Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it is difficult for the family or the child to attach themselves to each other , then at the end of the day the child will leave the family and become attached to the black community . |
| 2 | The infant was classified as Maori if either the mother or the father considered themselves to be Maori . |
| 3 | There are also several varieties that are viviparous — where the plants reproduce themselves by producing young plants vegetatively between the leaf sinus . |
| 4 | Until recently it has tended to be a middle-class , if not an upper-class , home where the father prides himself on being able to provide well for his family , and the mother prides herself on being a good ‘ homemaker ’ who runs the establishment with precise efficiency , giving careful consideration to the basic ( i.e. material ) needs of all the occupants . |
| 5 | Hospital doctors , with some marvellous exceptions , have clung to old patterns of training where the doctor protected himself from the patient 's feelings of panic and terror in the face of illness and death . |
| 6 | Similar reasoning could be applied where the plaintiff puts himself in a position which is not dangerous in itself but he is aware of circumstances which make it more likely that he will suffer harm . |
| 7 | There was not a word said of business until they came to table in Isambard 's great hall , where the envoy found himself in the place of honour at his host 's right hand . |
| 8 | Conditions laid down by Haussmann along the lines of those set out by the Monopoly Commission , that the companies divest themselves of certain divisions which , if merged , would be against German interests in the arms industry , were eventually agreed to by both MBB and Daimler . |
| 9 | The fact that the subject believes himself to be been falsely suspected will not necessarily protect him from criminal liability if he should over-react . |
| 10 | Other issues that the FCC concerned itself with included the control of unruly behaviour ( both by young people and by American Legion club members ! ) , the use of vacant structures and neighbourhood welfare programmes , particularly for the elderly . |
| 11 | The incorporation of a long passage from a Board of Education memo on evening schools indicates that the Committee feels itself to be in consonance with the Board " s thinking , not only on the inadequacies of vocational education , but also on the value of English as a force for cultural nationalization . |
| 12 | The effect is that the individual identifies herself with an existence which is imposed upon her . |
| 13 | Its main function , however , is to ensure that the system rids itself of unwanted air . |
| 14 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 15 | Is the inescapable conclusion , therefore , that the régime finds itself between the devil and the deep blue sea ? |
| 16 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 17 | It was not until the 1960s that the courts rid themselves of the most debilitating restraints of formalism and assumed a more active supervisory role . |
| 18 | However , as the laying-out and preparation of the body was at that time the responsibility of the family , it would appear that the guild limited themselves to three actions : the marshalling of their members to attend , and the selection from that company of those to carry the coffin ( though it would have been a strong guild able to command more than half a dozen of its members during a weekday ) ; to see the coffin safely into the church and to ensure that the burial equipment was in place ; and to attend the full obsequies on the following day , including the funeral feast . |
| 19 | The frugivores seem to have wider ‘ niches ’ in rain forests than elsewhere , but the converse theory that the habitat lends itself to finer division into niches seems to hold for the carnivores . |
| 20 | The probability is that the murderer washed himself in the kitchen . ’ |
| 21 | ( e ) Duties generally ( NB Clause 13 ) The matters which would normally be recorded in the partnership agreement under this head include : ( 1 ) the standard form " just and faithful " obligationstrictly unnecessary in view of the overriding nature of the equivalent statutory provisions and the implication that will always be made that such duty exists , but invariably spelled out in writing ; ( 2 ) a requirement that the partners devote themselves to the business of the firm . |
| 22 | But it was only as a last resort in 1120 that the community committed itself to , and based its case upon , the expedient of introducing into existing documents the necessary phrases , which — if they had been there in the days of Lanfranc or Anselm — would have given their case a firm basis in papal documents . |
| 23 | It was vital that the Community compose itself in order to present a united front at the Second World Conference on Climate Change to be held in Geneva , where world levels for carbon dioxide emissions are to be discussed . |
| 24 | A by-product of Labour leaders ' responsiveness to the new thinking may be that the party relieves itself of some commitments which have been electoral liabilities in the past . |
| 25 | The effect of Lenin 's strategy , he warned , would be that the party substitutes itself for the class , ‘ the party organization substitutes itself for the party , the Central Committee substitutes itself for the organization and , finally , a ‘ dictator ’ substitutes himself for the Central Committee ’ . |
| 26 | No wonder , then , that the poet described himself as ‘ a wanderer ’ , supporting the literal sense of the next poem 's conclusion . |
| 27 | Even stronger than the need to disentangle himself from his father was his desire to break free from any association with those money-grubbing relatives of his , ‘ Messrs Van Gogh and Co , . |
| 28 | As the troubadour Pous de Capdeuil put it , " What more can kings desire than the right to save themselves from hell-fire by mighty deeds of arms ? " |
| 29 | Although the horn lent itself to delicate work and when finished had a smooth feel , its natural colour , yellow , mottled and streaked with grey , was so unattractive that the Chinese stained the objects they carved from it an artificial brown . |
| 30 | Once the party aligned itself with the ranks of the oppressors , either through cynical design ( Stalin ) , or through incompetence ( the PCF leadership ) , it was time to leave . |