Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , although they defended free trade against Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reformers , most of the leading Liberal politicians and an influential minority of socialists accommodated themselves to the underlying assumptions of the new imperialism . |
| 2 | Despite this , it is worth noting that in Townsend 's sample 31 per cent of men assigning themselves to the middle class had ‘ manual ’ occupations , and 25 per cent of men assigning themselves to the working class had ‘ non-manual ’ occupations . |
| 3 | Despite this , it is worth noting that in Townsend 's sample 31 per cent of men assigning themselves to the middle class had ‘ manual ’ occupations , and 25 per cent of men assigning themselves to the working class had ‘ non-manual ’ occupations . |
| 4 | For Spender , it makes no sense for reformists to restrict themselves to a small set of targets like generic pronouns and man . |
| 5 | Although the people of Stowey had by degrees reconciled themselves to the presence of Coleridge , who lived in their midst with his wife and child , Wordsworth 's arrival at remote Alfoxden , with a young woman said to be his sister , provided much greater scope for speculation . |