Example sentences of "address [pn reflx] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At no time had she addressed herself to the credibility or otherwise of anything in the report . |
| 2 | The courts have also addressed themselves to the question of whether natural justice or fairness applies to matters of a legislative nature . |
| 3 | Having addressed themselves to the army and the treasury , the authorities turned to the Orthodox Church . |
| 4 | The absence of any coherent and agreed philosophy for the media in many African countries is a matter which is of obvious concern to many of that continent 's politicians as well as its media professionals , and a number of African leaders have addressed themselves to the problem . |
| 5 | Well , well , well , Captain , I nearly did you a great injustice a minute or two ago , I thought you had not perhaps addressed yourself to the problem on hand . |
| 6 | There was certainly no implication in classical criminology , as there was to be in positivist , that we can ignore the content and operation of legal rules in addressing ourselves to the question of the causes and treatment of crime . |
| 7 | By the end of the 1850s the state had an additional reason for addressing itself to the fate of priests . |
| 8 | Begin by addressing yourself to the problem . |
| 9 | However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive . |
| 10 | Property speculators in particular are addressing themselves to the question of what is to be done with the vast stretches of land once occupied by watch towers , border guards , dogs and rabbits . |
| 11 | Pogodin addressed himself to the spectre of peasant unrest in April and May 1855 and called upon the government to allow freedom of expression . |
| 12 | At lunch-time he addressed himself to the kitchen cupboards and the refrigerator and was touched , though not surprised , at how spartan was the fare that Pooley allowed himself . |
| 13 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 14 | My neighbour , poxy-face , addressed himself to the fascist . |
| 15 | The film I watched ( 4 May ) addressed itself to the government 's 30-page pamphlet Protect and Survive . |
| 16 | As Foucault ( 1977 : 16 ) put it , punishment no longer addressed itself to the body of the criminal , but to the soul . |
| 17 | She addressed herself to the boy now . |
| 18 | She addressed herself to the task with her usual imperiousness and dragged Owen and Mahmoud along in her wake . |
| 19 | In the course of the paper I addressed myself to the question : ‘ Why is it that people unhesitatingly talk of feeling hot as well as of feeling the heat of things ? ’ |
| 20 | In this short debate , we have to address ourselves to the question whether the discount of 25 per cent . |
| 21 | It was n't , however , until summer had faded that he could at last feel he was his own man again and was able to address himself to the present . |
| 22 | Any such scheme must also plan for permanent accommodation and personal assistance ; indeed it was the difficult experience of getting district councils within their area to house people who had tried out the transition project and wanted to live independently which prompted one SSD to address itself to the task of influencing local housing authorities . |
| 23 | The report 's authors claim that all three major political parties have failed to address themselves to the country 's ‘ housing emergency ’ . |
| 24 | v. Wilts U.D. , but he addresses himself to the question and uses his intelligence . |
| 25 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 26 | Chapter seven , the hinge by which The Form opens to this level of significance , directly addresses itself to the essence of the contemplative life — certainty of being , through which all experience is transfigured to joy . |
| 27 | On the other hand , a court of equity addresses itself to the amount of costs that the mortgagee should be allowed as a condition of redemption . |
| 28 | In the meantime , let us address ourselves to the problem of those poor souls on the fo'c's'le . |
| 29 | Will he address himself to the fact that no less than 44 per cent . |
| 30 | In addition , it will address itself to the relationship between labour management and performance . |