Example sentences of "[verb] to examine [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to examine the debate on that issue in Chapter 7 , and therefore I will not enter into it fully here . |
| 2 | Indeed we want to examine the ways in which a concept which appears to be logically fraudulent , the inner city , has sustained its central position in both popular and academic discussion of the urban . |
| 3 | It may well be that many apparently successful partnerships continue only because one party or the other does not trouble to examine the benefit they derive or the price they pay . |
| 4 | Under the NHS Acts the C & AG is required to examine , certify and report on the annual summarized accounts of NHS expenditure and he is permitted to examine the accounts , records and audit reports of the health authorities . |
| 5 | In this sense we can say that the structuring principle of all discourse is dialogue ; but we will need to examine the relationship between the word order and this dialogue more thoroughly . |
| 6 | If we wish to fulfil Charles Darwin 's ambition of understanding the reasons for the distribution of differences between the sexes , we shall need to examine the causes of variation in lifetime breeding success among males and females in natural populations . |
| 7 | Each church needs to examine the traditions which inevitably grow up around its worship to see what should be discarded as being a barrier to the one seeking God . |
| 8 | The Doctor crossed to the control panel and knelt to examine the inspection hatch . |
| 9 | The stench that the Doctor noted as he approached bore witness to the speed with which decay took place in the tropical climate , and he found that he had to clap a handkerchief over his mouth as he knelt to examine the body . |
| 10 | In the entrance of the shopping centre , I stopped to examine a taxidermist 's display . |
| 11 | Elisabeth stopped to examine a stone the dimensions of a child 's bicycle wheel , in which a huge ammonite was embedded . |
| 12 | Elisabeth stopped to examine the contents of a case containing the paraphernalia of marriage and its consummation , represented by illuminated bonds exchanged between families , and little crowns worn by the island brides . |
| 13 | He bent to examine the device . |
| 14 | The project will also seek to examine the differences in the nature of service provided at different fee levels . |
| 15 | The head has to examine the balance between expenditure on maintaining the fabric of the school and its daily servicing and expenditures on unavoidable commitments as against the occasional opportunity for one-off changes . |
| 16 | The talks were designed to examine the possibility of negotiating a new US bases agreement which would become operative on Sept. 16 , 1991 , the date of the expiry of the current lease . |
| 17 | The techniques to be presented in this chapter are designed to examine the relationship between three variables in a contingency table . |
| 18 | The study was designed to examine the performance of a Welsh rural enterprise trust ( Powys Self Help ) . |
| 19 | No information is available on the reliability of the third subtest , designed to examine the child 's optimal performance . |
| 20 | This research is designed to examine the effects of high levels of unemployment in Port Talbot ( in part the result of the redundancies ) on the social structure of that settlement . |
| 21 | In a project designed to examine the impact of tropical and subtropical agriculture on groundwater quality , the hydrogeological conditions and agricultural regimes of potential study sites in Barbados , India , Sri Lanka and Mexico have been assessed . |
| 22 | It is not our intention to supply the reader with the full details of the various initiatives ; instead we seek to examine the effect of these initiatives on organisations . |
| 23 | The Mann-Whitney test was applied to examine the difference between the scan score in active and quiescent disease . |
| 24 | Angry Pegasus resellers urged shareholders to call an emergency general meeting to examine the company 's management style , calling for the reinstatement of Hubbard-Ford . |
| 25 | He seemed to examine the word , turning it over like a rare gem . |
| 26 | He seemed to examine the word . |
| 27 | Tax inspectors should be empowered to examine a man 's bank statement as well as his credit-card dealings . |
| 28 | The very essence of the children 's hearing system is that a hearing , once it has jurisdiction in respect of a child , is empowered to examine the child 's entire social background in arriving at a decision as to disposal in the child 's best interests . |
| 29 | Second , the issue of marriage is raised , and I have sought to examine the notion , even though merely to question conventional wisdom regarding its nature already appears to go too far . |
| 30 | The writers are pretending to examine the situation , but do n't . |