Example sentences of "himself as to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in view of the complicated nature of the process , the person applying for a patent would be well advised to satisfy himself as to the ability of his agent . |
| 2 | If the hon. Gentleman serves on the Committee that is to consider the Bill , he will be able to reassure himself as to the way that works . |
| 3 | There are language-systems , he points out , within which that characteristic of English whereby the utterer is not obliged to commit himself as to the truth of his utterance is not to be found ; in such systems the utterer is obliged to commit himself . |
| 4 | The girl or parents who worry because menstruation has not occurred by the sixteenth year are usually troubling themselves unduly ; the boy who troubles himself as to the length of his penis or the girl who worries about mammary development are also worrying unnecessarily as a rule . |
| 5 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 6 | — the C. and A.G. satisfying himself as to the accuracy of the appropriation accounts ( s. 1(2) ) ; |
| 7 | He directed himself as to the onus of proof by saying : |