Example sentences of "[noun] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , Kant thinks that if morality is ultimately valid it is because we have somehow settled on these imperatives ourselves at the noumenal level , but to this — apart from the dubiousness of the metaphysics — it is likely to be objected that if the imperatives spring from myself it is quite proper for me to rescind them when convenient . |
| 2 | The Italian was in the process of being shown the red card himself for a crunching tackle on Walsh when the Pompey striker hit back angrily . |
| 3 | However most practitioners of literary stylistics , including Halliday himself on a later occasion ( Halliday 1971 ) , would insist on supplementing the comparative approach just described with some kind of functional analysis — analysis , that is , that asks what the language of a text does , how it contributes to the meaning and effect of the whole . |
| 4 | On occasions , after a programme , he would slip into the empty studio , seat himself at the grand piano and play — mostly chords and nothing recognizable . |
| 5 | The steadying windvane is a help , and the alternative triangular frame idea shows a way of using weight itself as a stabilising force . |
| 6 | Therefore representative democracy presents itself as the best compromise . |
| 7 | The programmes on the computers , also accessible to visitors to Pompeii itself in the small museum at Boscoreale , are the culmination of what is known as the Neapolis project . |
| 8 | Do n't try to cure the flakiness yourself with an anti- dandruff shampoo — it requires a different treatment . |
| 9 | Carole , who had fallen to the floor and was attempting to massage her husband 's knee , looked up to see Kenneth Baker himself in a camel-hair dressing gown , flanked by two men with guns . |
| 10 | The elderly admirer is Nestor himself in a false beard and Irma , who is clearly short sighted as well as dim and really nice , hardly notices the difference . |
| 11 | Such an individual could choose to ignore conventional time-cues and so cocoon himself in an artificial world in which meals and artificial lighting are adjusted to accord with the dictates of his body clock — like the subject in a cave ( in chapter 2 ) and the opposite of what happens normally , when our life-style adjusts our body clock . |
| 12 | Sloan no slouch himself in the cantankerous department was not of much help . |
| 13 | James Lee Byars , who is no slouch himself in the mystical department , deploys white marble balls at Mary Boone ( until the 25th ) . |
| 14 | Both local associations pointed unambiguously to slavery itself as the disruptive factor ; only with emancipation would ‘ a Population of turbulent Slaves [ be ] converted into one of peaceable Colonists ’ . |
| 15 | The Parliament Act 1911 still recites that ‘ it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis ’ and explains the Act itself as a temporary measure pending such a substitution . |
| 16 | The team had already identified the capability of the switchboard equipment itself as a major cause of delays and one recommendation was that Direct Dial In [ DDI ] facilities should be installed so that calls could be dialled direct to specific people , by-passing the switchboard . |
| 17 | , well we have got complex numbers , but we ca n't have B itself in the complex number , right , so B square must be nine , so either B is plus three or B is minus three , one or the two |
| 18 | Who then , was to determine whether or not the water came from faults and fissures in the rock , or from the vein itself in the usual manner ? |
| 19 | But such criticisms were rebutted this week by Selina herself with the simple argument that whatever her talents are , one of them lies in getting people to watch her on the television . |
| 20 | Here you can relax in a pine lodge overlooking a lovely garden , or sun yourself on the semi-circular sun terrace . |
| 21 | In chains he tells the Sanhedrin itself about the one name in heaven by which we must be saved . |
| 22 | I WAS surprised to read in the article by Harry Mead ( Echo January 17 ) and your editorial ( January 20 ) where , after a careful scrutiny of the present troubles in Northern Ireland , both of your suggested conclusions were for accepting the defeatist attitude of the greater good subordinating itself to the prevalent evil . |
| 23 | although on one level Balzac 's story is ‘ about ’ castration ( one of the characters is a castrato singer ) , in Barthes 's reading the theme of castration is seen as a pretext for a kind of reflexive anxiety on the part of the text itself concerning the very possibility of representation . |
| 24 | Sometimes , the Minister will take the point of a desired amendment , but not like the proposed amendment itself and thus undertake instead to arrange for amendment himself at a later stage . |
| 25 | 2 or 3 days at home in Oxfordshire is a luxury , even when he does get the chance to relax , he watches re-runs and readies himself for the next race . |
| 26 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 27 | At 32 Rue St Honoré , they met with Raymond Eddi , a distinguished Lebanese parliamentarian in exile , and Marcel Boutros , Aoun 's personal envoy , who invited Coleman to meet the general himself at the presidential palace in Baabda . |
| 28 | I found a piece of blue-grey silk for the background , to tone in with the recipient 's decor , and selected the wooden frame and the gold tones in the picture itself for the same reason . |
| 29 | Hyperplasia is in fact initiated by the fish itself as a protective mechanism in response to hostile water conditions or parasite infestations . |
| 30 | Hyperplasia is in fact initiated by the fish itself as a protective mechanism in response to hostile water conditions or parasite infestations . |