Example sentences of "asserts [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the period when the new owner asserts himself as pack leader . |
| 2 | ‘ I ’ , ‘ me ’ or ‘ mine ’ are words that are frequently heard in the classroom , as a child proudly announces that he has ‘ built a big tower ’ or ‘ got one like that ’ , or as he asserts himself by virtue of possession , ‘ That 's mine ’ . |
| 3 | He asserts himself as a poet ( note that we still today think of him primarily as a " poet " rather than as a " writer " ) superior to the ridiculous doggerel of Sir Thopas . |
| 4 | Zoe goes for it and plucks up some courage while Leonard asserts himself and makes a decision . |
| 5 | Thus culture at some level of awareness asserts itself to be not only distinct from but superior to nature , and that sense of distinctiveness and superiority rests precisely on the ability to transform — to ‘ socialize' ’ and ‘ ‘ culturalize' ’ — nature' , i.e. to be active and in control . |
| 6 | Most of the downland woods are west of the Arun gap and , apart from plantations , beech ( Fagus sylvatica ) is the dominant tree , although it rarely regenerates , and where no replanting takes place ash ( Fraxinus excelsior ) quickly asserts itself . |
| 7 | People often change their minds — a woman 's biological clock often asserts itself in her mid 30s , ’ cautions Jane . |
| 8 | He has always recognized the sweetness of an apple as a reason for choosing it , although a sinful one ; with the lapse of the standard which condemns it , it asserts itself as the only relevant consideration . |
| 9 | An established order of seeing , of understanding , of ruling , is simply exploded — the Modernist spirit asserts itself . |
| 10 | With such diverse origins it is not surprising that occasionally some unsuspected gene from a complicated ancestral past asserts itself and a deviation pops up . |
| 11 | Nature irresistibly asserts itself , and no amount of talking by ICC match referee Clyde Walcott before the match was going to suppress the volatility of several of the Pakistan cricketers . |
| 12 | Since at least the time of Rousseau it has been the assertion of self against the preternaturally distorting effects of modern , and later industrial civilisation ; sex , that is to say , is the essence of our individual being which asserts itself against the demands of culture , and this has had a profound resonance in our thinking . |