Example sentences of "[pn reflx] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We demand that our work should be recognised for what it is — we produce and reproduce in other people and ourselves the ability to work and go on working , we produce labour power . |
| 2 | In this case one could argue that I and Thou automatically imply We , since the two of us are sharing between ourselves the field of discourse . |
| 3 | We decided to call ourselves the Friends of John McCarthy because that 's what we were . |
| 4 | We all regarded medicine as a religion , and we called ourselves the Society of Reason . |
| 5 | But since the pain I have to experience to learn the concept is necessarily my pain , this explanation leads to our asking ourselves the question , ‘ What possible reason could I have to think that other people ever have what I mean by ‘ pain ’ ? ’ — a question which invites the answers , ‘ None ’ ( solipsism ) or , alternatively ‘ An argument from analogy ’ . |
| 6 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 7 | Clearly it is of prime importance to know how and why this dramatic reversal of traditional attitudes has occurred , and to ask ourselves the question why our approval of democracy should be so automatic and unhesitating when , had we been born a century or so earlier , we would have been equally unhesitating in disclaiming any support for so dangerous and radical a notion . |
| 8 | How we re serve our members , communicate with our members and ask ourselves the question , do we give them what they want ? |
| 9 | If we make ourselves the bar , if we suggest that self-determination is the right of every people on earth but the Germans , we risk creating resentments in Germany which could be quite as destabilising to the European order as reunification . |
| 10 | Outside but shadowing the DM , we deny ourselves the support of the system at times of currency fluctuation . |
| 11 | ‘ Outside , but shadowing the Deutschmark , we deny ourselves the support of the system at times of currency fluctuation . ’ |
| 12 | In 1 we set ourselves the problem of accounting for intuitions that some stretches of language are coherent and others are not . |
| 13 | We will know for ourselves the experience of God speaking through his written revelation to us . |
| 14 | Once we grant ourselves the licence to collect the physical artefacts of software , there remain , at least at first sight , respects in which software is both like , and unlike , traditional museum objects . |
| 15 | Nevertheless we need to hold before ourselves the vision of the peaceable kingdom . |
| 16 | Should n't we learn to love ourselves the way we are ? |
| 17 | We will set ourselves the objective of increasing the degree of consonance still further , and therefore the bass will be kept consonant with all upper parts : Though the effect of this is quite good , indeed smooth and sonorous , the concept of using a bass consonant with all upper parts has produced chords which are either diminished 7ths ( chord 1 ) or contain major or minor chords . |
| 18 | We set ourselves the task of uncovering the principles behind our feeling that certain stretches of language are meaningful and unified : that they have the quality of coherence . |
| 19 | We made visible to ourselves the complex , multiplicity of our identities . |
| 20 | When we present ourselves with the decision we are much more inclined to drift in a certain direction leaving ourselves the option of getting out if we find we do not like it . |
| 21 | We have enforced questionable criteria , appealed to divine authority and given ourselves the right to make our own interpretation of it . |
| 22 | Like ourselves the Firefly Trust seems to be making slow but steady progress and I wish them well . |
| 23 | We can allow ourselves the luxury of such an extravagant theory , provided that the odds against this coincidence occurring on a planet do not exceed 100 billion billion to one . |
| 24 | ‘ We call ourselves the Unifiers — an inner core of trade unionists who are prepared to take a few risks to get what we must for the majority . |
| 25 | We structure the data into simplified snapshots , attributes , traits and types , and attempt to give ourselves the understanding we need and to predict the behaviour of others from this process . |
| 26 | From the architectural viewpoint the greatest importance of this site , now so excellently opened up and preserved , is that it has preserved for us a provincial Roman city at a certain point in time — A.D. 79 — so that we can see for ourselves the buildings in which such citizens of the empire lived . |
| 27 | As soon as we stop exerting ourselves the blood pressure returns to normal again . |
| 28 | Granting ourselves the time to speculate and dream of a world to come gives us a chance to prepare for and adapt to a future way of life . |
| 29 | Erm the contract is always between three parties ourselves the advertiser and the doctors ' practice . |
| 30 | Alternatively , will it be used primarily by an individual , teaching himself/herself the language as he/she works with a language assistant ? |