Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But later in life Augustine declared : ‘ He therefore who refuses to obey the imperial laws , when made against the truth of God acquires a great reward , he who refuses to obey when they are made for the support of the divine truth exposes himself to most grievous punishment . ’ |
| 2 | The muscular frame lends itself to ‘ strength ’ sports and is often defined as the ‘ pear shape ’ because of the wide hips . |
| 3 | You must assail it with Bassey from one side and Streisand from the other , whereupon the hapless bird rips itself in half , uncertain which escape route to take . |
| 4 | The Franco-German axis styles itself as the leading force in the Community and , while both countries make explicit reference to their special relationship in speeches in each other 's countries , the primacy of this alliance is clearly played down in the other countries of the EC , not least because it negates the whole point of having a community . |
| 5 | The budding Academy sees itself as an alternative to established institutions such as Berlin 's Akademie der Künste whose ongoing merger of the West and East branches , beset by political wrangling , has alienated many artists ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.3 ) . |
| 6 | The budding Academy sees itself as an alternative to established institutions such as Berlin 's Akademie der Künste whose ongoing merger of the West and East branches , beset by political wrangling , has alienated many artists ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.3 ) . |
| 7 | For it is an essential part of the pattern that the complete goddess manifests herself in two antithetical ways — as the Venus of sexual love and the Diana of virginity . |
| 8 | AS THE Labour leadership congratulates itself on a virtually unprecedented exhibition of unity and moderation , they should be aware that knives are being sharpened at Conservative Central Office . |
| 9 | There I saw men kissing and holding and loving each other ; something that I never thought possible as the mainstream culture manifests itself in overwhelmingly heterosexual and macho terms . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman excites himself without cause . |
| 11 | There was a lot of closed , closed questions , remember that , the actual page lends itself to it er well |
| 12 | The effect of Lenin 's strategy , he warned , would be that the party substitutes itself for the class , ‘ the party organization substitutes itself for the party , the Central Committee substitutes itself for the organization and , finally , a ‘ dictator ’ substitutes himself for the Central Committee ’ . |
| 13 | Much of the overall improvement owes itself to improving fertilizer prices and better productivity . |
| 14 | And yet she was aware of something lovely somewhere , something that was gone , or hidden , or yet to be attained : she supposed her therapist would say that this unrealistic shard of broken vision dated back to her infancy , when the human animal believes itself to be omnipotent , immortal and an integral part of all that is . |
| 15 | And yet in one way the later poet contradicts himself in the next stanza by following the traditional pastoral view that there is plentiful and ‘ luscious ’ fruit , ready to be picked and savoured . |
| 16 | By inventing a myth , the epic poet frees himself from the group . |
| 17 | As Gramsci points out ( 1971 : 260 ) , ‘ the bourgeois class poses itself as an organism in continuous movement , capable of absorbing the whole society , assimilating it to its own cultural and economic level ’ , and this would-be universalizing push provides one of the most important elements in music history of the last two hundred years . |
| 18 | Although the family seat was sold off in the fifties , the thirteenth Earl finds himself in a very similar sort of house , and the comparison is instructive . |
| 19 | … the elderly woman adapts herself to her stage better than her husband . |
| 20 | If the weaker goat gets itself into a position from which it can not escape , it may be gored , and indeed may be killed . |
| 21 | The low angle means that all shadows — ours , the dogs ' , the trees ' — are long and ghostly across the ice , and the orange light wraps itself around everything so that all things seem to be part of one thing . |
| 22 | The first voice concerns itself with the story , which is loosely based on the tradition of women weaving and chanting to the rhythms of their work . |
| 23 | For instance , Wilkinson ( 1990 : 81 ) suggests that ‘ information which has been highlighted by being fronted in the Dutch clause lends itself to a translation in English using an IT cleft ’ , but notes that trainee translators working from Dutch into English fail to make use of predicated and identifying themes in their English translations . |
| 24 | The Dutch government rids itself of the art mountain |
| 25 | Usually , the larval stage confines itself to relatively small mammals such as mice , and it is the nymph and adult forms which go for humans , though usually only accidentally . |
| 26 | As the conservative party prepares itself for a turbulent debate on Europe tomorrow , many of them will be turning to the work of a Cotswold publisher for guidance . |
| 27 | Vaulting is made in bays and the semi-circular arch lends itself to a square bay . |
| 28 | But even though the 23-year-old winger fancies himself after four in three games for Manchester United , his wallet will stay in his pocket . |
| 29 | The new complex lends itself to mechanised materials handling … whilst the cost of construction has been high , rental costs have been eliminated . |
| 30 | This is the period when the new owner asserts himself as pack leader . |