Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb base] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight , The Shamen prove themselves capable of moving even the most rigid of muscles . |
| 2 | Tonight , The Shamen prove themselves capable of moving even the most rigid of muscles . |
| 3 | It was not until the 1960s that the courts rid themselves of the most debilitating restraints of formalism and assumed a more active supervisory role . |
| 4 | Here the courts see themselves as charged with evaluating such concepts further and , when necessary , imposing their own views . |
| 5 | The courts have themselves shown a willingness recently to subject the decisions of the police to the general principles developed in other areas of the law . |
| 6 | Then the nuclei arrange themselves side by side and fuse into a single nucleus carrying the chromosomes of both sperm and ovum . |
| 7 | Even if the government backs legislation ( and even more so when it does not and the Houses find themselves confronted by a Private Member 's Bill ) no Bill will ever be passed which offends against the deeply held beliefs of Members , unless amended to accommodate them . |
| 8 | In effect the molecules assemble themselves ( Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol 105 , p 674 ) . |
| 9 | However , while the supermarkets first appeared to threaten traditional wine shops , the merchants have themselves adapted and thrived . |
| 10 | For example , training emphasises that it is essential to ‘ help the clients help themselves ’ . |
| 11 | In Laing 's view , getting to the top in management by climbing up through the ranks is fifty per cent luck , but when the opportunities present themselves , they have to be grasped , and that often requires courage . |
| 12 | But nevertheless , at that stage in your career , the tendency is to be in so much of a hurry , that if the opportunities present themselves , it all seems quite logical in a way . |
| 13 | The difference is that the poststructuralists put themselves forth as heterodox prophets and turn out to be priests of convention . |
| 14 | A couple of new songs had a few ideas ‘ borrowed ’ from The Mission and New Model Army and could give a few clues as to which market Echo & The Bunnymen see themselves operating in during their climb back up the ladder to fame and fortune . |
| 15 | I might have said … ‘ pains in the legs sort yourself out sort of thing . ’ |
| 16 | Given that two of the major components in the motor of the present technological progress are profit maximisation and the consolidation of power ( based on the notion of an ever-increasing rate of production and consumption ) it is not surprising that the contradictions manifest themselves so obviously on all sides . |
| 17 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 18 | Coming up to him offering him sour wine and saying if you 're the King of the Jews save yourself . |
| 19 | In Fig. 22.6 , the large polygonal features are permanent structures ; that is to say , once the flow has been established the polygonal pattern remains unchanging so long as the Rayleigh number is maintained constant , although the details of just where the polygons locate themselves will be different each time the experiment is performed . |
| 20 | There is a delay of D6+4 Turns ( 5–10 minutes ) before the effects make themselves felt . |
| 21 | Granted that words have a certain elasticity of meaning , the general rule remains that the judges regard themselves as bound by the words of a statute when these words clearly govern the situation before the court . |
| 22 | Conditions laid down by Haussmann along the lines of those set out by the Monopoly Commission , that the companies divest themselves of certain divisions which , if merged , would be against German interests in the arms industry , were eventually agreed to by both MBB and Daimler . |
| 23 | The trouble is that , unlike other camp icons such as Madonna , the mega-models take themselves very seriously , with the possible exception of Cindy Crawford . |
| 24 | He also stressed that NATO must " seek out areas of complementarity with the other bodies within which the allies find themselves together in Europe " , notably the European Communities ( EC ) and the CSCE , to which he accorded particular importance as " the only place where all European countries can meet " . |
| 25 | There are also several varieties that are viviparous — where the plants reproduce themselves by producing young plants vegetatively between the leaf sinus . |
| 26 | No free oxygen is present so a different set of reactions takes place ; the atoms rearrange themselves , seeking the most thermodynamically stable combinations . |
| 27 | But in some ways the universities have themselves been subject to a countervailing ‘ vocational drift ’ in the 1980s , as a result of both government pressure and student demand . |
| 28 | Enough of the worms find themselves on the tight-fitting lid so that when I open the bucket I merely have to lower the lid into my aquarium to feed the fish . |
| 29 | Eventually , though , it will catch up with you in the form of self-loathing , as the pounds pile themselves on and you possibly curb your social life , and , moreover , endanger your health . |
| 30 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |