Example sentences of "[noun] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | However most practitioners of literary stylistics , including Halliday himself on a later occasion ( Halliday 1971 ) , would insist on supplementing the comparative approach just described with some kind of functional analysis — analysis , that is , that asks what the language of a text does , how it contributes to the meaning and effect of the whole . |
| 2 | I 've got two of them , the other one 's er cut himself on a bottle this morning , he 's been in the vE T all day , he 's just had |
| 3 | He had used the same reply himself on occasion . |
| 4 | It 's one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated . |
| 5 | Due mid-September also is a double album of ‘ Haçienda Classics ’ , from New Order to Marshall Jefferson , and it 's all topped off with a party at the club itself on Sept 14 . |
| 6 | Some art historians detect the hand of Leonardo himself on the canvas , and it 's now generally accepted to be the most perfect version of the Last Supper in existence . |
| 7 | During his stay , he set to work himself on the principle divide et impera . |
| 8 | A similar clarification was made by Menem himself on Jan. 8 when he also suggested the possibility that he might make an official visit to the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | The dialect is still very unlike Dutch itself on levels of phonology , morphology and lexis itself . |
| 10 | This positive conviction carried with it the rejection of any attempt to compromise with other sources , authorities or norms , or to establish theology itself on any other foundation . |
| 11 | Dialectical Theology thus set out to reverse the approach , and in particular to emphasise , first , the ‘ Godness of God ’ ; second , the reality of the Word of God in Jesus Christ ; third , the impossibility of building theology itself on any other foundation . |
| 12 | The bell-lamp in the passage looked as clear as a soap-bubble ; you could see yourself in all the tables , and French-polish yourself on any one of the chairs . |
| 13 | Here you can relax in a pine lodge overlooking a lovely garden , or sun yourself on the semi-circular sun terrace . |
| 14 | In particular , there is a need for clear guidance on the reporting by companies themselves on inherent uncertainties and statements of directors ' responsibilities . |
| 15 | It considered that the quotas must be regarded as limitations imposed by the institutions of the European Communities themselves on the right , created by article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 16 | Originally released by Commodore themselves on cartridge back in 1983 ! ( good year for music ) When re-released on tape and disk five years later by CRL , it was still good enough to earn 86% . |
| 17 | you can always do some little motif yourself on it |
| 18 | The vote was made at the request of Mitsotakis after he dismissed Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and assumed the post himself on April 13 . |
| 19 | Then they and the Russian had deposed him and installed the Shah himself on the throne in 1941 . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's too busy preening himself on acquiring the prettiest serving-maid for miles around . |
| 21 | And I wish to argue further that in using drama to promote the individual 's growth we have inadvertently distorted drama itself on two counts . |
| 22 | But support for the Americans came from a wider section of the English people than the intellectuals : the presence of discharged and wounded soldiers created a loathing of war itself on humanitarian grounds . |
| 23 | This means that the process of totalization must be kept moving by the critical investigation itself on which it comes to depend but which by the same token it can never subsume . |
| 24 | Every separatist movement in Europe that I can think of bases itself on ‘ ethnicity ’ , linguistic or not , that is to say on the assumption that ‘ we ’ — the Basques , Catalans , Scots , Croats , or Georgians are a different people from the Spaniards , the English , the Serbs or the Russians , and therefore we should not live in the same state with them . |
| 25 | MacDonald told him that if he had tried to stop it , there would have been a riot , and that it had required all his influence to prevent his followers from singing the ‘ Red Flag ’ in the House of Commons itself on the night the Baldwin Government fell . |
| 26 | As you cruise the waterways on a luxury motor launch feast your eyes on the illuminated city and feast yourself on a delightful 4 course dinner — aperitif , wine and liqueur included . |
| 27 | The four-piece ensemble ( Keith Peberdy on bass ; Alan Dodgson on guitar ; Stuart Ellerton on drums and Bone himself on saxes ) just turn-up and play no rehearsal beforehand which means their jazz is totally spontaneous . |
| 28 | ( Rom 8 ) Not only are there the promises of Jesus himself on which to base this expectation but there is the evidence of the resurrection . |
| 29 | His pedigree may be long , but nevertheless here he is on piano and electronic keyboards leading his own band for the first time on disc with the driving drums of Jeff ‘ Tain ’ Watts ( also of Branford Marsalis group fame ) , Branford himself on tenor sax , Roderick Ward ( alto sax ) , Charnett Moffett , Chris McBridge , Robert Hurst or Andy Gonzales ( all alternating on bass ) , Jerry Gonzales ( percussion ) and on one track Steve Berrios and on two Don Alias ( both on drums , percussion ) . |
| 30 | But that does n't put Tommaso himself on a straight path . |