Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rulers who argue that a country has to be well-off before it can afford to be politically decent to its people are generally providing themselves with an excuse for continuing in their bad old ways . |
| 2 | Opposition forwards are not committing themselves to the ruck or maul . |
| 3 | A positive attitude is and important asset when it comes to maintaining a workout regime , and that comes with knowing that you are not pitting yourself against the impossible . |
| 4 | I think you can be much more relaxed about the way your child 's growing up if you 're not over-investing yourself in the way it grows up , if you follow me . |
| 5 | That is , when they 're not watching themselves in the mirrors , making sure that they are still up to the mark . |
| 6 | By asserting it , however , we are also committing ourselves to a general conditional proposition of a standard kind . |
| 7 | TWO-TIMING men with neatly trimmed pencil moustaches who like to drink as hard as they work are unwittingly modelling themselves upon a style that is at least 4,500 years old , archaeologists have discovered . |
| 8 | I 'm not patting myself on the back — it 's a highly competitive business and one needs selfish , single-minded dedication to succeed , but because female comics were rare in my day , competition was negligible , and I was able to be generous . |
| 9 | Well I 'm still getting myself in a tangle , like I was when I came . |
| 10 | The BBC were thus putting themselves in a very difficult journalistic and legal position . |
| 11 | According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 19 , Mahathir 's position was not being directly challenged , but many senior UMNO leaders were nevertheless positioning themselves for a future succession battle . |
| 12 | We were already congratulating ourselves on a smooth and successful ascent , but you must beware . |
| 13 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 14 | The emergent divisions of labour in industrialised society were also a prime means by which modern societies were still sustaining themselves in a relatively conflict-free way . |
| 15 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 16 | We have always said that it is not for nothing that the Unix prompts are dollar and percentage signs and at last somebody out there has the common sense to recognise that fact too : the new Unix Reseller Show , set for May 4 to 6 in Dallas , is blatantly promoting itself with the slogan ‘ How To Make Money With Unix ’ ; if that does n't bring the punters piling in , nothing will . |
| 17 | The new Unix Reseller Show , set for May 4–6 in Dallas , is blatantly promoting itself with the slogan ‘ How To Make Money With Unix . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We produce extruded sheet to complement our cell cast range , ’ says Dr Casey , ‘ And have reently introduced a new variety — ‘ Perspex ’ TW — which is rapidly establishing itself as a rigid transparent building material for roofs and non-structural walls . ’ |
| 19 | However , Visionware is also priming itself for the opening of its US office in California on July 1 . |
| 20 | As I have shown above , there is a strong tendency in the organization to dismiss the social sciences , and it therefore seems fair to suggest that any police officer who elects to read for a degree in that discipline is knowingly placing himself into a position of outsider . |
| 21 | With poetry about as popular as evening crochet classes , it 's no mean feat that Lemn Sissay is fast establishing himself as an ingenious scribe with a tangible vibe . |
| 22 | She parallels her experience struggling to gain control of her body on the trapeze with her struggle with the creative process ; ‘ working on the trapeze one is continually putting oneself in a position of overcoming fear . |
| 23 | Central administration has been continually adapting itself to the new demands made upon it by the creation of services . |
| 24 | Unisoft Inc , the London and New York-based Unix house that has been quietly transforming itself into a system integrator and bespoke application developer has broken its near silence of the last couple of years and come out with what it calls a ‘ highly portable ’ version of Unix V.4 — UniPlus+ SVR4/MIPS . |
| 25 | In adopting this chic mode of expression , the nouveau riche was effectively distinguishing itself from the traditional middle classes while at the same time flaunting the fact that it had connoisseurship and taste . |
| 26 | Now Sixsmith was gently frisking himself with a deepening frown . |
| 27 | And , like the romantic fool I was , I thought Mathilda was only offering herself in an act of desperation . |
| 28 | She was suddenly seeing herself as a desirable young woman — a woman the famous Maître of the Maison de Verveine might have wanted to marry had he been free . |
| 29 | He was just wrapping himself in a garish Hong Kong dressing-gown when the door burst open and a hulking first lieutenant in combat dress , his helmet stuffed with leaves and his face already smeared with camouflage cream , stood staring at him . |
| 30 | ‘ The truth is I knew throughout the summer that my game was not as sharp and I was not enjoying myself on the course as I did in 1991 . |