Example sentences of "[det] than justice " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merrill felt her heart tilt as he said softly , ‘ But the setting does no more than justice to the subject . ’ |
| 2 | They did more than justice to the varying moods of Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet Suite No 2 , although there were odd moments when the orchestra were not precisely together , notably at the start of The Young Juliet section . |
| 3 | But Orrell did themselves less than justice and such was their nervous frustration that Hynes , the loose head , and flanker Ashurst were publicly warned by referee Griffith . |
| 4 | But to refer to Wladek as ‘ a typical representative of the culturally passive mass which constitutes in every civilised society the enormous majority of the population ’ is to do less than justice to a tale which is at times very lively indeed and which was surely not written by any ‘ passive ’ sort of person . |
| 5 | If the book does less than justice to large , complex organisms one can argue that sub specie aeternitatis the authors may have got it about right ! |
| 6 | One should therefore be cautious about generalisations which do less than justice to the contribution which friendship can make to the well-being of specific groups of old people . |
| 7 | We shall not be satisfied with a theory which does less than justice to the biblical view of the nature of man , but at the same time we need to be sure that we really have grasped the biblical view , and not just read our own ideas into it . |
| 8 | This , I believe , does less than justice to their egalitarianism . |
| 9 | Shinwell 's remarks did less than justice to both men who , in their own fashion , had a genuine concern for the welfare of seamen and their organisation . |
| 10 | Here she did him less than justice . |
| 11 | But by portraying those of us who have sought conductive education for our children as unthinking lemmings dashing off for a dose of Hungarian miracle water , Dr Oliver 's polemic does us — and conductive education — less than justice . |
| 12 | I often told him — and so did Tate — that he did himself less than justice by being content to stand in Tate 's shadow . |
| 13 | But they do less than justice to this remarkable donkey . |