Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [vb -s] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reintroduction of the teaching of grammar does not mean that teachers need to neglect the subjective , creative , personal and expressive , for our ability to express ourselves depends on craft , and craft involves understanding of the forms of language . |
| 2 | Refusing all but the most exceptional interview , Auerbach himself insists on the autonomy of the work . |
| 3 | The argument relied on to support that submission is set out in the judgment in the following passage : ‘ The argument there is that on their arrival there is no home and there is no financial support forthcoming from the plaintiff who himself lives on state benefits . |
| 4 | The Count himself appears on horseback on the right-hand side of the portal , above a capital , while counterbalancing him on the left is a monster devouring a man ( only the bottom half of him remains to go down ) . |
| 5 | The warp loops marked on the map are to misdirect intruders and add to the security of the Bloodheart — whenever anyone or anything except Drachenfels himself treads on the start-point of a warp loop , roll a D10 to see where they end up : |
| 6 | The promontory itself dissolves on the seaward side into rocks and inlets , including the delightful cove of the Plage du Port-Vieux , a sheltered bathing place recommended ‘ for persons who are weakly or unaccustomed to the sea ’ as my old Baedeker considerately puts it . |
| 7 | What you pack apart from the camcorder itself depends on the kind of holiday you are planning and the amount of luggage you can reasonably handle . |
| 8 | Utilitarianism itself depends on some specific , unrecognized assumptions : |
| 9 | But paraphrase , as the concept on which stylistic dualism is founded , itself depends on an agreed conception of " meaning " or " content " , two terms often used loosely and interchangeably . |
| 10 | It implicitly suggests that the Supreme Court ruling itself rests on a failure to identify women as members of the class ‘ Americans ’ . |
| 11 | This shows how successful ageing depends on finding a continuing sense of purpose and meaning in life , which itself draws on earlier life experience , activities and interests . |
| 12 | In many ways it is transitional between the eighteenth century and the Regency : there is still the odd closet , a bedroom and dressing-room are still downstairs , and the house itself perches on its semi-basement . |
| 13 | The trial itself centres on charges brought by the regional government against five senior company staff for criminal negligence in the design and operation of the plant . |
| 14 | It is a pity that she could not have elaborated on several points , and provided a fuller answer to the question she herself raises on p. 101 : " When is it … perfectly appropriate to tell jokes and play with words ? " |
| 15 | Cleary herself works on some of the others , in particular London Electricity 's Livewire ; the firm had two other publications among the class winners — BP Oil News and Landscape . |
| 16 | To invest your suppliers ' money and take the interest yourself verges on the immoral . |
| 17 | The extent of the input by the business units themselves depends on the style of planning management adopted by the planning department . |
| 18 | The power of individuals to grasp autonomy for themselves depends on their ability to proceed in groups without the powerful outsider . |