Example sentences of "[be] [pn reflx] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buried within the plastic explosive had been a miniature detonator , or minidet , later extracted from within a fragment of vertebra that had been itself buried in the spleen . |
| 2 | In such a theory the state is seen as not merely helping to reproduce the capitalist system in contradictory ways , but as being itself shaped by the class struggle which results from those contradictions . |
| 3 | It was not only that animals were suffering to their detriment , but their abusers were themselves brutalised in the process . |
| 4 | The miners and their families were themselves implicated in the creation of their coalfield culture , through the operation of hegemonic processes by which relations of domination and subdomination came to imbue the entire lived experience — the social practices , relationships , expectations , and dominant values . |
| 5 | While it was widely acclaimed by public sector authorities , voluntary organizations and professionals — though inevitably with some interagency squabbling and professional quibbling-its proposed ‘ agenda for action ’ was perceived as even more far-reaching and revolutionary than the Audit Commission report , although in fact many of Griffiths ' recommendations were themselves derived from the Audit Commission 's findings , translated into practical proposals . |
| 6 | This article attempts to provide some explanations for how readers of the play text or the audience of the dramatic performance are able to recognise character traits , and how these traits are themselves affected by the action of the play . |
| 7 | These are themselves limited to the provision of various forms of injunctions , which are only effective if there is a power of arrest attached , and only enforcable by the police . |
| 8 | Skirtings are generally nailed into place to timber packing pieces , called grounds , which are themselves secured to the masonry behind with large cut nails . |
| 9 | But such emotions are themselves informed by the way in which we see the world , by our conceptions of what it is that we find desirable or fearful . |
| 10 | Seniority is itself based on the length of service to the group as in the classic statement of Japanese company practices ; authority is legitimated by its long record of commitment and respect for seniority is therefore justified . |
| 11 | What they are capable of in the way of understanding and manipulating their own situation is itself determined by the whole structured in dominance , and the idea of strategy itself must be understood in holist terms . |
| 12 | The very word from which jet has been derived , the Latin gargetas , is itself named after the river and town of Gagas or Gages in Lycia , Asia Minor . |
| 13 | The limited nature of the proposed level of competition is itself accepted in the Electricity Directive : |
| 14 | What is normal behaviour is itself influenced by the pattern of early experiences which are common to that society . |
| 15 | Finally , the new technology is itself incorporated into the production process , in the form of , for example , robots , CNC machine tools , or word processors , and so displaces various types of worker . |
| 16 | They found that moving traps were indeed consuming energy — cells used up 29 per cent of their ATP in the three seconds of closure , Venus fly-traps clamp down on their prey as a result of irreversible cell expansion , which is itself caused by the activation of wall loosening enzymes by a lowered p H in the cell wall . |
| 17 | Alongside this , there has been growing awareness of the plasticity of the nervous system and of the extent to which the ‘ hard-wiring ’ of the wetware of the brain is itself modulated by the brain 's own experience . |
| 18 | It is itself required for the fulfilment of the task we usually associate with political authority . |
| 19 | Unfortunately Glam was himself bested by the GHOST and he , too , became a surly and violent ‘ walker after death ’ . |
| 20 | Justin Lekhanya , who seized power in 1986 from the then Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan , was himself led into the studio of Radio Lesotho by troops on April 30 and made to broadcast his own resignation as Chairman of the six-member ruling Military Council . |
| 21 | Macdonald was himself expelled from the country , while Lin Jie was imprisoned for his alleged ‘ treason ’ . |
| 22 | Robinson established a close relationship with Monck and was himself returned to the Convention Parliament for London . |
| 23 | Benedict , at less than ten years of age , was himself delivered into the care of the mother he had not seen for almost two years . |
| 24 | Russia , she argued , was no longer the gendarme of Europe ; increasingly ramshackle and transformed by rapid industrialization , it was itself faced with the threat of revolution . |
| 25 | The basic dimension of a mill was its width which determined both the length and the height , and which was itself determined by the length of the cotton-spinning ‘ mule ’ . |
| 26 | The latter ( which is not internationally recognized other than by Turkey ) was declared in November 1983 by the Assembly of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus , which was itself created after the occupation by Turkish troops of about 40 per cent of the island 's area in July 1974 . |
| 27 | With the formation of the coalition in May 1940 , the central organisation was itself weakened by the absorption of the two leading officers of the Research Department into the government : Arthur Greenwood took office in Churchill 's Cabinet and Grant McKenzie was recruited to assist Attlee in the latter 's government tasks . |
| 28 | Ironically , then , the trajectory which today produces the Marxist argument that poststructuralism neglects history was itself initiated by the claim that Marxism itself had been invalidated by history . |