Example sentences of "[coord] apply [pn reflx] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 2 | When Knox became a fellow of King 's in 1909 he inherited the then deceased Headlam 's work on Herodas and applied himself to the fragmentary texts of the Herodas papyri in the British Museum . |
| 3 | Her stepsister settled in England , conformed outwardly , and applied herself to the advancement of her plump , dull son . |
| 4 | While the films made at the beginning of the war appealed for people to forget selfish desires and apply themselves to the common good , to put aside class divisions in order to confront an enemy that threatened everyone equally , the Gainsborough films addressed themselves to the frustrations and the pain that came after continuous self-sacrifice . |
| 5 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |