Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the gritty Hugh is away opening for his country , then no doubt there is a stronger case for testing out the leadership qualities of Maynard , who has himself been the subject of some speculation concerning the furniture vans . |
| 2 | In fact the relationship between gender , application rate and admission probability has itself been the subject of an evaluation study ( 1985 ; see Table 6.2 ) . |
| 3 | Plato argued that to know yourself was the very essence of knowledge . |
| 4 | Not self-pity but exertion was what they told themselves was the first requirement , applying their skills to return to normal , to restore the status quo . |
| 5 | The only things she 'd bought herself were the bed and bed-linen . |
| 6 | Other matters to which the secretary-general addressed himself were the plight of prisoners of war , a field in which the International Red Cross was also active , and the use of chemical weapons . |
| 7 | Koops himself was the principal shareholder in the venture and on the strength of this offered to satisfy his creditors . |
| 8 | Gross has happily classified some 3,000 under various headings : Self-Love ( ’ To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance ’ — Oscar Wilde ) ; Love , Jealousy , Libido ( ’ No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes ’ — Michael Frayn ) ; Secrets ( ’ There is something about a cupboard that makes a skeleton terribly restless ’ — anon ) and Criticism ( ’ In some cases taking up the trade of critic is only an embittered form of renunciation ’ — Albert Guinon ) . |
| 9 | Whether it 's fish in Southern India or tripe in Northern England , the need to place ourselves is the same . |
| 10 | The assumption is that each tale makes manifest a greater or smaller part of an ‘ abstract structure ’ and the task Todorov sets himself is the delineation of that abstract structure . |
| 11 | But a picture of the mind as consisting of atomic mental states causally interacting is not a million miles from the Humean view — a view of which Hume himself was the most insightful critic . |
| 12 | One amphibian which might not be too concerned about showing itself is the Fire or European Salamander . |
| 13 | It 's considered disgusting to use Lilets , because of the idea that the female body itself is disgusting , and that touching yourself is the equivalent of masturbation . |
| 14 | What we are actually going to do today is to look using this data , is to look at structural stability , right , we 're going to ask ourselves are the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample , are they constant over time . |
| 15 | The Archaeology of Knowledge thus analyses the shift in historiography of which Foucault himself is the most powerful contemporary representative . |
| 16 | If the supplier fails to make the identification and also fails to identify the person who supplied the product to him , the supplier is liable as if he had himself been the producer . |
| 17 | Notice had been given to the defendant , as if he had himself been the owner of the houses , calling on him to pay the proportion chargeable in respect of them . |
| 18 | For example , Parsons explicitly says that , that the drives of the id are socially moulded in the sense that , the forms in which they express themselves are the result of socialization . |
| 19 | Thus , the ‘ humanitarianism ’ that informs his programme is also derived from selfish , rational motives ; it stems from the fact that , since we can imagine ourselves breaking the contract , we can also imagine ourselves being the objects of punishment . |
| 20 | The problem Marx set himself was the same as that which other social scientists tried to confront : the nature and mechanics of the transition from a pre-capitalist to a capitalist society and its specific modes of operation and tendencies of future development . |
| 21 | As a result , Dave Phillips , Stan Stanners and Cheese are off Foundation , and Todd Swank himself is the only vert skater left : ultimately nine or so people [ who rode vert ] got chucked off . |