Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So each month they 've got ta put , each branch have got ta put on plus nine between now and December and that should translate itself if the theory works erm to the figures that we want . |
| 2 | This may manifest itself in various ways . |
| 3 | This may manifest itself as verbal fireworks , overt pushiness or in one or other going for the ‘ wise elder statesman ’ role implying that she/he is the real source of any decision . |
| 4 | This may show itself by an improvement in the child 's behaviour or in the resolution of some lingering problem , such as the slight cough or persistently runny nose . |
| 5 | This may show itself in attempts to ‘ beat the system ’ . |
| 6 | Interest is now focused on how this might manifest itself in the government 's promised rethink on constitutional reform . |
| 7 | This could manifest itself in two ways . |
| 8 | The battle now shifted to parliament , where the second reading was carried by a huge majority on 22 May ; many Unionists spoke against the Bill , but few could bring themselves to oppose it in principle , and so Sanders could mobilize only forty MPs to go with him into the No lobby . |
| 9 | Griffin gives many further examples : that pets and other tame creatures come when they are called by their names ( this would commend itself to Hearne ) , and that numerous species of birds , mammals , and even some fish and insects , seem to recognise individual members of their own species . |
| 10 | Most begin by asserting their commitment to democracy , yet few would commit themselves completely to the notion that if the people want to wallow in sin , they should be permitted to do so . |
| 11 | Particularly this will show itself in the gift of availability to another , a conducive meeting-place , the courtesy of taking the phone off the hook , keeping confidences and having grace to forget as well as remember things people tell us . |
| 12 | First , there will be resistance to external influence , and this will manifest itself as consensus norms within the dialect that affirm solidary behaviour . |
| 13 | Over time , the executives will come to realise that there is an excess demand for their product : this will reveal itself in the form of orders which can not be met . |
| 14 | For obvious reasons I 'm not telling exactly where , but anyone seeing this can award themselves ten Brownie points ! |
| 15 | All this can manifest itself in the simple relief of getting back to civilization , supermarket queues and all . |
| 16 | It 's scientifically proven that foods can make certain susceptible children very ill , and this can manifest itself in various ways , but one of the most common ways is that children behave badly ; they become aggressive and disturbed . |
| 17 | That would be true Christian charity of a kind that very few can bring themselves to practise . |
| 18 | Well you pa yeah you certainly pay nine hundred pound a year out anyway , damage to the toilet seat and so you know , that 'll pay itself back in a year and , you know . |
| 19 | Thus it is meaningless to talk of bootstrap activities by which we or they who are less fortunate can lift themselves up . |
| 20 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 21 | A CONTROVERSIAL proposal that unemployed young people between 16 and 21 should make themselves available for full-time community service is to be discussed by the Labour Party . |
| 22 | These could manifest themselves either during active cow 's milk allergy or later , when clinical tolerance to cow 's milk has been acquired . |
| 23 | Oxfam has launched its new autumn collection of clothes with the boast that the fashion-conscious can dress themselves for just twenty five pounds ! |
| 24 | J K Galbraith calls this the culture of content , in which the comfortable can kid themselves that they owe nothing of their comfort to the state , to politics , or the exploitation of others . |
| 25 | Under this method non-recourse trade bills guaranteed by the importer 's bank are discounted at the exporter 's bank ; the latter may commit itself to purchase the bills before the export contract is signed . |
| 26 | Where lay the basis for the belief that there was a corporate life , a level of interchange over academic matters in which all could feel themselves to be involved ? |
| 27 | Those that stand still could find themselves right in the discounters ' sights . |
| 28 | There may be an allusion to it in 11.34 " now when they shall stumble , they shall be helped with a little help , but many shall join themselves unto them with blandishments " . |
| 29 | The latter will reveal themselves to the area supervisor in sample results or — a more serious matter — in recurring complaints from the public or other water users about particular pollutions . |
| 30 | Many will restrict themselves to such magazines and periodicals in which their chosen authors made significant appearances . |