Example sentences of "this [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 4 ) This plays itself out in spatial terms in the restructuration of the centre of our great cities and the creation of a large group of central-city dwelling ‘ yuppies ’ among the post-industrial middle classes . |
| 2 | This manifested itself quite dramatically on a few occasions when , the holding screws having sheared , the rail curled up behind the tank as it moved down the slope . |
| 3 | This manifested itself in the falling returns in grain collections for provisioning the towns and the Red Army . |
| 4 | However , she felt that this manifested itself nor only in the kinds of statements made and questions posed in interviews but also in day-to-day work in the school . |
| 5 | This manifested itself partly in his waxy parchment-like complexion and a habit of sitting in an increasingly hunched posture . |
| 6 | This has itself generated a substantial literature ( see the papers in Elliot 1988 for an overview ) and is nowhere better exemplified than in Openshaw 's geographical analysis machine ( see Ch. 2 ) . |
| 7 | At one level , this exhibits itself in the place that mathematics and science have come to occupy , mainly in virtue of their underpinning of technology in all its forms , including information technology and computerization . |
| 8 | Paper circulates today in vast quantities , and you need only to retrieve some of this to provide yourself with an adequate body of notes at no cost at all . |
| 9 | This traced itself back to John Merchant , a Fleming given a permit almost 100 years earlier , in 1492 , to export 50 tuns of ‘ ale called berre ’ to the Low Countries . |
| 10 | The Charismatics — part of this evangelical upsurge — feel they have been blessed with the direct gifts of the holy spirit , and one of the main ways in which this manifests itself is speaking in tongues . |
| 11 | In a mild form , this manifests itself as slight swelling , with gums bleeding . |
| 12 | A final point to make here is that another effect of silent viewing of video is the interest it generates and the way this manifests itself in commitment to a point of view about a scene . |
| 13 | This manifests itself most obviously at the technical level where the same basic skills can be applied in different markets . |
| 14 | This manifests itself in various ways . |
| 15 | Surveyors must decide whether to meet this challenge themselves or employ others to do so . |
| 16 | This links itself to the three previous parts because it displays a process which metaphorically or symbolically represents change . |
| 17 | Sometimes this shows itself . |
| 18 | The aim , he avers , is to develop an idiom from the necessity of the thing itself : ‘ This shows itself possibly in an urban romanticism , and a concern with characterisation , attitude and atmosphere . ’ |
| 19 | This shows itself both in musical content — the impact of ragtime , jazz , Tin Pan Alley songs , new dance forms , and so on — and in new methods of mass production , publicity and distribution : in short , a drive towards ‘ one-way communication ’ in homogeneous markets . |
| 20 | This shows itself in a variety of ways : in the all-consuming craving for more money and possessions , more power and social status , and more pleasure and entertainment . |
| 21 | For some this reveals itself as a conflict between the top and the lower tiers of the organization , between strategy making and local autonomy . |
| 22 | He is intrinsically proud : this reveals itself through his habit of defining himself by telling you his achievements . |
| 23 | Sequencing This concerns itself with the problem of the sequence in which the items in the block are to be taught in relation to their usefulness and difficulty . |
| 24 | Nuadu had said that the Robemaker and CuRoi took sacrifices from the ordinary people of Ireland ; strong young sons to work at the Looms , although presumably they would not actually do this work themselves . |
| 25 | In Chapter 3 it was argued that pre-colonial society was indeed authoritarian , and that this expressed itself in a great stress on the conformity of the individual , and on a hierarchy of relationships between young and old , between chiefs and people and between men and women . |
| 26 | This reflects itself in the fact that when I actually make a measurement I shall find the electron sometimes here and sometimes over there . |
| 27 | Registration has to be done very shortly after the death itself , so the person who goes to the office to do this finds himself alongside people who are celebrating the birth of a baby , or registering a marriage . |
| 28 | Linked with identity , this expresses itself as loyalty ; linked with obligations and duties , it is a sense of responsibility . |
| 29 | In paranoid disorders however , it is the son 's passive relation to the father that threatens to unman him , and this expresses itself in the characteristic symptom of paranoia — delusions produced by the mechanism of projection . |
| 30 | Nowhere does this manifest itself more blatantly than in the way that the state , in most EEC countries , is allowed by EEC institutions to use the enterprises it owns or controls to act as vehicles for receiving and in some cases dispensing subsidies . |