Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE British government tends to see itself as a bastion of common sense where European environmental policy is concerned , weighing benefits against costs which more dogmatic governments ignore . |
| 2 | ( 5 ) Postmodern culture seems to proclaim itself as an avant-garde at the same time as announcing that avant.gardes no longer exist . |
| 3 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 4 | The penal system needs to legitimate itself with three groups of people : with the public ( including politicians , commentators etc. ) , with penal staff ( including prison staff and probation officers ) and with the penal subjects ( prisoners , probationers and others who are subject to penal treatment ) . |
| 5 | To be fished on the prolific waters around Galway this new event promises to establish itself as one of Ireland 's best . |
| 6 | Current possession of human , physical and financial capital tends to reinforce itself in successive periods , although not completely so . |