Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated . |
| 2 | In particular , there is a need for clear guidance on the reporting by companies themselves on inherent uncertainties and statements of directors ' responsibilities . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I mean you could forget this list that I gave th b that gave you , unless there 's anything on it that is still relevant , but find the things yourself on that topic so that on Thursday Next Thursday you can each spend ten minutes talking about things which you 've read in your topic specifically . |
| 6 | The computer 's place in all this was in the control of either the mechanical discs or strips that carried the images of each character or , later on , in the generation and display of the characters themselves on a CRT . |
| 7 | It is clear that two main concerns animated sole practitioners themselves on this subject . |
| 8 | It is a philosophical problem , a fact recognised by scientists themselves on both sides of the argument . |
| 9 | A report by the National Council of Public Morals on The Cinema ( 1917 ) had also scrutinised the problem , entertaining a wide variety of evidence — on such matters as the educational potential of the cinema , censorship and licensing , the molestation of children in picture palaces , and a clouded discussion of what was somewhat eerily called ‘ the moral dangers of darkness ’ — as well as some monosyllabic evidence from children themselves on whether the moving pictures gave them bad dreams . |
| 10 | It was also one which , in all the circumstances , should have been taken by the hospital authorities themselves on the Monday . |
| 11 | Then , instead of being played for visual comedy , as when the stewardess in 2001 walks through a half circle to exit upside down , still carrying her tray unspilt ( done by imperceptibly turning the camera 180° in the opposite direction as she walks in a treadmill ) , it 's a drama with wry comedy overtones as the nervous Curnow is supported by his braver Soviet oppo , Brailovsky ( Elya Baskin ) — a sequence largely performed by the actors themselves on wires . |
| 12 | But it is not easy to differentiate between the views of middle class commentators and those of working class women themselves on this issue . |
| 13 | ( We wrote the marks themselves on paper , so that these could not be changed by program , though we also kept them electronically in order to allow electronic analysis of marks . ) |