Example sentences of "address itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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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 In addressing itself to such possibilities , however , A Bend in the River , for all its air of simplicity , is never simple .
4 If anything it is more open to criticism for solely addressing itself to these areas .
5 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 , .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 And the political culture is one that provides government with the breathing space necessary to address itself to those problems .
10 The tradition thus has a double intent : on the one had it engages in the primary sociological task of describing and documenting the ‘ state of society ’ ; on the other hand it addresses itself to central social and political issues .
11 Yet to me it is more quietly impressive than all the grand ‘ exegi monumentum ’ gestures , since it refuses to turn outward to time , or the world , but addresses itself with complete absorption to its subject .
12 Douglas Hurd 's announcement on Friday that he will try to tighten up the law relating to the licensing of these parties should certainly address itself to that aspect of the problem .
13 Gross Domestic Fixed Capital Formation is so heterogeneous that any explanation must address itself to particular components .
14 One can only speculate about the line the UK legislature would take , should it address itself to this problem , except that it is not too difficult to predict that the present administration would change the law so as to minimise the protections afforded to the worker .
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