Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is accepted that the deputy judge correctly directed himself on the issue of testamentary capacity when , after citing passages from the judgment of Cockburn C.J. in Banks v. Goodfellow ( 1870 ) L.R. 5 Q.B . |
| 32 | This desire to achieve unity along German lines often expressed itself in a distaste for the legalistic rationalism of the West ( France , England ) . |
| 33 | So you 'll excuse us if we take a second here to pat ourselves on the back ; it 's our birthday and we 'll do what we like . |
| 34 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
| 35 | Of course today , England is a part of Europe , but when Neela was growing up , England never saw itself as a part of Europe . |
| 36 | Though shoved and pinched and taunted unmercifully by the spectators , the Bisus quietly drummed themselves into a glassy-eyed state , drew their kerises from their sarongs , and proceeded to whirl furiously about the room while trying to twist the blades into their own throats and stomachs . |
| 37 | Design 's effective denial of a social formative or linguistic-representational function further isolates itself from the academies traditionally orientated towards understanding and valuing these . |
| 38 | Lisa still saw herself as a ‘ smoker ’ who was struggling to give up , rather than as a ‘ non-smoker ’ ( who might occasionally have a cigarette ) . |
| 39 | CHESTER 'S ex-town crier yesterday turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 40 | CHESTER 'S ex-town crier yesterday turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 41 | The grounds for relief were , inter alia , that Lautro failed to comply with the rules of natural justice and to act fairly in that it failed before the service of the notice to inform the applicant or Winchester of the allegations being made therein , failed to allow Winchester or its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised company representatives the opportunity of answering or responding to the allegations made against them , failed to take into account the interest of Winchester , its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised representatives when deciding to exercise the notice ; that Lautro acted unreasonably and came to a decision such that no person or body properly directing itself on the relevant law and acting reasonably could have reached in that it acted with bias against Winchester and its officials , issued the notice at a time its investigations were incomplete and on the basis of findings which were erroneous and provisional , and failed to conclude its investigations before serving the notice ; and that Lautro acted ultra vires and in error of law in that the rights of appeal applied to any person subject to the rules of Lautro whether or not members . |
| 42 | The magnetised spheres move in such a way that the colours naturally align themselves with the magnetic field of the Earth , following the points of the compass . |
| 43 | Britain before the war already experienced itself as a society afflicted by a deep cultural malaise , one that was described in a language quite indistinguishable from postwar thunderings against the ‘ permissive ’ and ‘ affluent ’ society . |
| 44 | The seller can not lose , and indeed the bank tells the seller not to concern himself with the authority given to the cardholder . |
| 45 | US airlines already find themselves at a disadvantage because of ‘ open sky ’ policies during Reagan-era deregulation , they say . |
| 46 | ‘ Men of genius and goodness are generally restless in their minds in the present , and this , because they are by a law of their nature unremittingly regarding themselves in the future , and contemplating the possible of moral and intellectual advance towards perfection . ’ |
| 47 | MEMBERS of the radical black Pan Africanist Congress were told by their leader yesterday to brace themselves for a bitter struggle as they celebrated the 33rd anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre with a fiery demonstration of militancy in the township where the killings occurred . |
| 48 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 49 | For instance , Music and Sports both find themselves in the Arts . |
| 50 | Your intervention clearly implicates myself in the charge you make of ‘ defeatist talk ’ about the scientific connection between material deprivation and premature death . |
| 51 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
| 52 | Both types of books , the Maigrets and the one-off crime novels , rely on simple language — Simenon famously restricted himself to a vocabulary of 2,000 words — and a length of around 150 pages . |
| 53 | The refugee organisations now found themselves in a difficult position . |
| 54 | Since power has the capacity to sanctify crimes , almost in strict proportion to their enormity , corporate officials frequently discover themselves in the enviable situation of being able to conclude that ‘ it will ’ . |
| 55 | The rebels then established themselves at a camp some 20 km from Moroni , calling for the resignation of Djohar and his Cabinet and of Capt. Azali Assoumani , commander of the FCD . |
| 56 | Despite this bitter tragedy the town again rallied itself to the Yorkist cause when in 1470 they assisted King Edward IV in dispelling a Lancastrian uprising at the battle of Loosecoat Field . |
| 57 | At the end of one evening Francesco Panetta lost an ill-organised 10,000 metres and thousands of Italians mentally threw themselves into the Tiber . |
| 58 | On an evening when he had broken the silence with one of his quietist cracks she would feel a sense of remorse and insufficiency descending on her , and hours later find herself in the larder , eating the remains of whatever was under the meat sieve and weeping that she should do something so self-defeating and stupid . |
| 59 | Devotion to the throne also manifested itself in a popular demand for the king 's third son , William Augustus , Duke of Cumberland , to be made Commander-in-Chief of the anti-invasion forces . |
| 60 | England … … … 0 Australia … … .. 0 STEVE TAYLOR probably established himself as the rightful successor to his more famous namesake , Ian , when he gave an outstanding performance of goalkeeping in England 's final game in the Lada Classic at Luton yesterday - a goalless draw with the world champions . |