Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What really matters at the moment is that the rugby pot keeps itself on the boil , so that it wo n't need too much of a boost from the fickle flames of European International rugby , when it returns in the New Year , to reactivate the interest of the casual followers uncovered by the World Cup . |
| 2 | The silk moth caterpillar surrounds itself with a fuzzy bundle of threads , the moon moth constructs a cocoon with a silvery metallic sheen , the ermine moth builds an elegant casket of lacy net . |
| 3 | The sublime back section merges itself with the boisterous front and all is similar . |
| 4 | Cinema manager grooms himself before the main feature |
| 5 | Use of trade exhibitions is on the increase and firms increasingly need to establish a more scientific method of managing this function as it requires an understanding of how an exhibition stand communicates itself to the public . |
| 6 | The word consultant lends itself to a very wide interpretation and many food service operators , and particularly hotel operators , believe they are all capable of being food service consultants . |
| 7 | PC World regards itself as a computer specialist , claiming to be the largest supplier of computer products in Europe . |
| 8 | In this reading of things , each bureaucracy has become adept at marking out turf and advancing its own interests , whilst the Party-State leadership finds itself in the position of ‘ broker ’ between contending interests and ‘ constituencies ’ . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend would then understandably say , ’ How does it come about , then , that North Devon health authority finds itself in the position that it does on this referral ? ’ |
| 10 | Whereas wildlife conservation lends itself to a science-based approach , this is not really possible for landscape conservation , or the improvement of public access to the countryside . |
| 11 | ( Later in the same version of the myth Attis castrates himself under a pine tree . |
| 12 | Balinese life fits itself around the demands of tourism . |
| 13 | The effect of Lenin 's strategy , he warned , would be that the party substitutes itself for the class , ‘ the party organization substitutes itself for the party , the Central Committee substitutes itself for the organization and , finally , a ‘ dictator ’ substitutes himself for the Central Committee ’ . |