Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pn reflx] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own group called itself the Free Conservatives , set up an office to rival that of the official party , and supplied money and professional assistance to rebels at by-elections . |
| 2 | They had been arrested on Dec. 17 and held at the premises of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance in Abidjan accused of the possession of documents supporting a group calling itself the Democratic Convention of African People , material considered hostile to the Eyadema regime . |
| 3 | There was brawling at the Republicans ' conference in West Berlin in July 1989 and in mid-October a splinter group calling itself the Democratic Republicans of Germany ( Demokratische Republikaner Deutschlands ) was formed in Hannover . |
| 4 | Other incidents included explosions on April 2 and 3 , 1989 , which caused damage at the British Cultural Centre in Kizilay ; a group calling itself the Revolutionary Left claimed responsibility . |
| 5 | An anonymous caller to a newspaper claimed that a ( previously unknown ) Islamic fundamentalist group calling itself the Islamic Movement had killed Ucok because of her secularist and feminist stand against the current fundamentalist campaign for the veiling of women . |
| 6 | On June 23 a group calling itself the Islamic Liberation Front threatened to carry out terrorist attacks against the Kuwaiti government unless it cancelled the death sentences . |
| 7 | One of the most amusing was when a group calling itself the Renewable Energy Generating Board drove on to the proposed reactor site and installed a miniature array of ten-foot-high wind turbines . |
| 8 | The author sets himself the lofty task of presenting the reader with a balanced description of the entire field through fermentation , microbial metabolism , copolymer composition control , to solid state physical properties and biodegradation . |
| 9 | SERVANT : My lady , a gentleman calling himself the noble Spaniard waits to see you . |
| 10 | On May 7th farmers , politicians and ex-generals who oppose majority rule met in Pretoria to launch a new alliance calling itself the Afrikaner Volksfront , or Afrikaner People 's Front . |
| 11 | Five years later , in 1833 , King William IV became Patron and gave the Society permission to call itself The Royal Perth Golfing Society . |
| 12 | The prospect of1993 and the abolition of customs controls between EC countries has spurred the Italian State to set itself the awe-inspiring task of cataloguing a further two million items of its national heritage within two years in execution of its duty to ‘ care for Italy 's landscape , history and cultural heritage ’ ( to quote the Constitution ) . |
| 13 | The communist-controlled north under Kim 11-sung proclaimed itself the Democratic People 's Republic , the capitalist south under Syngman Rhee became the Republic of Korea . |
| 14 | He had tried out such individual projects himself the previous year when the resources first arrived , and the results were encouraging , so he was extending it : " having got more resources they were no longer all fighting over one or two books " . |
| 15 | With representatives arriving in Blackpool for today 's opening session of the most critical of Conservative conferences for many years , the former Cabinet minister finds himself the focal point for public and party disaffection with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 16 | Secondly , their eyes are on eternal truth , of which each party deems itself the sole defender . |