Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start of your diving day , just press the face button once and watch the bar graph around the perimeter of the display countdown while the DataMax Sport zeroes itself to your current altitude , checks all internal functions and battery power . |
| 2 | What really matters at the moment is that the rugby pot keeps itself on the boil , so that it wo n't need too much of a boost from the fickle flames of European International rugby , when it returns in the New Year , to reactivate the interest of the casual followers uncovered by the World Cup . |
| 3 | Finally , Dina Vierny is showing self portraits by Vladimir Yankilevski , in all of which the Muscovite artist depicts himself in profile , among fragments of superimposed surfaces . |
| 4 | The Sutcliffe Studio prides itself on its broadcast quality camera work and this presents an attractive film of this part of Wales . |
| 5 | The word consultant lends itself to a very wide interpretation and many food service operators , and particularly hotel operators , believe they are all capable of being food service consultants . |
| 6 | In this reading of things , each bureaucracy has become adept at marking out turf and advancing its own interests , whilst the Party-State leadership finds itself in the position of ‘ broker ’ between contending interests and ‘ constituencies ’ . |
| 7 | The woman who sells you a ticket at the bus office crosses herself for you as she makes it out . |
| 8 | ( Later in the same version of the myth Attis castrates himself under a pine tree . |
| 9 | The effect of Lenin 's strategy , he warned , would be that the party substitutes itself for the class , ‘ the party organization substitutes itself for the party , the Central Committee substitutes itself for the organization and , finally , a ‘ dictator ’ substitutes himself for the Central Committee ’ . |
| 10 | In it , the Hucknall left-back reveals himself to be a chip off the Sid Kelly block : ‘ favourite food — 32oz steak-with-everything ’ . |