Example sentences of "[be] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Those who teach and train children must constantly remind themselves that they were themselves once in the position of the children , and the children will in their turn , one day be in the position of the teachers .
2 These decisions are not , of course , subject to any effective process of democratic accountability and , for the reasons already outlined , these citadels of private economic power are themselves effectively beyond the pale of normal party political conflict .
3 The aesthetic form of presentation is itself part of the reinterpretation .
4 As the quote from Guttierrez shows , the struggle to build a just society is itself part of the process of salvation .
5 But to implement these policies requires winning political power , and therefore the debate about the future of the underclass is itself part of the debate about the future of left politics in Britain .
6 His paper is , therefore , partisan — it does not pretend to be other and it is itself part of the discourse in support of psychodynamic theory .
7 Robyn is rather less generous with the next supplicant , a young man who broke his ankle falling off his motorbike on New Year 's Eve , but even the least deserving candidate gets a few days ' respite , for Robyn tends to identify with the students against the system that assesses them , even though she is herself part of the system .
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