Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 12 aligned themselves with the opposition NLF to form the United Legislature Front , thereby reducing S. C. Jamir 's Congress ( I ) ministry to a minority . |
| 2 | The English established themselves in a strong defensive position and on the evening of 26 August the French approached . |
| 3 | Unable to effect a landing , the French satisfied themselves with an attack upon the Cawsand fishing fleet and were then compelled to put back to sea . |
| 4 | The ancient method of trial by ordeal demanded that the accused submit himself to the test of fire or of water . |
| 5 | The second embedded itself in the ground near Lee 's foot . |
| 6 | However , it was always possible for the rich and the powerful to isolate themselves from the consequences of industrial growth by moving away from the factory areas to the more tranquil and less squalid atmosphere of the countryside . |
| 7 | In these concrete examples , here at last was literacy that enabled the poor to see themselves as the makers of their own history , with the power to change their world . |
| 8 | Those who spoke on behalf of the elderly found themselves in a dilemma . |
| 9 | Thus , at the very moment when the common menace receded , the Twelve committed themselves to a common defence policy . |
| 10 | European civilization was the first to impose itself on the whole surface of the globe . |
| 11 | Thus the quarrel between Megara and Corinth , which drove the former to detach herself from the Peloponnesian League in 461 and join Athens , was originally over boundary land . |
| 12 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 13 | The former established themselves on the margins of Lake Texcoco in the fourteenth century . |
| 14 | The objection therefore to totalization is not founded on any simple analogy with totalitarianism — though neither can this be excluded — but rather on the implicit violence of ontology itself , in which the same constitutes itself through a form of negativity in relation to the other , producing all knowledge by appropriating and sublating the other within itself . |
| 15 | Your Committee being by nature shy , retiring , modest people , would be the last to compare themselves with the Captains and Kings — more like your temporary , acting , unpaid Lance Corporals , — Dogsbodies one and all . |