomes older , it also becomes wealthier and I draw the hon. Gentleman 's attention to the fact that the average pensioner has increased his or her income by 33 per cent . |
| 23 | I draw the hon. Gentleman 's attention to the fact that we are debating an amendment to the motion on the Queen 's Speech . |
| 24 | Is it within your power to draw the Prime Minister 's attention to the fact that his first responsibility is to the House of Commons , that there is a Prime Minister 's Question Time every Tuesday and Thursday and that we have a Foreign Secretary and a Secretary of State for Defence who are quite able to deal with international and defence commitments overseas ? |
| 25 | I draw the hon. Gentleman 's attention to the fact that the Question will be put from the Chair at the appropriate moment , That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House . |
| 26 | If this reformulation is to be justified , then we need to show that [ 12 ] yields contextual effects not yielded by [ 31 ] : It seems to me that in contrast with [ 31 ] , [ 12 ] draws the hearer 's attention to the fact that this was n't ordinary , plain running . |
| 27 | Mr Forte said the present trading difficulties had at least one benefit — in drawing the Government 's attention to the industry . |
| 28 | When paying for your wine , you do n't need to draw the assistant 's attention to the Multibuy the saving is automatically credited to your bill , even if the bottles are not entered into the till consecutively . |
| 29 | Under John Major as Prime Minister efforts have been made to bring China 's attention to the plight of pro-democracy activists . |
| 30 | The 1959 obscenity test is one of effect , which directs the jury 's attention to the extent to which a work tends to encourage such feelings of aversion or revulsion rather than of corruption or depravity . |