Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [pron] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A UK parent company with wholly-owned subsidiaries is itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of a US parent company whose securities are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission . |
| 2 | So how many years were you a French polisher then ? |
| 3 | In addition the closeness of the alliance and the sheer multiplicity of contacts were themselves a major cause of ill-feeling — as in a family . |
| 4 | This is a crucial stage of development from that in which — in the earlier stages substantially , in the later stages residually — artists were themselves a specific form of social organization . |
| 5 | AEA 's extensive expertise and experience , and unrivalled access to the range of technology and systems needed , means that services can be tailored to meet precise requirements be it a single isolator or a comprehensive containment or a hazardous materials handling project for the pharmaceutical or process industry . |
| 6 | It has been pointed out that the location of those markets is itself a telling advantage to Scottish traders because they all have weak currencies ( the lira and peseta ) while former German and Dutch suppliers are forced to trade with the strongest ( the deutschmark and the guilder ) . |
| 7 | The alcohol in alcoholic drinks is itself an organic solvent , and it ‘ competes ’ with several other solvents for detoxification enzymes , slowing their breakdown . |
| 8 | The fact that the number of children is itself a random variable introduces a further stochastic element into the wealth — income generating process . |
| 9 | The counter-move to such complaints is to say that the concept of lucidity is itself repressive , and that unravelling Derrida 's meanings is itself a deconstructive act , directed against hegemonic ideological positions . |
| 10 | Resolving the question as to what are to be perceived as such costs and benefits is itself a hard task . |
| 11 | When I obey or defy ‘ Face facts ’ , my welcoming or resisting of the facts is itself a psychological process in causal interaction with spontaneous inclination ; on the one hand emotional bias distorts judgement , on the other desire or aversion veers with additional information . |
| 12 | The economic and constitutional rights of the republics , at the same time , should be increased and defined more precisely ; but any changes of this kind must take account of the fact that each of the republics was itself a multinational state in which the interests of all national groups must be properly respected . |