Example sentences of "to examine [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Once it has been demonstrated how the logic behind the traditional fidelity to the interests of the shareholders is flawed in the context of the large public company , we are free to examine exactly the nature of the stake which shareholders and others have in the company .
2 In plain English it is more important , in an administrative context , to be seen to be doing something about a politically generated agenda of problems than it is to examine critically the agenda itself .
3 It is not the intention in this paper to examine critically the rhetoric and ideology which may be behind the government 's inclusion of these principles within its legislation .
4 The functionalist style in public law exhibits tendencies to examine critically the reasoning processes of courts and to expose the value assumptions on which they rest .
5 The purpose of this paper is to examine further the issue of open adoption or adoption with contact .
6 To examine further the association of age and anti-HEV , prevalence rates were calculated for each decade .
7 With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs .
8 The purpose of these options was to examine visually the relationship between the subject and the image .
9 Lavandera makes the point that the standard procedure in quantitative sociolinguistics would have been to start the analysis from the forms themselves rather than to examine initially the discourse contexts in which they were used .
10 The intention behind the preceding arguments was not to examine exhaustively the investment criteria to be employed by a national investment bank with socialist pretensions .
11 We now turn to examine briefly the influence of sex on the use of schools .
12 A fourth method is to examine again the appropriateness of the rules restricting actions brought by groups of plaintiffs , which would mean that the costs were spread amongst a number of people .
13 He read in silence for perhaps a minute , and then turned the scroll over to examine minutely the seal on the obverse .
14 White and Wilson also comment : ‘ Within the case studies it has not been possible to examine closely the relationship ( if any exists ) between the use of information and personal or business effectiveness .
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