Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At p596 Stamp J asked the rhetorical question : … how can a British Income Tax Act impute to a foreign resident " for the purposes of " that Act an income of which the foreigner has divested himself under the foreign law and which in his hands is altogether outside all the provisions of the Income Tax Act ? |
| 2 | One example in Torquay , Devon , has proven itself over a few years . |
| 3 | As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need . |
| 4 | ( By stepping back as he blocks , he doubly protects himself : even if the block fails , he has distanced himself from the oncoming punch . ) |
| 5 | That matter is high on their agenda , and the hon. Gentleman may recall that the Labour party has distinguished itself over the past 40 years by being wrong about practically every foreign policy and defence issue that has come before it . |
| 6 | On the continuum of penal philosophy which stretches from the punitive to the reformative , the Nicaraguan penal system has placed itself on the far edge of reform . |
| 7 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 8 | Despite the retirement of coaching team-mates Jim Telfer and Derrick Grand after the recent World Cup , Ian McGeechan has committed himself to a further term as Scotland 's principal coach . |
| 9 | He would have been a natural replacement for Blair , but in another cruel twist , Gallagher , a university student in Northampton , has committed himself to the English club this season and will not be available to Dungannon for the league . |
| 10 | Labour has committed itself to a wide range of civil-liberties legislation and constitutional reform when it returns to government , to counter what its Deputy Leader , Mr Hattersley , has described as the vulnerability of traditional freedoms to the dual threat of ‘ legal restriction and a cynical partnership between Government and private enterprise ’ . |
| 11 | What the procedure does not permit is an exploration of alternative approaches , an understanding of the views of outside groups ( unless they think it worth briefing MPs ) and there is no scope for public opinion to form and react before the government has committed itself to a definite approach to the problem . |
| 12 | We know perfectly well that the Labour party has committed itself to an additional £35,000 million of public spending and no capping on local authority expenditure . |
| 13 | Overall , the search for ‘ a ’ cure for cancer has resolved itself into a large number of separate questions , many of which have still to be solved . |
| 14 | St William 's has presented itself as a prime mover and so it falls to St William 's to work out how to express itself as a managing agent . |
| 15 | There are many teachers who feel that things are that bad , and for whom , at some tacit level of decision-making , becoming ‘ like that ’ has presented itself as the only sensible , or the only possible modus operandi that is left . |
| 16 | In this way by not acceding to anger and resentment , he has made himself into a better son . |
| 17 | He has shown himself as a devoted family man ; Ms Campbell is twice divorced and childless . |
| 18 | Could our good Christian Mrs Dallam possibly expose her daughter , and her friends ' daughters , to a woman like Marie , who has shown herself on a public stage for money , and lived with one man while married to another ? |
| 19 | The extent to which the company has transformed itself over the past dozen years should not be underestimated . |
| 20 | ‘ He has got himself into the most God almighty muddle , ’ he said , adding almost hopelessly , ‘ he is not a worldly person . |
| 21 | Isabella Rosellini has armed herself with a fizzing S and V — ve vill , vo n't we ? |
| 22 | The rest of the session , including Summerchild 's confession , or his heroic refusal to confess , has broadcast itself about the little attic room , bounced off the walls , been absorbed in the carpet , faded to silence and passed out of history . |
| 23 | For the first time , a major interpretative musician has equipped himself with the necessary skills to mastermind his own visualization of the music he conducts , which allows him , in the process , to offer a new generation of music-lovers a sophisticated set of options for the study and appreciation of music in performance . |
| 24 | WORLD cricket has distilled itself into the English game : the World Cup is over , South Africa have played their first Test match against the West Indies and now the far flung stars of these international matches have flown in to fill the last few places in the carousel of English county cricket . |
| 25 | It has turned its back on the elitism of many consumer organisations and has based itself on a democratic structure in which the voluntary efforts of the members determine policy and action . |
| 26 | For the past five years she has devoted herself to the United Nations Children 's Fund and became its ambassador in an effort to help the world 's sick and starving children . |
| 27 | What is important to note is that the collaboration between Grover Jackson and Randy Rhoads in designing this guitar was both fruitful and a complete success , because between them they produced an instrument which , in Randy 's hands , has provided itself with an impressive track record . |
| 28 | One scholar has found himself in the awkward position of having to describe William Falconer , author of The Shipwreck , as ‘ a peasant of the sea ’ . |
| 29 | After the young animal has imprinted itself on a particular individual , its attachments are fairly irreversible . |
| 30 | The noise/horror aesthetic has driven itself into a dead(ening) end . |