Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The core Marxist value is freedom — freedom from exploitation , freedom from the coercion of others , and freedom to realize oneself in creative labour . |
| 2 | People within enterprises who are designated to engage in environmental scanning ( and similar ) activities do not of course restrict themselves to that part of the total external information resource that happens to be publicly available at a specific point in time . |
| 3 | Institutionalised racism manifests itself in insensitive service provision in health and social services , with barriers around language , the pattern of family names and vocabulary . |
| 4 | Karadjordje 's attempt to impose himself on this structure by having himself declared ‘ Supreme Leader ’ created tensions which were never resolved during the nine years of his rebel regime . |
| 5 | Labour committed itself to immediate acceptance of the Maastricht social charter , with implications for low pay and for women , and to meeting the UN 's target for aid as a percentage of GNP within five years . |
| 6 | The most dramatic development of the last quarter of a century has been the emergence of the urban-rural shift as a major factor in population redistribution , but in the late 1970s and early 1980s its strength waned somewhat , as too did the pace of local decentralization , whereas the North-South divide reasserted itself at this time after a period of lower significance . |
| 7 | Earlier , with just seconds remaining of normal time , Mark Hughes had been sent off for a second bookable offence and his team mates then produced a magnificent display of courageous football to keep themselves in this tie . |
| 8 | The Labour Party 's environment spokesman , Dr David Clark , described the government 's decision as ‘ a squalid attempt to save themselves from electoral embarrassment ’ . |
| 9 | It would be tempting to assume that we have evidence here of some direct relationship with the Thynne family , Marquesses of Bath , at nearby Longleat ; that may be the case , but an equally likely explanation could be that the family was involved in nothing more than a slightly sycophantic attempt to ingratiate itself in some way with the local aristocracy . |
| 10 | The orange light resolved itself into four roadwork lanterns — and then he saw the cordon and roadblock with its black-and-white wooden pole which had been set up ahead , blocking off the entrance road which led up to the office-block frontage and car park . |
| 11 | Less easy to understand is the apparent willingness of the judiciary to lend themselves to this manoeuvring . |
| 12 | If so , America will have missed its best opportunity to lock itself into low inflation . |
| 13 | The result is a predictably idealistic criticism which at one level contents itself with rapid reference to formalistic definitions , and at another assesses the products of socialist realism with imprecise criteria culled generally from a liberal bourgeois critical tradition . |
| 14 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 15 | By the summer of 1925 his growing disillusionment manifested itself in ceaseless role-playing , posing , self-interrogation . |
| 16 | It must be sad and hurtful for any parent to find themselves in this situation , because the vast majority of us have nothing but our children 's good at heart . |
| 17 | The financial sector prepared itself for full deregulation and open competition with foreign institutions . |
| 18 | We are always sad when a young international athlete finds himself in this situation . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When it is difficult for the family or the child to attach themselves to each other , then at the end of the day the child will leave the family and become attached to the black community . |
| 21 | In response to Hashemi 's testimony the government of Iran issued a statement which neither confirmed nor denied that such a meeting had occurred : " The nature of the current controversies in the USA is absolutely domestic and the Islamic Republic of Iran sees no benefit to involve itself in this matter . " |
| 22 | But when I rejected everything of this sort to set myself to one purpose , my soul was absorbed with love for my Maker . |
| 23 | It is interesting to note that this example shows that what underlies Hobbes 's rejection of formal causes is , perhaps , no more than an impatience with what the Aristotelians said about them , and a desire to disassociate himself from that tradition . |
| 24 | For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live , as the greatest he ; and therefore truly , sir , I think it 's clear , that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government ; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that government that he hath not had a voice to put himself under ; … ( p. 53 ) |
| 25 | It is not surprising that Nizan 's gaze eventually alighted on the French communist party , a source of ideological certainty , a small community defending itself by rigid discipline against the fluidity , compromise and unreliability of centrist politics in Third Republic France . |
| 26 | I just wish he had n't felt a pressing need to turn himself into some sort of Hollywood-director clone for this production . |
| 27 | Quite clearly he was torn between his desire to excuse himself from further cross-examination and his obedience to the protocol which kept him in the presence of a member of the Royal Family until he was dismissed . |
| 28 | They claimed the right to liberate themselves by armed struggle and they saw any recognition of Israel 's legitimacy as contingent on Israeli and American recognition of their own right to self-determination . |
| 29 | As the police in both countries in recent years have relied increasingly on notions of professionalism to defend themselves against political attack , so police organizations have asserted themselves more publicly to promote not only their own organization , but also particular policies regarding law and order which they deem to be necessary . |
| 30 | Whether or not he does it , every person has a duty to God not to ‘ harm another in his life , … liberty , … or goods ’ , and so has a parallel right to defend himself against such attack . |