Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or the shift from ‘ producer capitalism ’ to consumer capitalism , in which , for example , the moment of distribution has come to assert itself versus the moment of production . |
| 2 | Incidentally , he has decided to ally himself with the more stable elements in his life , and now styles himself Roger Foxcroft . |
| 3 | The rich North Italian industrial city of Turin has decided to put itself on the international map with a biennial art and antiques fair to be held at the Lingotto , the spectacular former Fiat car factory , from 27 February to 7 March . |
| 4 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 5 | Less persuasively , a people which has had to defend itself against an enduring hostility is shown , for the most part , as free from fear , and , in particular , from the fear that exceeds and mistakes its objects . |
| 6 | Rather , Laing believes the UK has got to reassert itself as a manufacturing economy . |
| 7 | The decision in 1990 by Britain to join the ERM was , indeed , not the first time this century that she has tried to defend herself from the possible consequences of wrong decisions by her own politicians by linking herself to those made by politicians in another country , through the mechanism of a fixed or managed exchange rate . |
| 8 | Let us leave the last words with Walter Abish who declares that ‘ the innovative novel is , in essence , a novel of disfamiliarization , a novel that has ceased to concern itself with the mapping of the ‘ familiar ’ world ’ ( Martin 1983 : 238 ) . |
| 9 | Only the Japanese — at 8,000 the largest single contingent in the initial force — were reported to have conducted themselves in an honourable fashion . |
| 10 | These moves will also mean that the probation service has to stop seeing itself as the exclusive provider of services and facilities : it is suggested that other voluntary or private sectors may make better provision . |
| 11 | Uniplex Ltd , the Hemel Hempstead-based Unix office automation stalwart , has begun to re-fashion itself as a groupware house , an effort that will take another 10 to 12 months to realise . |
| 12 | Uniplex Ltd , the Hemel Hempstead-based Unix office automation stalwart , has begun to re-fashion itself as a groupware house , an effort that will take another 10 to 12 months to realise . |
| 13 | Betty , suspect , generates a larger than average amount of her own static electricity aggravated by pushing the carriage to and fro and she has begun to discharge herself through the machine . |
| 14 | ANN CLWYD is a tough Parliamentary performer who has managed to force herself to the forefront of public attention despite holding the relatively low-profile portfolio of overseas development and cooperation in Labour 's Shadow Cabinet . |
| 15 | • What your intense desire for Jim tells me is that you are a highly sexual person : one who has managed to heal herself after a difficult marriage and who 's now ready for a physical relationship . |
| 16 | Nickle moved to St Helens from Sheffield in the close season and , despite injuries , has managed to establish himself in the side . |
| 17 | The fact that it also rejects punishment in favour of individualised treatment geared to the particular needs of the offender has meant that , unlike deterrence , it has managed to present itself as a humane , caring alternative to the ‘ primitive revenge ’ of retribution . |
| 18 | However , as a Party it has managed to project itself as the supporter of law and order , and simultaneously to construct the parties of opposition as the supporters of disorder , misrule and irresponsibility . |
| 19 | Twenty-ninth August — the German Army has managed to get itself across the Seine and , according to the news at the Brigade H.Q , 4th Commando Brigade has joined in the pursuit . |
| 20 | Harvey has managed to drag himself from the van , still clutching his stomach , to add extra effect to the barrage — and the audience features members of Screaming Trees and Dagnasty . |
| 21 | Justifiably or not , the Soviet Union in the later Brezhnev years had provided no advertisement for socialism , and even communist parties in other countries had felt compelled to distance themselves from the Soviet model and the heritage of Leninism . |
| 22 | She 'd pictured giving herself to a man , but not until the right time and the right one came along . |
| 23 | She 'd wanted to throw herself on the floor , kicking and screaming to make the words go away , to make the lover want to stay . |
| 24 | This foolish lad was said to have gorged himself on an entire goose one Christmas Eve and , upon staggering home , was robbed and murdered . |
| 25 | ( e ) the vulnerability or otherwise of the target 's board ( the offeror will particularly focus on the board 's achievements and also on any areas where individual directors could be said to have advantaged themselves at the expense of the company ( eg golden parachute arrangements ( see para 18.5.12 below ) ) ; |
| 26 | Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable . |
| 27 | Towards the end of the third century a new name appeared in Roman records , though the people to whom it was applied had established themselves in the country much earlier . |
| 28 | Last Saturday United managed to lift themselves off the foot of division two , but they 're still financially rock bottom . |
| 29 | This involves attempting to put yourself in the consumer 's shoes so as to identify with their hopes and expectations and finding ways of meeting these . |
| 30 | When an emotionally articulate speaker wants to convey to me , not the fact that he is sad , but in what way and to what degree , his language becomes rhythmic and metaphorical , pulls me to his viewpoint to visualize his situation becomes a poetry which infects me with his melancholy and a rhetoric stirring me to help him , and afterwards perhaps I find myself regretting having committed myself to an action in his interests rather than my own . |