Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The eagle was so evidently , so ferociously beautiful ; one would have thought that it could have impressed itself upon the most unwilling beholder .
2 H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill .
3 One strand of modern research has devoted itself to the ferociously difficult task of building formal models that precisely state the conditions that are necessary and sufficient for competition to work , and describe whether and in what sense the result is ‘ efficient ’ .
4 Not only had he transformed the political situation among the western Saxons but he had also established himself as the most powerful ruler in southern England .
5 The German occupation proved useful in one respect , however : it spurred the formation of the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne ( CIVC ) , an organisation which has since established itself as the most successful of its type in France .
6 Since its foundation in 1961 , the NDP had established itself as the most successful social democratic party in north America , and as Canada 's third main party at federal level .
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