Example sentences of "[be] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew in her heart that he had told the truth , and it had been herself at fault for so lacking trust in his integrity . |
| 2 | In the last few years , when Select Committee activity has appeared to be itself under scrutiny , we have often tried to answer this question and found it very difficult . |
| 3 | Freud shares what can be seen as the main element in the sociological imagination , that is , to see what is regarded as commonplace action in a particular society , at particular points in time , as being itself in need of some explanation . |
| 4 | Northumbria quickly produced , in the monk Bede ( d.735 ) , one of the great scholars of the early Middle Ages , and by the time of his death English missionaries were themselves at work attempting to convert the continental Germans . |
| 5 | Many of today 's parents were themselves at school in the 1960s , the height of the ‘ horticultural ’ era of education . |
| 6 | The risk factors were the parenting provided by mothers who were themselves in care as children ( 23 case , 21 comparison ) , mother who were depressed when their children were 2 years old ( 48 case , 27 comparison ) and mothers whose children failed to grow in spite of the absence of any organic disorder ( 23 case and 23 comparison ) . |
| 7 | These notations , or are themselves of interest , of course , but their usefulness for present purposes is vitiated by two factors . |
| 8 | We had some very , very moving speeches yesterday , as we had had at previous meetings , which made it quite clear that a few pounds were vital and crucial to people 's lives , so we thought it was a a gesture that was worth making , and I have to say that probably our group also includes people on , as members , as Councillors , who are themselves on income support , so it was a move which was n't without it 's personal difficulties for us either . |
| 9 | The underlying principle of such models is that companies that have a financial profile similar to previous failures are themselves at risk . |
| 10 | Girls who become pregnant by their 16th birthday are likely to have parents who are divorced , separated , alcoholic , or in gaol , or to have been themselves in care or in a special school . |
| 11 | Indeed , the low level of northern attainders after the Yorkist victory of 1471 is itself in part testimony to the successful take-over of the Neville connection by Gloucester . |
| 12 | Indeed , the low level of northern attainders after the Yorkist victory of 1471 is itself in part testimony to the successful take-over of the Neville connection by Gloucester . |
| 13 | ‘ But we have n't had enough rain to replenish the water table which is itself in drought , ’ pointed out Susan . |
| 14 | And thirdly , everything used is itself in tune with the recycling technology being developed . |
| 15 | Such questions can not be settled by resort to competing formulations of some supposed pre-existing legal rule : it is the scope and content of that rule which is itself in issue . |
| 16 | This tendency is itself in need of sociological analysis , since it is in some respects clearly related to the social character of certain modem institutions , most obviously in advertising and market research but also in audience research and in political opinion polling . |
| 17 | The point is that the idea of criteria is itself in need of elucidation , and an attempt to provide such an elucidation presupposes a basic understanding of the concept whose explanation is being sought . |
| 18 | I think one 's yourself as Chairman of Planning . |
| 19 | I could conclude only that he was finding the job too big for him , and was himself under stress , which he relieved by persecuting a subordinate who was particularly vulnerable . |
| 20 | So th they , yo yo you could n't see a situation where the person who er was previously in disgrace , was no longer in disgrace , and the one , the the the brother , then showing je jealousy , was himself in disgrace . |
| 21 | The last straw for the soldiers was not so much their own suffering as the perception that the home and hearth which , ostensibly , they were fighting to defend , was itself under threat : ‘ You would think they would come to some terms when they see the country in that state . ’ |
| 22 | Karadjordje 's dictatorial tendencies came into conflict with the older tradition of peasant democracy , which was itself in conflict with the patriarchal structure of Serbian village life . |
| 23 | The term ‘ regionalism ’ was itself in vogue in a number of related disciplines , particularly geography and sociology . |
| 24 | In response the government , eager to distance itself from the ruling FLN , which was itself in disarray [ see pp. 37628 ; 37795-96 ] , and secure its own survival , promised that free and open parliamentary elections would be held in the first half of 1991 . |
| 25 | The Minoan religion was itself in transition , and we can see the humanoid deities as more evolved than the daemons , who were older nature-spirits . |