Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recognition of Saxon settlements , not under medieval villages but in open sites which were later abandoned , has also indicated that settlement patterns themselves have altered and the desertion of individual settlements within the pattern , even in quite recent times , means that settlement patterns are as dynamic and changing as the settlements themselves . |
| 2 | The structure of the complex also shows evidence for recognition by the repressor of sequence-dependent distortions or flexibility of the phosphodiester backbone , which could mediate sequence specificity where the base pairs themselves are inaccessible . |
| 3 | The Warner brothers themselves were vehemently against racist organizations and they could be proud of the movie . |
| 4 | The commission is a preliminary vetting and investigatory body which , in addition to entertaining references from states parties themselves ( Art.24 ) , ‘ may receive petitions … from any person , non-governmental organisation or group of individuals claiming to be the victim of a violation by one of the High Contracting Parties … ’ |
| 5 | Collective bargaining determines wages and working conditions , and also regulates the relationship between the bargaining parties themselves . |
| 6 | As well as the interests and objectives of the bargaining parties themselves , an additional influence favouring single-employer bargaining structures in the USA relates to the role of state policy . |
| 7 | In explaining the shape of the bargaining structure in Japan , as with the industry-wide structures in Europe and the decentralised arrangements in the United States , the wishes and expressed policies of the bargaining parties themselves would appear to have been a predominant factor . |
| 8 | Some of the designer 's ideas about what would happen and what pupil and teacher activities might occur were : ( i ) children and teachers would be amused by the screen presentation ( ii ) that the screen might dominate the situation ( iii ) that teachers would possibly be engaged in a new activity ( iv ) it could be used across a range of teachers and children ( v ) children would be busy drawing graphs themselves ( vi ) discussion on the interpretation of the graphs would be instigated . |
| 9 | These input data uncertainties are attributable to a number of sources ranging from errors in the original cartographic map documents through to the effects of the GIS operations themselves . |
| 10 | Protein molecules themselves , however , are not immortal : they are broken down , and must be replaced . |
| 11 | A moralistic middle-class press or the civic or football authorities themselves would never have ignored systematic gang-violence either in football grounds or around them . |
| 12 | In the same way , patterns in the DNA four-letter code have effects , for instance on eye colour or behaviour , but these effects are not inherent in the DNA data patterns themselves . |
| 13 | Interestingly enough , sociologists have noted the emergence of an Adornian distinction between ‘ commercial manipulation ’ and avant-garde ‘ authenticity ’ within the discourse of the jazz and rock communities themselves ( see Becker 1972 ; Frith 1983a : 52–88 ; 1988b ) . |
| 14 | Within the large car plants themselves , where the unions were strong and the companies were able to offer a relatively stable employment policy by shifting the troughs and peaks in the work-load out to sub-contractors , management had adopted what Friedman termed the ‘ responsible autonomy ’ strategy . |
| 15 | The Elector Counts and Burgomeisters recognised in Magnus a leader they were all prepared to follow , and soon the citizen army was swollen by provincial troops and the troops of the Elector Counts themselves . |
| 16 | Discussing how practitioners can not only be involved in research , but may conduct research studies themselves , with many potential pay-offs for workers , managers , agencies and the field , the writers suggest : The importance of the integral relationship between research and practice was also the subject of discussion by Lord Rothschild , head of the Central Policy Review Staff whose paper ‘ The organisation and management of Government research and development ’ ( 1971 ) did much to lay the foundations of the structure of research in the public sector . |
| 17 | Engines and transmissions are usually made by car firms themselves , but with larger production runs than for cars , so the small scale of overseas car output makes it still sensible to import most of these things from Japan . |
| 18 | Search consultants themselves claimed that their business did markedly increase — in the number of new clients as well as in terms of the number of individual assignments — as a result of the Big Bang , and that the level of their work has continued to grow steadily , in spite of subsequent national economic changes . |
| 19 | It is clear that although the long-term factors which favoured the professionalisation of British management and the acceptance of using outside consultants helped to prepare the ground for the spread of headhunting , the leading executive search firms themselves played a vital part in creating this new business out of nowhere . |
| 20 | As we expected , our analysis revealed contradictions between protein trees and the rRNA tree , and between protein trees themselves . |
| 21 | In this chapter we will consider the impact of the Conservative 's law and order policies on the crime rates themselves . |
| 22 | The two versions of SASPAC are not compatible , although very similar ; various changes have been made in the syntax both of command files themselves and the commands for running them on CMS . |
| 23 | Even then , of course , an indemnity is only as good as the persons required to give it : and if the equity partners themselves become bankrupt in the wake of the firm 's insolvency , the salaried partner is left exposed . |
| 24 | Most refugees go to neighbouring countries , which are often living at subsistence levels themselves . |
| 25 | Until the Uprising even the PLO leadership — albeit with a great deal of hesitation — was ready to accept the formula of a joint Jordanian and Palestinian delegation , it being understood that the Palestinian component , even though not PLO leaders themselves , would be a genuine and equal partner with the Jordanians . |
| 26 | If that turned out to be possible , it might suggest there is access from a higher level to quite remote lower-level translations , unless one was prepared to redescribe such a phenomenon in terms of our ( levels of programming language ) metaphor as ‘ This patient has found out how to access a highest level command GROW A NEW NERVE TO YOUR LEFT FOOT though without , of course , having any access to the translation of that command in terms of the nerve cell processes themselves . ’ |
| 27 | Two forms of pores are recognized , the primary pores , which develop during deposition of the sediment , and secondary pores , which develop after deposition , principally through solution of the rock particles themselves . |
| 28 | Cell members themselves seemed to be much more impervious to the danger of possible political attacks on them than their nervous counterparts in Smolensk guberniia . |
| 29 | No group claimed responsibility for the attack , but there was speculation that it might be the work either of a " freelance " splinter group in the Medellín drug cartel , or of the rival Cali drug cartel , since the Medellín cartel leaders themselves , and many of their followers , were loyal bullfight fans . |
| 30 | Almost a whole generation knew him as Curator of Sir John Soane 's Museum in London ( 1945–84 ) , where he maintained its distinctive , old-fashioned atmosphere throughout his tenure and on Saturday afternoons himself guided visitors around . |