Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pn reflx] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do nothing about those feelings , the recipient will probably be totally unaware of them ; if you translate them into action , you may well be setting in motion a train of events which will cause harm and destruction , bringing as much grief to yourself as to the object of your ill-will . |
| 2 | To sum up what I have outlined so far , the view of Wimsatt and Brooks is that the essential property of poetry consists in the reconciliation of harmonization of opposites ; that this takes the form of an objective organization of the objective meanings of words ; and that although the same organization generally can not be found in other kinds of discourse , it nonetheless contributes to our knowledge and experience of ourselves and of the world . |
| 3 | His prose too is highly mannered in both his Latin and his English treatises ; it calls attention to itself and to the writer in striking contrast to the calm , lucid prose of our other mystics , who are all careful to make it clear that their word is not law but only their own opinion . |
| 4 | This means that social interaction requires mutual effort by the actors as they attempt to establish the definition of the situation for each other and negotiate appropriate behaviour for themselves and for the other . |
| 5 | The poem , of epic proportions , illuminates the way in which Will arrives at such " kynde knowynge " which embraces both knowledge of himself and of the love of God . |
| 6 | But the quality of activity which then follows and the way in which that activity is judged ( either as an event in itself or through the assessment of the child 's learning which emerges from it ) still needs patient examination . |
| 7 | Sometimes women turn their anger against themselves as in the pain of bereavement : take overdoses of sleeping pills , cut their hair short , rake their skin with their finger nails , feeling that physical pain is more tolerable than emotional pain . |
| 8 | Neither is it necessary to have what is known as a ‘ spiritual experience ’ — a single moment in time when the individual has a sense of himself and of the world in a way which transcends both the physical and the psychological . |
| 9 | The National Portrait Gallery habitually commissions portraits of notable figures for its collection , and , of course , members of the Royal Family are painted regularly , providing a time-lapse documentary of themselves and of the fashions of their age , both in clothes and in painting . |
| 10 | The glass was spotted and discoloured now , and in its depths Louise saw only a sepia-tinted reproduction of herself and of the room behind her . |
| 11 | The algae photosynthesise food for themselves and in the process absorb carbon dioxide from the water . |
| 12 | Such recall led the individual to a deeper understanding of himself and of the traumatic effect on his life of the hitherto ‘ forgotten ’ incidents . |
| 13 | As the universe aged , the slightly over-dense areas left by inflation would draw dark matter to themselves because of the force of gravity . |
| 14 | ‘ The simple answer , I suppose , is that I take a look at myself and at the world around me . ’ |
| 15 | A statement may be made in writing , orally or even by contract , for example , by making the goods tell a lie about themselves as in the case where the seller patched up a crack in the barrel of a cannon so as to make it appear unfractured , Horsfall v. Thomas ( 1862 ) . |
| 16 | Griffith was seduced by his own myth of himself and by the preoccupations of the Progressive era into believing that he was a serious thinker , whereas in truth he was an old-fashioned story-teller who had spontaneously discovered how the technology of film could be used to give stories a tremendous power . |
| 17 | That since we have realised the position of women in the printing trade is seriously threatened , we women have been trying to organise ourselves with a view to securing justice for ourselves and for the women who may in future desire to practise the business of compositors or monotypists . |
| 18 | Man is endowed with an insatiable curiosity about himself and about the world around him , in his perception of which his own nature finds its reflection . |
| 19 | Lucien could not see very far in front of himself because of the tablecloth over his face and was unaware of the bewildered and amused glances he received from passing house staff . |
| 20 | Aboriginal life was once in balance with itself and with the world . |
| 21 | One part of the answer has nothing to do with technology in itself but in the structural changes that are taking place in European societies . |