Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [adv] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR accurate timekeepers , a watch that automatically sets itself to special radio time signals will be launched in Europe later this year . |
| 2 | The ever-present reality in the West — industrial ‘ restructuring ’ , the whittling away of heavy industry and the growth of ever more exotic services — is not a model that automatically commends itself to imitation . |
| 3 | For a country that almost defines itself in terms of its distinctive education system , such changes are seen as an attack on the Scottish way of life . |
| 4 | If in doubt about what to do next , keep yourself busy by going around and changing all the name plates : in a move scarcely calculated to do much to restore battered confidence in the company , IBM Corp 's shrunken Cadam Inc , the Burbank , California company that now confines itself to the microcomputer versions of the computer-aided design software , has changed its name to Altium , effective immediately : it says the Altium name is part of its plan to secure the unit 's position in the desktop market and ‘ a part of the larger renewal ’ of IBM . |
| 5 | They were ordinary chaps who deliberately sold themselves short right down to their weedy name , an idea that still attaches itself to anything on the label . |