Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what was easier than to assume that those who represented the stage of childhood or adolescence in the development of civilisation were themselves ‘ child-like ’ and had to be treated like children by their mature ‘ parents ’ ? |
| 2 | But the Church Fathers who compiled the present New Testament were themselves aware of , and had access to , other , earlier and more historically reliable versions . |
| 3 | Members of the conspiracy were themselves well aware in advance that their attempt would have little popular backing . |
| 4 | The Minoan religion was itself in transition , and we can see the humanoid deities as more evolved than the daemons , who were older nature-spirits . |
| 5 | You will hear how Farmer Dune was himself eaten by a group of pigs . |
| 6 | This defeat was itself part of the wider eclipse of state medicine in the 1870s and 1880s , which opened the space for purity groups to push for their own conception of sexual reform through the criminal law . |
| 7 | In the same letter to Katkov Dostoevsky also claimed that the murder was itself the merest peg ; ‘ I am only taking the accomplished fact ’ ; and he went on to assert that the human type ‘ which corresponds to this crime ’ was the creature of his imagination . |
| 8 | Within the territory of England proper , the only surviving separate language was Cornish , and it is significant that this linguistic divergence was itself an issue during political troubles in the mid sixteenth century : one plea which the Cornish rebels made in 1549 in favour of the traditional liturgy was that ‘ we the Cornyshe men ( whereof certen of us understande no Englysh ) utterly refuse thys newe Englysh ’ ( 73 , p. 135 ) . |
| 9 | Held , dismissing both appeals , the tape recording of an interview was itself the primary exhibit , although as a matter of convenience it was usual for the prosecution , with the consent of the defence , to provide an abbreviated transcript of its contents for the use of the court and the jury . |
| 10 | The College was itself uneasy about the lack of ‘ coordinated opinion ’ among three engineering boards which had recently visited it , and an Academic Board sub-committee considered that undue emphasis had been given to the question of policy for full-time and sandwich courses , ‘ to the detriment of more important issues involved in the preparation of courses of degree level ’ . |
| 11 | This division of labour was itself the product of the growing complexity of the social organism . |
| 12 | After a while he became more the professor than the professor was himself — just by observing the distinguished man and taking his being into and upon himself … yes , I have never forgotten that . |
| 13 | He relied upon the fact that the evidence of Price , although ( if accepted ) it implicated the applicant in the commission of the relevant offences , did not provide any evidence that the applicant was himself in Sweden at the time when those offences were committed . |
| 14 | Regardless of its exact status the telephone administration was itself largely responsible for setting technical standards , negotiating with international authorities and regulating many details of equipment and services . |
| 15 | Namphy 's administration was itself overthrown on Sept. 18 in a further military coup led by Brig. -Gen . |
| 16 | Namphy 's administration was itself overthrown on Sept. 18 in a further military coup led by Brig. -Gen . |
| 17 | Landing the headquarters at the Old Entrance was itself a miracle of seamanship among the blazing wrecks and heavy fire directed at the MGB . |
| 18 | The breaks from this routine of work were themselves predictable . |
| 19 | The law was itself productive : seeking out and redefining forms of dangerous or ‘ deviant ’ sexuality , organizing the cultural experience of dominated groups and stimulating their political demands . |
| 20 | These authors also found evidence for hot gas and dark matter extending beyond the visible galaxies , and their work was itself the subject of a News and Views article . |
| 21 | The north was defined as all regions outside the South East , East Anglia and the South West ( the omission of the West Midlands from the south was itself an indication of just how much the geography of manufacturing industry had changed ) . |
| 22 | This pessimism may have some truth given the present management approach within our schools but it is suggested here that if that managerial frame of reference was itself to be radically re-oriented , then teachers ' perceptions of their own professionality would also be powerfully affected and they may indeed come to feel that effective classroom activity was positively related to their performance in the wider school context . |
| 23 | The most I 'd allowed myself to see of the inside of that room during his three months at Sleet was himself half naked ruled into a margin of light . |
| 24 | After a voir dire the judge admitted the oral admissions but excluded the written confession , because ( a ) the breaches of C 11.5 and 11.6 were relatively trivial ; ( b ) it would have been impracticable to have a contemporaneous note of the conversation and there was therefore no breach of C 11.3(b) ( ii ) ; ( c ) Findlay was shown the notes as recorded in the custody record and there was no need to record the refusal in the pocket book as well ; ( d ) there was a serious breach of section 58 and Code C 6.3 in ordering Findlay to be kept incommunicado without sufficient reason and therefore although the interview leading to the written confession was itself fairly conducted the confession would be excluded . |
| 25 | The sheer pace of accumulation was itself a mixed blessing . |
| 26 | No cause of death is given , but we may make an informed guess , for all that , that a man whose elder brother had been carried off by consumption was himself the victim of that ‘ white plague ’ which accounted for one-third of all deaths in the early years of the 19th century . |
| 27 | It explored the meanings of ‘ independence ’ and confronted the argument that the Council was itself a myth and the reality was the powerful and almost autonomous subject boards . |
| 28 | ‘ For those who think that this is window dressing , I pause to remind you that not so long ago the Lord Chancellor was himself the subject of judicial review proceedings , ’ he added . |
| 29 | All the participants in the secret group were themselves arrested within days . |
| 30 | The stretch of road where the crash took place was itself finished only two years ago . |