Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A subordinate class , such as the working class will , by definition , be low on economic resources and this will reproduce its subordination ; but it may also possibly generate a collective ethic to cope with adverse circumstances and so reproduce itself in this way according to a common cultural identity . |
| 2 | Girls who suddenly find themselves with enormous breasts may collapse in on themselves in embarrassment or try to hide behind folded arms , and the result is an equally collapsed voice which often gives out altogether at crucial moments . |
| 3 | Given the need for an extensive approach within the limitations noted above , and given that the first stage of the fieldwork demonstrated that heroin users generally confine themselves to specific networks , it was decided to use a ‘ network analysis ’ approach using the technique of snowball sampling , or chain referral ( Fraser and Hawkins 1984 , p. 82 ) . |
| 4 | Our appeal to our traditional supporters was not enough to outweigh our lack of success with those growing numbers who no longer count themselves as working class . |
| 5 | Within such studies there is a tendency also to concentrate on those ‘ academic ’ components of the curriculum which more easily lend themselves to didactic modes of exposition and question-and-answer teaching . |
| 6 | Is he aware that the Institute of Housing has recently reported that it does not believe that competitive tendering in housing management is a sensible option , saying that it does ’ not easily lend itself to competitive tendering ’ ? |
| 7 | Many of these areas lie too wet in winter for arable farming , and thus lend themselves to bought-in herds of cattle for summer fattening . |
| 8 | Just get yourself in this car else we 'll be late . |
| 9 | But I think we must be given freedom to choose the time and not commit ourselves to any timetable . |
| 10 | The plan and appearance of houses , the way they are furnished , mirror the social values of their time ; but the best define themselves against those values , inheriting the past , receiving the present , but shaping the future . |
| 11 | Third , how can this shift be played out in the portrayal of disabled people in relationship to their impairment so that they no longer see themselves as able-bodied people who are flawed . |
| 12 | And , granted that much , " We " then further discriminate ourselves from other men by elaborations of these same three distinctions : |
| 13 | Even if he is working in a field with other workers the sense of isolation can remain , for the noise and the increased pace of work hardly lend themselves to easy conversation between workmates . |
| 14 | Science seeks to discover the operation of general laws which , by their nature , always manifest themselves in certain situations . |
| 15 | But while the United States , France , the UK and Germany still find themselves in similar league positions to a hundred years ago , there is now a growing challenge from a dozen or more previously dependent nations , especially in Asia . |
| 16 | As the constitutional authorities gradually detach themselves from wholehearted support for our system of democracy so they envisage the judges assuming a role of extended significance in defending liberty and in checking what they regard as the misuse of political power . |
| 17 | As we discuss shortly , Bourdieu 's work shows these processes of emulation to be combined with the extraordinarily subtle means by which social groups also distinguish themselves from each other . |
| 18 | Pagan demons also lend themselves to biblical interpretations . |
| 19 | Significantly lower down on the status scale is Gatorland , where you can watch a Seminole Indian wrestle an alligator and later treat yourself to fried alligator tail at the snack bar ; it 's actually not as vile as it sounds . |
| 20 | With an increasing non-Agta farming population , the Agta now view themselves as landless squatters in their own ancestral lands . |
| 21 | Architects often bury themselves in individual building projects , ignoring any responsibility to the public space of the city ; planners work at a scale where the street is seen only as a traffic channel … ‘ |
| 22 | Recipients of many conifers have been the National Parks which now find themselves under serious threat from developers instead of trees . |
| 23 | Although research in this area is limited , what there is indicates that teachers ' negative conceptions of their black pupils often translate themselves into discriminatory practices in a variety of school contexts . |
| 24 | Pahl 's ‘ salaried immigrants ’ frequently ally themselves with this group on housing matters . |
| 25 | However , many difficulties immediately suggest themselves with this use of hoards . |
| 26 | Instead of ‘ us and them ’ perceptions of their relationships with their employers , the manual workers would forgo hitherto strong class loyalties , and increasingly associate themselves with middle- class conformity . |
| 27 | French restaurants particularly lend themselves to this kind of combination , and the staff seem quite happy to oblige . |
| 28 | And , when burying himself in work , he left several bowls of gold coins outside his room , with a note saying ‘ Please help yourself to those coins , but on no account disturb me ’ . |
| 29 | On Friday the group will start an arduous four week journey on a cargo ship then drive themselves for 1,000 kilometres through the Kalahari Desert . |
| 30 | Thirty years apart in age , they embraced with that warmth of affection which pious women sometimes allow themselves towards each other , knowing that it will be mistaken for nothing else . |