Example sentences of "expresses [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This expresses nothing more than the notion that the decision should proceed from the proofs and arguments advanced by the parties . |
| 2 | Their sentiments were all very similar , and this letter from Lincolnshire expresses them quite clearly : |
| 3 | Second , the specificity of who it is safe to love is related to the ‘ me in you ’ : ‘ I love someone who reflects part of myself , sometimes a hidden or unacknowledged part of myself ; I feel good with a you who either shares my feelings , expresses them for me or helps me to defend myself against them . ’ |
| 4 | It expresses my love of Burma and its people which continued well into old age . |
| 5 | Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining . |
| 6 | However , even though it expresses my belief that you did steal the money , the distinctively ethical role of the sentence is to express my attitude of disfavour towards you for this act . |
| 7 | It was this work , along with the subsequent brilliance of his public performances , that created his reputation as ‘ Canada 's leading young poet ’ : ‘ His virtues are his own , and they are considerable … at his best he expresses himself , sometimes whimsically , sometimes passionately , in speech which is beyond the capacity of mere formula to produce , ’ commented Allan Donaldson at the time . |
| 8 | I have quoted this passage in full , not because I think it is particularly inspired or even well-written , but because it is the nearest attempt I have come across to suggest some of the subjective , hidden meanings that might well make up a performer 's luggage when he expresses himself on stage . |
| 9 | The apparent ease of his contrapuntal textures , too , is another example of art concealing art : a moment 's listening behind the quiet , untrammelled ease with which Jenkins expresses himself reveals the downright mastery involved . |
| 10 | We have all met the person who expresses himself or herself indirectly — ‘ Well , of course I would , but it 's George — you know how it is … |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not saying there 's more culture in our family and that Eric plays football as well so that makes us more interesting , I 'm just saying he expresses himself in one way and also in another and we do n't want to be criticised for that . ’ |
| 12 | However , subsequent thinkers have often seen his claim as in effect about the meaning of the word ‘ good ’ and Moore himself at times expresses himself thus . |
| 13 | The first five are basically concerned with the structures of literature and the various ways in which an author expresses himself . |
| 14 | ( If this proposition is doubted , consider s.76(4) ( b ) of PACE , under which a confession , inadmissible as evidence of its truth , may nevertheless supply evidence of the way that the accused ‘ speaks , writes or expresses himself . ’ ) |
| 15 | He repeatedly expresses himself as awestruck by nature and by the contemplation of truth , and as having a , a desire to worship something outside himself . |
| 16 | In the 1880s there had begun to run on them the transcontinental luxury expresses which were to dominate long-distance land travel until the second world war . |
| 17 | After some initial problems had been overcome the Garratts were outstandingly successful , running on all gauges from 2 feet to 5 feet 6 inches on gradients up to 1 in 20 or more , usually at modest speeds on heavily curved and graded routes , but capable of 75–80 m.p.h. on the Algerian expresses which were headed by probably the fastest articulated locomotives ( 4–6–2+2–6–4 ) ever built . |
| 18 | ‘ We do not encourage them to follow fashions blindly , but suggest a set of variations which expresses their individuality . ’ |
| 19 | In one of the two cases we have considered — incest — the prohibition is paradoxically related to pre-cultural dispositions : it expresses their function , but not their content . |
| 20 | These tools should enable all children , not only to gain access to the curriculum but also to allow and encourage them to respond to it in a way which clearly expresses their understanding . |
| 21 | If historical time is the existence of the social totality then the relation between the two must be one of immediacy , allowing what Althusser calls an ‘ essential section ’ , that is ‘ a break in the present such that all the elements of the whole revealed by this section are in an immediate relationship with one another , a relationship that immediately expresses their internal essence ’ . |
| 22 | The works in a collection like New Hall 's while they engage with some of these issues about women 's lack and absence from history , at the same time abrogate the very claim that women have not and can not command a semantic field which expresses their own meanings and tells their own stories . |
| 23 | In any case , it could well be that some students have no interest at all in certain idioms and prefer to by-pass them quickly in their search for what expresses their own aesthetic more closely . |
| 24 | A common problem with co-referential items like pronouns and demonstratives arises when it is not clear what they refer to : Sir William Lucas is " in earnest contemplation of the greatness before him " and his daughter Maria " frightened almost out of her senses " when they meet Lady Catherine at Rosings , which expresses their simplicity and nature to be easily impressed by grandeur and presentation . |
| 25 | The letter expresses their ‘ very deep sympathy ’ to Kevin 's family . |
| 26 | A lovely time was had by all and everyone expresses their thanks . |
| 27 | Leapor also expresses her distaste for flattery in ‘ Advice to Myrtillo ’ . |
| 28 | Here , for the first time , Mozart demonstrated to the full his superlative skill in making music a medium for the expression of human emotions — in such highlights as Ilia 's aria ‘ Padre , germani , addio ’ , which expresses her conflict between love for her enemy and duty to her native country ; Idomeneus ' aria ‘ Fuor del mar ’ , in which the king describes how , although he is physically safe , his mind is still storm-tossed by dark forebodings ; and the masterly quartet ‘ Andrò rammingo e solo ’ — one of the great operatic ensembles of all time — in which four characters all express different emotions . |
| 29 | For instance , someone who expresses her opinion of a friend 's appearance very vaguely may be suspected of doing so in order to be polite ( saving others ' face is a common motive for vagueness , untruthfulness and withholding information ) . |
| 30 | 680 by a suppliant , Ecgburh , expresses her grief at the loss some time before of her brother , Oshere , whom a bitter and cruel death had taken from her , and it may be that her brother was Oshere , king of the Hwicce . |