Example sentences of "[that] the [noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 The effect is that the individual identifies herself with an existence which is imposed upon her .
4 Its main function , however , is to ensure that the system rids itself of unwanted air .
5 Is the inescapable conclusion , therefore , that the régime finds itself between the devil and the deep blue sea ?
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 ’ .
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