Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [art] subject " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thoughts ( obsessions ) may be senseless in themselves , or merely a matter of indifference to the subject ; often they are completely silly , and invariably they are the starting-point of a strenuous mental activity , which exhausts the patient and to which he only surrenders himself most unwillingly . |
| 2 | 5.4.3 To clean the Premises and keep them in a clean neat and tidy condition and ( without prejudice to the generality of the above ) to clean both sides of all windows and window frames in the Premises [ at least [ once ] every [ week ] or as often as is [ reasonably ] necessary ] It is quite easy to devote a whole chapter to the subject of repair and the Law Commission has recently published a consultation paper on the state and condition of leasehold property with a view to considering existing obligations and how the law can be improved with regard to them . |
| 3 | The illumination of the background should be set to a somewhat lower level than that for the foreground to give depth to the scene and add prominence to the subject . |
| 4 | I would call genealogy … a form of history which can account for the constitution of knowledges , discourses , domains of objects etc. , without having to make reference to a subject which is either transcendental in relation to the field of events or runs in its empty sameness throughout the course of history . |
| 5 | It is important to bear in mind the wide range of inter-agency linkages that may be necessary without reference to the subject matter of those linkages . |
| 6 | Only those leasehold covenants which " touch and concern the land " or , in its statutory form ( see ss. 141 and 142 , Law of Property Act 1925 , below , p. 108 ) , which have " reference to the subject matter " of that lease , may be enforced by , or against , assignees of either the lease ( T2 ) or of the reversion ( L2 ) . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) Invent a title in two parts ( as in section 1.6 ) , making sure that it indicates your attitude to the subject matter . |
| 8 | Both fulfil the same syntactic role ( as an adjectival pre-modifier ) , and both make a similar semantic modification to the subject . |
| 9 | So mostly it is wise to direct the child to the subject . |
| 10 | Another arcade adventure based on a film but at least this time it bears a little relevance to the subject matter . |
| 11 | The patterns of public accountability in the British constitutional set-up are extremely complex , and all I have been able to do here is to alert you to some key issues of relevance to the subject matter of this book . |
| 12 | If the record is computerised , the Data Protection Act 1984 does not give any right to the subject to ensure disclosure . |
| 13 | Carry out the breathing and body consciousness/relaxation ( Steps 1 to 4 ) then direct your attention to the subject . |
| 14 | If you are talking about marketing pot plants , then some of the sample plants will help to draw your audience 's attention to the subject . |
| 15 | Our attention to the subject is unnerving , particularly when the subject is a naked child . |
| 16 | Of particular importance to the subject of this paper , they emphasize in their summary that the client in the studies reviewed ‘ is engaged as a voluntary collaborator ’ , and his ‘ motivations were directed toward what the social workers were attempting to provide ’ . |
| 17 | The Sun devoted an angry leader to the subject , demanding : ‘ The jumped-up jackass who sacked Alex Bryson should be tied to the tracks . ’ |
| 18 | So that is an important limitation to the subject of my talk : I am concerned with training European teachers to teach their mother tongue in British secondary schools . |
| 19 | No doubt it is part of the function of the national court to assess the strength of the challenge to the national law in question , and to weigh both the possibility of damage in the interim to the subject if the law in question is enforced against him , and the possibility of damage to the public interest if the law is not so enforced . |
| 20 | Being able to put a name to a subject is something that is beyond the capabilities of any current computer system . |
| 21 | He accused the two main parties of paying lip service to the subject and promised his party would ‘ clean up beaches and coastlines by ensuring full treatment of all sewage ’ . |
| 22 | He accused the two main parties of paying lip service to the subject and promised his party would ‘ clean up beaches and coastlines by ensuring full treatment of all sewage ’ . |
| 23 | The imaginary relation between individuals and their real conditions is founded in the illusion that the ‘ recognition ’ is free ; what is obscured is the subjection to the Subject that is necessary and unavoidable . |
| 24 | The study includes a chapter on chlorine production and a section explaining what organochlorines are to introduce the lay person to the subject . |
| 25 | It bore no relationship to the subject of the conversation . |
| 26 | An introduction and overview of antibodies as analytical tools to study environmental compounds , makes both a comprehensive and readable opening to the subject . |
| 27 | This project aims to apply the methods of modern economics to the subject matter of classical constitutional theory and so analyse in some detail the implications of alternative constitutional provisions such as bicameralism , the separation of powers , parliamentary procedures and political parties . |
| 28 | " Ownership " is a word of many meanings , but in the present context we can take it to signify a title to a subject matter … |
| 29 | There is now a considerable literature on the public schools , none of which unfortunately comes to grips with what seems , with respect to the subject of this book , to be perhaps the central issue : the fact that for a hundred years , from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth , the British governing classes were educated in an atmosphere which combined the toleration of a merciless brutality with perpetual exhortations to be good . |
| 30 | In Russian , both Ivan videl Borisa and Borisa videl Ivan mean ‘ John saw Boris ’ , because -a marks Boris as the object , regardless of its position with respect to the subject and verb . |