Example sentences of "to [subord] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 2 | Here there may arise a conflict between two principles , one that the court will not imply a term unless it is one which reasonable men would obviously have agreed to if their minds had been directed to the point , the other that a contract should if possible be interpreted in such a way as to achieve fairness between the parties … mistake is a much more difficult problem … [ than fraud or partiality ] . |
| 3 | At these times Jane was assailed by self-doubt ; by fears as to whether their relationship would decline — for nothing human remains static . |
| 4 | Very young children present a problem in that there may be a question as to whether their parents should have exercised supervision over them . |
| 5 | Does he realise that some of these homes er are perhaps have only half their beds full which means that there are vulnerable people there , uncertain as to whether their home , their only home is going to remain er in existence . |
| 6 | These works raise a serious question as to whether their subjects are suitable cases for treatment — that is , by librettists and composers . |
| 7 | Now , they say , while the programme controllers of radio and television in Scotland , James Boyle and Colin Cameron still commission work and report to McCormick , the ultimate decision as to whether their programme strategies are accepted and funded lies with Ron Neil , the managing director of regional broadcasting in London . |
| 8 | Patients with ARF were subdivided according to whether their duration of renal failure was known to be greater than or less than 10 days . |
| 9 | The database administrator has to think very carefully when setting up numerous lists as to whether their use will justify the overheads . |
| 10 | But it was evident that an argument was taking place between the adults , possibly as to whether their need of a refrigerator was greater than their desire for a mammoth room heater . |
| 11 | About one quarter of Oxfordshire teachers are unsure as to whether their review and report had led directly to any change at all and with regard to whether it had improved teaching methods , over a third were unsure . |
| 12 | Although two thirds of Oxfordshire teachers consider that the scheme has been useful in producing proposals for change in schools , the actual changes claimed are rather nebulous and a quarter of all teachers are unsure as to whether their review has led to any changes at all . |
| 13 | Linguistic signs may be classified as denotive ( or referential ) or connotive ( or expressive ) according to whether their meaning is intellectual or emotive . |
| 14 | The issue of preferential treatment given to boys is not , however , confined to whether their examination papers are marked more favourably or whether they are allowed to talk more in classrooms . |
| 15 | And many of those who still have jobs get shorter breaks now than they used to as their firms struggle to survive in the recession . |