Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until recently it has tended to be a middle-class , if not an upper-class , home where the father prides himself on being able to provide well for his family , and the mother prides herself on being a good ‘ homemaker ’ who runs the establishment with precise efficiency , giving careful consideration to the basic ( i.e. material ) needs of all the occupants . |
| 2 | Similar reasoning could be applied where the plaintiff puts himself in a position which is not dangerous in itself but he is aware of circumstances which make it more likely that he will suffer harm . |
| 3 | However , where a company establishes itself in another member state all the rules of that member state which Apply to its own nationals apply equally to that company . |
| 4 | The court held that where a person places himself in danger and it is foreseeable that another person may attempt a rescue , the rescued person owes a duty of care to the rescuer . |
| 5 | The reformulated law makes it plain that an offence is committed if the defendant conducts himself in a way that causes his victim to anticipate that the defendant is about to use unlawful violence . |
| 6 | But if a school sees itself as a community school , giving out as much as — or more than — it takes in in the shape of benefit to individual pupils , the manager must decide with some or all the partners on which aspects of community education to concentrate . |
| 7 | Of course , this does n't mean that if a man exposes himself to you , you must be repressing that urge within yourself . |
| 8 | If a country finds itself in deficit it can really only do one of two things to put matters right . |
| 9 | What if a council finds itself on the brink ? |
| 10 | If an authority misdirects itself in law , or acts arbitrarily on the basis of considerations which lie outside its statutory powers , or so unreasonably that its decisions can not be justified by any objective standard of reasonableness , then it is the duty and function of the courts to pronounce that such decisions are invalid when these are challenged by anyone aggrieved by them and who has the necessary locus stand I to do so . |
| 11 | Precisely because the Church mistakes herself for the present form of the Kingdom , God 's rule has often had to manifest itself in the secular world outside , and frequently against , the Church ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:78 ) . |
| 12 | Corporate sailing , either as a training exercise , a reward , or just because the chairman fancies himself as Captain Bligh , is a fast growing business . |
| 13 | In the case of surveys there will always be some form of pilot survey before the researcher commits himself to the main fieldwork itself , and the more planning there is done beforehand , the less wasted time there will be in the fieldwork proper , and the easier will be the next stage , which is the analysis of the data collected . |
| 14 | Cicciolina seems to capture — articulate , as Koons would say — the essence of sexual desire , or at least that intense moment before the body abandons itself to passion . |
| 15 | As things stand , it is probably only a matter of time before the site finds itself in the hands of property speculators , a sad fate for what was one of the largest mills on the Painswick Stream . |
| 16 | Though one is lost and another damaged , the survivor is sent off into space with the forest when the scientist destroys himself with his ship to conceal the fact that the forest still exists . |
| 17 | For Lacan notes how it is only when the infant encounters itself in a ‘ mirroring ’ image that a form is set up for the face and body ; the mirror provides a perceptual gestalt ‘ ideal ’ form , which does not reflect a reality since it differs from the subject 's fragmentary experience . |
| 18 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 19 | Because the relationship of the two lines within the couplet is not predetermined , the reader is more fully engaged in the process of interpretation , a more active participant in the construction of meaning , than when a text presents itself in more straightforward linear fashion . |
| 20 | Sir Alistair 's light-hearted speech included a sideways swipe at Häagen-Dazs — ‘ it 's come to something when an ice-cream positions itself as the alternative to KY Jelly ’ and another at people who trade on their Scottish names as a guarantee of their trustworthiness — such as Robert Maxwell . |