Example sentences of "address [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The new release of PageMaker has addressed itself to four main areas in which users felt the product was lacking ; long documents , repetitive formats , graphics and colour , as well as adding additional features such as text export and enhanced file import facilities . |
| 2 | Essentially the court is concerned whether the decision-making body has addressed itself to all relevant factors . |
| 3 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 4 | As yet he was n't used to the title ; indeed , he was perhaps the first to have addressed him as such . |
| 5 | AE 's sometimes addressed themselves to irate people who said they would never invest in futures , let alone through DPR . |
| 6 | Education commission reports past and present have always addressed themselves in varying degrees of rigour to the analysis of educational objectives and it would be possible to collect an impressive dossier of high minded statements of intent . |
| 7 | It tackles this small set of problems and issues by addressing them in two localities — the old port of North Shields and the new town of Cramlington . |
| 8 | A more extreme tactic is to start addressing them in similar vein — using ‘ my dear ’ or something worse back ( at a seminar I attended , ‘ baby ’ was suggested … but if it 's your boss you 're dealing with you may need to decide whether your job 's worth it ) . |
| 9 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 10 | Meaning is not simply in an utterance , irrespective of the participants : to understand it we must take into account the inter-subjectivity of the participants , addressing ourselves to such questions as who controls the meaning and the nature of the reference . |
| 11 | In addressing ourselves to this process , we are not speculating . |
| 12 | The biblical perspective of divine revelation is of God speaking at specific times addressing himself to particular situations . |
| 13 | In addressing itself to such possibilities , however , A Bend in the River , for all its air of simplicity , is never simple . |
| 14 | If anything it is more open to criticism for solely addressing itself to these areas . |
| 15 | His head went back and he laughed at her mutinous expression , the glint in his eyes deepening , before leaning forward again and addressing her with quiet insistence . |
| 16 | But here — since he had not the slightest intention of addressing anything but common courtesy towards Miss Skelton — he could allow that sympathy to exercise itself . |
| 17 | Rostov addressed them in colonial argot and they grinned in response . |
| 18 | He addressed them in short , pithy sentences and promptly began his interrogation of each of them . |
| 19 | Vive l'Impératrice ! ’ , until at one moment the Emperor stopped and addressed himself to those nearest saying courteously : ‘ If you want to please your Emperor , I would ask you to cry ‘ Vive la Reine ’ . ’ |
| 20 | A much more specific fear was that young people would be provoked into imitative crime by the daring exploits witnessed on the screen , and the National Council of Public Morals addressed itself with particular vigour to the belief ‘ that the picture house is responsible for the increase in juvenile crime , and that boys are often led to imitate crimes ( larceny or burglary ) which they have seen in the pictures , or to steal money that they may pay for admission , . |
| 21 | The committee addressed itself to two main interlocking problems : the central issue of the relationship between the individual local authorities and the polytechnics and other colleges , and the ‘ pooling ’ arrangements by which advanced courses were financed . |
| 22 | A number of COS district branches soon began to form themselves into separate committees for this purpose , and in 1902 a Central Industrial Bureau was opened which , under pressure from increased applications from boys as well as girls , addressed itself to both sexes . |
| 23 | The committee addressed itself to three issues : the absolute price-level of CDs ; the price difference between CDs and cassettes ; and the price difference between CDs in America and Britain . |
| 24 | A letter from Mary Evans , possibly written at George Coleridge 's suggestion , begged him to give up his plans for emigration , and addressed him with painful tenderness as ‘ her best-beloved Brother ’ . |
| 25 | The youngster addressed him with condescending friendliness , and got a morose answer . |
| 26 | Convinced for some reason that he must be called Paul , I addressed him as such . |
| 27 | ‘ I wrote a postcard to my parents , ’ recalls Margaret Olmer ; ‘ I ca n't remember if I addressed it to both . |
| 28 | The principles as civil proceedings and the topic is now run by it goes on and that mainly deals with criminal material and then one can pick it up at paragraph thirty two er seventeen when er the authors addressed themselves to civil proceedings er and that er following passage deals with effects of the civil evidence act and the relevant procedures and then moving on my Lord to er to in fact , thirty two thirty nine on page eighty hundred and twenty nine the expert has furnished the judge or jury with the necessary scientific criteria for testing the accuracy of her conclusion so that to enable the judge or jury to perform their own independent judgement by the application of these criteria to the facts proved in evidence . |
| 29 | Another , more austerely intellectual , centre was Elea , which gave its name to the Eleatic school whose most famous representatives ( Zeno , who is not the same Zeno as the fourth-century founder of Stoicism ; and Parmenides ) addressed themselves to philosophical problems of being and identity . |
| 30 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |