Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one time , people thought that birds transformed themselves into other creatures during the winter . |
| 2 | For more evidence that addictions have something in common in the way they act on the brain as a whole , no matter which pathways they stimulate , look at the pictures on this page . |
| 3 | It is this ‘ position ’ that homosexuals find themselves in modern Britain that requires further consideration . |
| 4 | That 's to say that men embody themselves in partial versions of themselves , and then , in order to realize themselves more fully , they have to overcome by many kinds of struggle this previous realization . |
| 5 | ‘ The city is too easily stereotyped as a bleak and industrial wasteland full of flat-capped frustrated poets and musos consoling themselves with endless amounts of ale . |
| 6 | Although his groups , ‘ Tiddlers ’ , ‘ Ritz ’ , and ‘ Boys ’ , reflected increasing involvement in delinquent activities , they served the same function of enabling young people to achieve the sort of reputations and images denied them in mainstream society . |
| 7 | The ‘ co-decision ’ procedure applies to areas of law such as the single market , consumer protection , the free movement of labour and the right of individuals and companies to establish themselves in other member states . |
| 8 | Tone regulating — filmogenic actions help prevent facial expressions and movements transforming themselves into visible signs of skin ageing . |
| 9 | As I began to serve more regularly I became more accepted amongst the older stalwarts of the service , my naval experience and general seamanship picked up on fishing craft and yachts standing me in good stead . |
| 10 | Their experiences and feelings embrace lots of important areas of life — love , boyfriends , sex and contraception ; relationships with parents and friends ; school , adoption , abortion , pregnancy and birth , Mother and Baby Homes , surviving on social security benefits , living alone , getting married , and much more . |
| 11 | She has endured house arrest , detentions without trial , continual harassment by the police and orders banning her from political activity , while , all the time , never shrinking from her duties of leadership in the thankless battle against apartheid . |
| 12 | Surely if the courts and lawyers limit themselves to medical criteria as justifying their sex classification system , they must follow expert opinion . |
| 13 | Several pests and diseases manifest themselves upon aquatic plants . |
| 14 | Often only the absence of sabres and bullets differentiated it from full-scale war . |
| 15 | It can be spoilt if publicans serve it by unnatural methods . |
| 16 | Some sting , some bite , some throw poisonous hairs at you and others squirt you with blinding sprays . |
| 17 | Parkin asserts that only if women see themselves in non-family terms is stratification by gender meaningful , but he presents no evidence as to what women actually feel in relation to their family or class position . |
| 18 | Major questions about the individual and society have preoccupied thinkers in all periods of history : the philosophers of Ancient Greece and Rome reflected upon the way society operated and/or should operate , and for centuries afterwards social and political theorists and philosophers applied themselves to similar questions . |
| 19 | THE Bishop of Gloucester was in hiding last night after police quizzed him about alleged indecent behaviour towards a novice monk . |
| 20 | But more determined art criminals posing as tourists helped themselves to ornate craftwork from the chapel . |
| 21 | ( This trend has been so insistent that when men find themselves in part-time work economists have begun to call this the feminisation of labour . ) |