Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to examine the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we eventually reached the Taj , I bent down to examine the inlay on the tombs more closely . |
| 2 | Three times he had to pull over to examine the map . |
| 3 | Some tests were carried out to examine the accuracy of definition of the field of view of the radiometer . |
| 4 | In order to discover how such inferences are made , we will need firstly to examine the range of possible functions of language , and secondly to try to understand how people correctly interpret them . |
| 5 | In order to discover how such inferences are made , we will need firstly to examine the range of possible functions of language , and secondly to try to understand how people correctly interpret them . |
| 6 | If one wants to explore the possibilities of Europe 's political future , one needs therefore to examine the development of European culture . |
| 7 | Having made this point , we can move on to examine the objectives and constraints associated with such enterprises . |
| 8 | A Home Office patholgist , Professor Bernard Knight , was called in to examine the body where it was found , in a section of the barn where the roof had collapsed . |
| 9 | A sample of all juvenile cases referred for criminal behaviour in one calendar month in two police force areas collected and followed up to examine the decisions taken about them . |
| 10 | The three new studies set out to examine the problem in more detail . |
| 11 | It has much to tell us of how the local landscape has developed , and we can read the clues , if we know how to examine the building and its surroundings . |
| 12 | So far as can be judged , the water supply was so poor that by September 1908 a Consulting Engineer was brought in to examine the problem although nothing further is recorded on the subject . |
| 13 | Defects in the mortar holding bricks in the outside walls of the ten year-old sports centre were discovered in 1990 after consultants were brought in to examine the building . |
| 14 | Manfred von Richthofen , president of the West Berlin Federation , said a committee will be set up to examine the possibility of a bid from the city . |
| 15 | Manfred von Richthofen , president of the West Berlin Federation , said a committee will be set up to examine the possibility of a bid from the city . |
| 16 | Another proposal was that an independent commission would be set up to examine the question of racial discrimination . |
| 17 | The committee was set up to examine the principles that should govern GCE A level syllabuses and their assessment . |
| 18 | A commission headed by the newly appointed First Deputy Prosecutor General was set up to examine the incident . |
| 19 | The Lindop Inquiry was set up to examine the maintenance of standards in the polytechnics and colleges sector of UK higher education . |
| 20 | In 1970 , an all-party Committee of the Council had been set up to examine the future of the tramway ; rising costs had once again called into question the future of winter tramway operations . |
| 21 | Other study groups have been set up to examine the data base available for decision-making and to consider possible regional structures . |
| 22 | The 1947 Royal Commission on the Press ' was , for example , established specifically to examine the degree , and the consequences , of concentration of ownership . |
| 23 | We go on to examine the firm 's dividend policy and how this affects the value of shares . |
| 24 | However in our view although many judgments pay lip service to Lord Parker 's words they do , in fact , go on to examine the adequacy of consideration as relevant to the question of reasonableness . |
| 25 | But Throgmorton went down to examine the priest 's corpse . ’ |
| 26 | To understand why the RHA became involved and wanted to force the pace , it is necessary to turn back to examine the state of affairs which was inherited by the authority from the old metropolitan health board . |
| 27 | We turn now to examine the basis for this consensus . |
| 28 | Univariate analysis was undertaken initially to examine the effect of a number of individual patient characteristics ( age , sex , body mass index , smoking , alcohol consumption , hiatus hernia , grade of oesophagitis , and presence or absence of Barrett 's oesophagus ) on the indices of oesophageal function ( oesophageal transit times , lower oesophageal sphincter pressure , oesophageal body amplitudes , durations of contraction , velocity of propagation , and acid clearance times ) . |
| 29 | We now move on to examine the question : who is equal to this task ? |
| 30 | Builders were called in to make the building safe before a Home Office Pathologist was allowed inside to examine the body . |