Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Predation between invertebrates if we confine ourselves in the macro sense and exclude zooplankton feeding invertebrates is mainly due to mobile forms attacking and feeding upon sessile forms . |
| 2 | The biological positivists did not , however , involve themselves in the detailed specification of penal treatments . |
| 3 | Wild fish ‘ accidentally ’ provide themselves with the right mix of fats , vitamins , minerals , proteins and carbohydrates ; our Koi have no such choice . |
| 4 | Test yourself with the following passage , which contains misspelt words taken from examination scripts . |
| 5 | Now place yourself inside the regulationist framework , that is , adopt the stance of a regulationist in relation to the other two theories . |
| 6 | In fact , she thought , as she made her way through a section of the shop-floor and let herself into the occupational health centre , she did n't even know his name . |
| 7 | They just let themselves in the back door , he said , took the money and smashed the place . |
| 8 | Furthermore , firms may set themselves several targets and not simply restrict themselves to the sole target of profit maximisation . |
| 9 | Imagine yourself in the new office , or at the successful interview , or signing the contract — and see every detail as clearly as possible . |
| 10 | 1816 " The meeting have now to relieve Shawfield of the sums now payble. to the Schools in Islay , charge themselves with the said sum , as a provision for four Schoolmasters , at the rate of £16:13:4 Sterl. to each . " |
| 11 | It was decided in Att. -Gen. for Northern Ireland v. Gallagher that the House need not in all circumstances confine itself to the certified question . |
| 12 | Save yourself for the serious business of eating . |
| 13 | When they dissociate themselves from the academic world of their time , they are making the time-honoured mystical point that what Wordsworth would call ‘ the meddling intellect ’ had nothing to do with the vision of God . |
| 14 | Get yourself ready , and we 'll see how they enjoy themselves in the Big House . ’ |
| 15 | So when we have real emotions about someone , we lift ourselves from the shallow level of selfishness into the real and eternal . |
| 16 | Individually these are small matters but collectively they are important in the way we present ourselves to the outside world , or in modern jargon the way we market the profession . |
| 17 | Six was brought up in the family business but declining trade prompted him to retire early and devote himself to the wide range of interests typical of an eighteenth-century intellectual , although there is no evidence that he ever received any formal training . |
| 18 | And so they depart — on board ship — ( The two SPIES position themselves on either side of the PLAYER , and the three of them sway gently in unison , the motion of a boat ; and then the PLAYER detaches himself. ) — and they arrive — ( One SPY shades his eyes at the horizon. ) — and disembark — and present themselves before the English king- ( He wheels round . ) |
| 19 | Until I come , devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture , to preaching and to teaching . |
| 20 | Patients may only record negative urine testing results in the preprandial state and starve themselves before the diabetic clinic . |
| 21 | Then amuse yourself in the long autumn evenings , ’ said Thorfinn , ‘ working out what bargain he made with them before he came north . |
| 22 | Go around the group and have everybody in turn explain a particular example of their coping , or the task they set themselves during the preceding week . |
| 23 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
| 24 | Perhaps we should not be too surprised when we find ourselves in the new world of quality primary care . |
| 25 | And I 'd like to explain since we find ourselves in the real world , rather than fantasy land , how we 've approached the subject of client server . |
| 26 | In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto 's ‘ numinous ’ , the ‘ mysterium tremendum et fascinans ’ — the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror — which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature ; not least in Leonard 's expression of it . |
| 27 | " We have no aggressive intentions and we commit ourselves to the peaceful resolution of all disputes . |
| 28 | Mr Spooner said : ‘ It is a scandal that the Government is prepared to sit back and see Amsterdam 's Schiphol airport promote itself as the ideal destination for passengers from the UK regions wishing to connect with inter-continental flights . |
| 29 | The conventions , or unwritten rules , of the constitution were seen as of crucial significance since they secured " in a roundabout way what is called abroad the " sovereignty of the people " " thus making for a governmental system in which " the will of the electors shall by regular and constitutional means always in the end assert itself as the predominant influence in the country " . |
| 30 | It is a source of some sadness to me that I now find myself on the other side of the fence from Samuel Brittan in the debate on managed and fixed currencies . |