Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funding employee claims itself . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Carbon monoxide attaches itself to haemoglobin much more easily than oxygen does . |
| 4 | Renshaw considers the extent to which case management lends itself to care planning and to the principles of normalization . |
| 5 | A young woman with a shopping trolley finds herself caught in the crossfire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The ‘ Bantustan effect ’ is a system by which a developed and dominating core area surrounds itself by poor and backward ‘ sovereign ’ states . |
| 8 | The stories of Blake and the various defectors show how easily the intelligence fraternity fools itself . |
| 9 | I am well aware of the aware of the high standards that the Medau Society sets itself . |
| 10 | Former town crier sets himself alight |
| 11 | I would love to have short negotiations because I am deeply conscious of the serious position in which the farming industry finds itself because of its lack of knowledge of where we are going . |
| 12 | The agnostic 42-year-old former drama teacher describes himself as ‘ a teller of tales , stories and elaborate lies ’ . |
| 13 | And today THE 1 FM ROADSHOW excels itself with Chris De Burgh in Bude . |
| 14 | Similarly a Yorkshire millworker describes himself as brought up by a grandfather ‘ who cared for me as perhaps few grandchildren are cared for ; ’ when the old man died during his teens , ‘ by this death I lost a friend . ’ |
| 15 | Would-be teacher learns to count her blessings AFTER five months teaching English to handicapped children in Poland , a Stokesley teenager has herself learned a valuable lesson to count her blessings . |
| 16 | The ‘ new approach ’ Community legislation limits itself to setting the essential or basic standards and the detailed specifications that implement these standards are delegated to relevant European Standardisation bodies such as CEN ( European Committee for Standardisation ) or sectoral bodies as , for example , CENELEC ( European Committee for Electro-Techinal Standardisation ) for the building and electrical industry and ETSI ( European Telecommunications Standards Institute ) for telecommunications standards . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By making an order , the trial court denies itself the chance to observe the demeanour of the witness and especially his reaction to cross-examination . |
| 19 | The Board of Banking Supervision concerns itself with three issues : |
| 20 | The silk moth caterpillar surrounds itself with a fuzzy bundle of threads , the moon moth constructs a cocoon with a silvery metallic sheen , the ermine moth builds an elegant casket of lacy net . |
| 21 | This is also implied by VI Æthelred itself , where the opening chapter announces itself as " the first ordinance of the bishops " , but the introduction used thereafter is " and the decision of the witan is " . |
| 22 | The Funeral March 's central trio becomes a true benediction , with a good deal less de- synchronization than one might have expected , and in his light-fingered whirl through the phantom finale Cortot allows himself just one furious gust before the final explosion . |
| 23 | Once , his helicopter returned so late to Elstree Airport that the pilot had to turn off the runway landing lights himself . |
| 24 | More than most things , lung area lends itself to gradual , step-by-step change , all the way from 0 square yards up to 70 square yards . |
| 25 | Thus , the chronic 20 cigarette a day smoker exposes himself to regular falls in gastric secretion associated with each cigarette smoked . |
| 26 | Tree doctor saves himself |
| 27 | Sometimes the education officer finds himself standing between rival colleges which are each vying for a larger share of the diminishing student market . |
| 28 | As a result of these anti-avoidance provisions , the foreign business carve-out is excluded , and the general COB Rules apply in relation to the customer concerned , where : ( 1 ) A UK office executes a transaction with or for a UK private customer on the instructions of a non-UK office ; or ( 2 ) A UK office gives investment advice in relation to any transaction to a non-UK office , which the non-UK office passes on to ( or uses for the benefit of ) a UK private customer if ( in either case ) : ( a ) the UK office itself transmitted the order to a non-UK office of the firm ( even if a different one from that instructing it ) ; ( b ) the UK office has itself advised the customer in relation to the transaction concerned ( and the customer has then directly or indirectly given the order to the non-UK office which deals through the UK office ) ; or ( c ) the UK office has advised the customer to deal through or seek advice from a non-UK office of the firm ( even if the relevant prescribed disclosure was made ) . |
| 29 | The sublime back section merges itself with the boisterous front and all is similar . |
| 30 | The Westerwolds grass establishes itself rapidly , but then dies down and is replaced by more aggressive invading species , |