Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pn reflx] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I am going to suggest ways of finding out about earth energies and of understanding the processes involved , how the ancient peoples related to them , and how we may ourselves be able to build a stronger link . |
| 2 | We invoke the name of Omnipotence , humbly imploring his power and approbation ; to our countrymen we say , cease from your ribbons and banners ; support party struggles no more ; leave them to die , to exhaust themselves ; support those men of all parties who will espouse and maintain the good old rule of Christianity … we must ourselves be the great instrument of our regeneration . |
| 3 | They have a thirst for obedience , and will submit to whoever appoints himself leader , although the leader must himself be held in fascination ‘ by a strong faith ( in an idea ) in order to awaken the group 's faith ’ . |
| 4 | The musical instruments symbolize an underlying harmony behind nature 's powers , to which the successful alchemist must himself be attuned . |
| 5 | Indeed , that ‘ as if ’ model is an important part of the act of communication and must itself be treated as an object of study . |
| 6 | It might be assumed that forcible resistance to power without right must itself be legal and not revolutionary ; but in every case there seems no recourse except to force of some kind . |
| 7 | In a boiler , for example , scale on the heating surfaces must itself be heated before the water . |
| 8 | This hypothesis is a consequence of his search for the inherent necessities of human thought , following his dictum that " a theory , the ultimate in understanding , must satisfy the following formal conditions : it must confront the facts from the position of an antagonist , of course , but it must itself be based not on fact but on some absolute and inevitable exigency " ( 1984 : 23 ) . |
| 9 | If the general base is selected , together with two or more other bases , then different divisions of a text may have different constituents , though each division must itself be homogeneous . |
| 10 | We suppose that the corporation must itself be treated as a moral agent , and then we proceed by applying facsimiles of our principles about individual fault and responsibility to it . |
| 11 | Part of the ACOST review is devoted to what it should itself be looking at . |
| 12 | It is good management practice that any change of policy should itself be assessed : the process should help to decide whether LMS can take the credit for any improvements that occur . |
| 13 | It goes on to recommend that role modelling should itself be the subject of teaching so that its functions may become more explicit and better recognised . |
| 14 | If the tenant is to covenant expressly to pay VAT on rent , the VAT should itself be reserved as rent . |
| 15 | It was decided that whilst Reginald should go free , the unfortunate Margery should herself be placed in custody for her false appeal . |
| 16 | ‘ And so should yourself be , too , Owen O'Clery , ’ he had muttered as he laid his fiddle-case on the opposite seat , curled himself up and was immediately transported to his own dreamland . |
| 17 | Experiments to throw light on the processes at work must themselves be long-term . |
| 18 | The choices , assessments and selections which go into formulating a strategy , and the ingenuity or crassness displayed in implementing it , must themselves be shown to be determined by factors other than intentions . |
| 19 | External events are represented in the brain as spatio-temporal patterns of neural activity , and it is these patterns of activity which must themselves be the agents of synaptic change . |
| 20 | The historians and the political theorists ( as well as recent commentators on them ) must themselves be seen in their historical and social contexts . |
| 21 | Most of their criticisms were related to the survival ‘ of a nineteenth century tradition that council members must themselves be concerned with actual details of day-to-day administration ’ ( Maud 1967 , Vol. 1:1X ) . |
| 22 | Nor can any statement be made as to the moral implications of any sexual or quasi-sexual act except from standpoints which must themselves be debatable . |
| 23 | Before they can go to supply and support the British contingent in former Yugoslavia , the regiment must themselves be properly supplied and prepared . |
| 24 | But this was fundamentally a different issue to whether mentally handicapped people should themselves be in institutions essentially built to treat and care for people in need of constant medical aid . |
| 25 | Those guiding others should themselves be being guided for ‘ he who is a spiritual director to himself is counsellor to a fool ’ ( Bernard ) . |
| 26 | But in common with other colonised people such as the Algerians under French rule described by Frantz Fanon or the Black Americans by Stokely Carmichael in the 1960s , they believe that they and their children should themselves be the civilising force to overcome the ‘ civilisation ’ , the predominant philosophy and way of life , that has colonised them . |
| 27 | On the vexed question of how far soldiers and sailors should themselves be subjected to compulsory periodic genital inspection , medics and military chiefs were divided . |
| 28 | It is safe to say that Hans Haacke is the least likely of all artists ever to be commissioned to design a presidential memorial ( though one day he may himself be memorialised as founder of the Academy of Anti-Establishment Art ) . |
| 29 | In fact , he may himself be relying too much on rational analysis in setting ideologies . |
| 30 | Hirsch has rejected this phrase as delusive and logically meaningless , and this rejection might itself be rejected as an instance of the rat-trap logic to which he is inclined , an improper attempt to define a subject in more rigorous terms than the subject requires . |