Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The German occupation proved useful in one respect , however : it spurred the formation of the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne ( CIVC ) , an organisation which has since established itself as the most successful of its type in France . |
2 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
3 | The CNAA , in its desire to ensure that the courses which it validates are of a sufficiently high standard , has necessarily concerned itself with the resources and ethos of institutions as a whole and has not hesitated to pass judgment on them , going , some would argue , beyond the responsibilities laid upon it by its Royal Charter . |
4 | They moved to Dallas , and Graham has so immersed himself in the American way of life that I am surprised he has not sought American citizenship . |
5 | By middle age Bartram has so educated himself in the classics , sciences , medicines and above all , botany , that he was regarded as one of the intellectuals of his time . |
6 | has already crapped himself about the visit cause extra work of course but er the er however we should er revert maybe we 'll keep an eye on the schedule and things er but we we need to tie it up tight so we do n't get a cos I mean what 's being said now in the corridors of power is that the schedule is totally sales driven and it 's the sales department that 's put it together , I am only the administrator , I only I d I completely take my orders from the sales department quote unquote in front of everybody at the management meeting . |
7 | Metrogel received marketing authorisation in Britain in December 1991 and was launched by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals , Bioglan 's licensee , in April 1992 ; it has already established itself as the leading topical treatment for rosacea in Britain . |
8 | Carden is Europe 's most northerly commercial vineyard and in the four years since it opened has already established itself in the wine market . |
9 | Unfortunately for them , the theory remains unproven for there is no evidence that the central nervous system of any human being has ever restructured itself in the manner suggested . |
10 | The original Hebrew does not quite spell that out in detail , but that was what was meant , and has forever attached itself to the sin of sodomy which was until recently against the law and still is with those under 21 years of age . |
11 | Japan has always prided itself in the high quality of its water supply . |
12 | has always involved himself with the community and it was during his first term of office here that one of our cherished hopes came to fruition , a community centre for , called The Village Hall . |
13 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
14 | As with CPL 's other products , Monoplank has quickly established itself as the No.1 choice and is now specified by leading architects throughout the country . |
15 | The new UNO coalition government has clearly distanced itself from the Sandinista view of education . |
16 | The burgeoning opposition movement here has also extended itself to the army . |
17 | The specific effects of the written text have been the preoccupation of literary theory from Derrida and Barthes onward , and the writerly nature of the novel has often manifested itself in the form of typographical devices which defy oral utterance or those specific to the codex . |
18 | Although still in a state of shock , Mr Singh has now appointed himself to the full chairmanship and , along with myself , represented the club at the funeral . |
19 | GE is headed by former environment minister Brice Lalonde and was set up with Mitterrand 's encouragement , but Lalonde has increasingly distanced himself from the government in recent months , criticizing Socialist policy on the environment . |
20 | In fact the 45-year-old lawyer , a fiercely independent career woman in her own right , has been so determined to secure victory for Clinton and an influential role for herself that she has almost re-invented herself in the process . |
21 | ‘ It has completely dissociated itself from the ancient Macedonians ’ . |
22 | Archipenko , who had been a friend of Delaunay for some time , now also denied being a Cubist ; the Art column of Gil Blas reported on 14 December 1912 : ‘ M. Archipenko has formally announced that he has completely detached himself from the Cubist group whose principles he rejects . ’ |
23 | DELOITTE Haskins & Sells in the UK has firmly established itself as the Zsa Zsa Gabor of the accountancy profession . |
24 | The non-proliferation treaty has not prevented countries like Israel , India and South Africa from secretly developing nuclear weapons , but at least they have not gone public with them and no country has officially added itself to the nuclear weapons states . |
25 | It is less clear , however , to what extent and in what ways this broad division has actually manifested itself in the classroom and in internal school debates and policies , and in local authority policies . |
26 | The TPLF has recently transformed itself into the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Movement to give itself more national credibility , but its core remains the Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray , whose political model seems closest to the late Enver Hoxha 's Albania . |
27 | LTOM has never established itself in the way that foreign counterparts have done . |
28 | ‘ Sara has never concerned herself with the business . ’ |
29 | Indeed , one of the leading contenders for the post , Edouard Balladur , has specifically dissociated himself from the British government , which pulled sterling out of the European currency grid last year and substantially cut interest rates . |
30 | And just as she will not keep the caterpillar restricted to one plane of vision , so also she avoids obsessively restricting herself to the object . |