Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Students ' Union is supported financially by a grant from the University and by the income it generates itself through commercial services . |
| 2 | The Students ' Union is supported financially by a grant from the University and by the income it generates itself through commercial services . |
| 3 | The racism which manifests itself in employment is only one , albeit crucial , part of the general experience of discrimination and subordination that black people have had to confront in Britain . |
| 4 | Her mind was full of the future which presented itself as a bright empty space crossed by tracks of her own shining , clear-cut flights , her passage swift and sunlit . |
| 5 | The Iranians might welcome a secession in Iraq 's south , especially if the Shias who detached themselves from Baghdad chose later to attach themselves to their co-religionists in Tehran . |
| 6 | As W S Steer pointed out , ‘ … the department which prides itself on never making a mistake is almost certainly grossly overstaffed ’ ( Wiseman 1970:87 ) . |
| 7 | Moreover , I should warn those present of the risks they expose themselves to under McNab 's treatment … which is , however , not a treatment at all , but a waste of time . |
| 8 | In the process of reading the images they construct themselves as a particular kind of audience . |
| 9 | Out there in the cold snow Dane Jacobsen had stripped away some of the barriers she protected herself with . |
| 10 | Occasionally , there are other setbacks , though none as spectacular as the mess he got himself into during 1989 . |
| 11 | The former '80s high flier is already well on the way to digging itself out of the mess it got itself into a few years back . |
| 12 | ‘ The manufacture which forces itself upon a stranger 's eye is that of knit-stockings , on which the women of the lower class are visibly employed . ’ |
| 13 | In his early days at the Bar he supported himself with such kindred activities as washing up at Lyons and libel reading for the News of the World . |
| 14 | But it lives on in the poems we wrote together , and in the poems I wrote myself in Salamanca and Bath . |
| 15 | This problem faced by the teacher who sees himself as deliverer of prepacked information is admirably expressed by Caldwell Cook , who worked in the Perse School , Cambridge . |
| 16 | Ken lost interest completely , For the moment he contented himself with pinning the notice to the inner door of the club and taking great delight in reading it to two young black guys who had arrived carrying saxophone cases . |
| 17 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 18 | The determination and effective preparedness of the nuclear powers to mount an instant all-out nuclear counter-strike the moment it perceives itself to be under nuclear attack must be condemned as an illegitimate threat of force , and is rightly so condemned by the world 's peace movement . |
| 19 | When at last we emerged into the open we found ourselves on a plain , perhaps a mile wide , lying between the hills and the river . |
| 20 | By the time he was three years old , he had the scabbiest knees in the nursery from all the scrapes he got himself into . |
| 21 | ROB and Ali Campbell of UB40 , the band who call themselves after an unemployment relief form , are delighted to be on their way back to Belfast . |
| 22 | In the Commons he devoted himself to Indian affairs with an emphasis on finance and on opening the Indian Civil Service to Indians . |
| 23 | In the context of special need this means selecting competent , adaptable and understanding staff who are sensitive to the needs which present themselves in the school and who are prepared to undertake the study and training required to keep pace with developments . |
| 24 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 25 | A gunfight that stretched from dawn until night as the group who believed themselves to be Ukrainian patriots held out , without hope of rescue or reinforcement , against the encircling advance of Moscow 's soldiers . |
| 26 | The City streets were fairly quiet of course , but as we passed into the suburbs we found ourselves in the midst of the Saturday morning shopping rush . |
| 27 | For the less rarified among us they are the things you press yourself between before turning out the light . |
| 28 | Using his wings he begins to glide downwards , and by dropping one wing tip and then the other he guides himself towards the enemy army and his chosen target . |
| 29 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |
| 30 | Hi 's desperate overland journey is interrupted by weather , by bandits , by the hazards of terrain : finally captured by Lopez 's Reds , he learns that even while he was pressing forward with his message , Carlotta had been seized by Lopez and , after refusing to pray to him as the God he declares himself to be , had been brutally slaughtered by the public hangman . |