Example sentences of "to [be] alert to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In commercial computer applications , he believes sound will be particularly important in collaborative tasks , where people need to be alert to what colleagues are doing , without having it distractingly thrust upon their attention . |
| 2 | In the end , the damage done to botanical habitats by the I.D.P. was minimal , but it does demonstrate the need for all botanists to be alert to future threats to the environment , even in more remote locations such as the Outer Hebrides . |
| 3 | Exactly the same is true of ageism and everyone needs to be alert to their often unconscious ageist attitudes . |
| 4 | In the first instance , there is a need to be alert to the potential for , and presence of , crime in conventional and ordinary settings . |
| 5 | The senior staff also need to be alert to other problems , such as illness and personal worries which interfere with learning . |
| 6 | For organisations like the Runnymede Trust , it is crucial to be alert to the various fronts upon which racism appears , and offer whatever support we can to those who want to challenge it . |
| 7 | To do this we need to be alert to the processes going on within society and the economy , what range of alternatives is available , who can and should take part in the decision-making process , and what the effects of the various possible outcomes might be . |
| 8 | With both , it is important to keep an open mind and to be alert to the various clues and pointers to meaning that appear as the communication unfolds . |
| 9 | It is wise to be alert to this , and to stand your ground if asked to work in an area which is beyond your present capabilities . ’ |
| 10 | The decision that Shakespeare faced hundreds of times — whether to put his words , as Dryden expressed it , into verse or into ‘ the other harmony of prose ’ — is one that the reader ought always to be alert to , for each decision signals an element of dramatic meaning that we can yet recover . |
| 11 | Third parties need to be alert to the possibility of change and to the actual practices of the body . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , third parties need to be alert to the dynamism of an organisation and realise it might have generated its own practices and activities , which need not necessarily be encompassed by the constitutive treaty . |
| 13 | Of course not all of the elderly of the future will be relatively affluent , and , to repeat , we need to be alert to inequalities among the elderly — between age cohorts and within them : the cohorts who will be bringing more occupational pensions and owner-occupied houses into old age will also bring in experience of early retirement and early run-down of resources due to unemployment . |
| 14 | ‘ Organisations move on , diversifying , moving into new activities , restructuring , ’ said Hardie , ‘ and they have to be alert to new risks . ’ |
| 15 | We need to be alert to all aspects of our environment if we are to live sanely in the world . |
| 16 | On the resumption Kilkeel were awarded three consecutive penalty corners but they were unable to add to their slender advantage , and the direct long ball tactic from Service meant that Kilkeel always had to be alert to the breakaway . |
| 17 | Managers need to be alert to the influences that in combination persuade staff to take ( and condone others taking ) short cuts through the safety rules and procedures because , mistakenly , the perceived benefits outweigh the risks , and they have perhaps got away with it in the past . |