Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pn reflx] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear from the evidence of wills from all social classes up to the sovereign himself that society valued the spiritual input of those whose dying to worldly values ( at their enclosure the burial service was read over them ) was not regarded with jokey discomfort as disturbingly eccentric , but valued as contributing a unique gift to a total social welfare . |
| 2 | In Freudian terms these would be clear symbols of the fear of castration , but the laws of classical psychoanalytic interpretation are bent and broken in Such , and if anything it is the concept of the castration complex itself that is mutilated by its subjection to the laws of physics . |
| 3 | Researchers and observers have repeatedly suggested that , on the whole , it is in these variables rather than in the break itself that the seeds of disturbance in the child lie . |
| 4 | However , it was not the warehouse itself that was of interest , but the extensive parcel of land on which the building was situated . |
| 5 | Consideration of that impact — more attention to issues of insight and inspiration , communication and commitment — can help to humanize considerations of strategic management while restoring to leadership study itself some of the flavour that Selznick ( 1957 ) sought ( largely in vain ) to instil 30 years ago . |
| 6 | WHEN the familiar bongs rang out heralding the start of News At Ten last night it was actually the programme itself that was about to make headlines . |
| 7 | In other words , they are reacting to the ‘ coalness ’ or ‘ oilness ’ of the chemical , rather than the chemical itself This theory stretches credibility considerably , because synthetic compounds go through so many chemical reactions , distillations and purification procedures that they bear little relationship to their raw materials , let alone to each other . |
| 8 | Probably sees worse h'self most nights . ’ |
| 9 | And I 'll be at work myself most of the time . |
| 10 | The paint quality is less seductive and the technique itself less conscious . |
| 11 | Within the Federal Reserve Board itself some of the governors were known to favour a less restrictive policy , while most of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Bank presidents were believed to support high rates . |
| 12 | Such is the efficacy of propaganda for the global capitalist system that it is rarely capitalism itself that is targetted in such cases , but the symbols of American or European national power . |
| 13 | Meanwhile other details about the plans of NIREX , Britain 's new nuclear-waste authority , to dispose of nuclear waste emerged at the Sizewell inquiry itself this week . |
| 14 | Yeovil 's manager Steve Rutter said : ‘ If you could have picked the draw yourself that 's the one you would choose . |
| 15 | In this uninterrupted narrative of rowdyism and mischief running through the writings of these Christian youth workers in the 1920s and 1930s , it is not only the behaviour itself that is difficult to reconcile with the nostalgia which has come to settle around postwar perceptions of pre-war social realities . |
| 16 | Through the Lafayette — and perhaps more particularly through the heroism of Victor Chapman at Verdun — there began to develop in the United States an appreciation and sympathy for the poilus themselves such as had never been provoked by any other battle . |
| 17 | Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times . |
| 18 | What is suggested here may seem tedious and unnecessary , but it saves time and frustration in the long run , and makes the checking itself more effective and fruitful . |
| 19 | Busacher , after careful thought , had decided he would conduct the orchestra himself this evening . |
| 20 | Or , further , is it possible to incorporate in the framework of the state itself some provision or institution by which a governmental act or command ultra vires may be declared to be such , and subjects therefore exempted from its operation and released from any legal obligation to observe or obey it ? |
| 21 | In addition to coping with the illness itself many sufferers also have to cope with the misconceptions other people have about the illness . |
| 22 | A special kind of relationship comes to exist between users of such a territory and the physical space itself such that new conceptual and linguistic markers are attached to the space . |
| 23 | It 's space itself that is expanding . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've never known anyone who enjoyed being himself more than Jack . |
| 25 | Yes , he had been to the Tower himself several times but did not like it there and still less did he like exposing himself in the Waste . |
| 26 | It was the show itself that was garbage . |
| 27 | ‘ From the letter itself that 's how I knew it was Luke . |
| 28 | And he sent for the Bishop of Valencia , and took their vows and made them plight themselves each to the other according as the law directs . |
| 29 | Since Siah told me this story about a supreme storyteller , 1 have told the story myself many times . |
| 30 | Fact is , comin' here from the fence I fuckin' near shit myself each time you stopped . |