Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public administration and management in central government has stood up to these strains , but the weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the last 25 years . |
| 2 | The weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the past 25 years . " |
| 3 | Next morning dawns bright and clear ; the storm has blown itself out in the night . |
| 4 | Once an elite has established itself , it may well find itself being emulated or used as a reference group by ‘ lower ’ social classes . |
| 5 | And er once again the Hereford defence has proved itself somewhat leaky , five three . |
| 6 | As will gradually become evident , the AEC has proven itself to be an unambiguous success . |
| 7 | RECRUITING IN A RECESSION Taking on new staff is rarely a company priority in a recession , but The Freshman Consultancy has established itself in the recruitment business in spite of the current climate |
| 8 | Certainly not from Parliament , for Parliament has shown itself perfectly capable , where it wishes to do so , of enacting specific anti-avoidance provisions to deal with specific cases ; and indeed it did subsequently legislate to nullify the fiscal advantages of transactions of the type to which I have referred . |
| 9 | And of course has established itself as a leading player in this industry . |
| 10 | Almost every conjurer who has taken a parti pris in this field has found himself accused of possessing psychic powers . |
| 11 | The university has set itself the objective of becoming an outstanding research and teaching university . |
| 12 | It brought us to a stage of development when , with a student population of almost 5000 , the university has established itself as a viable , innovative , vibrant and mature institution . |
| 13 | The Legal Aid Board has said itself to be impressed with the contribution of law centres to the provision of legal services in the areas they serve . |
| 14 | The Home Office Drugs Branch has shown itself hopelessly ineffective at quickly and effectively using the Notifications Index to warn and inform local communities about extensive drug use . |
| 15 | In practice though , research within this framework has concerned itself with " patterns of linguistic behaviour " as made manifest , for example , through narrative or in interviews , rather than looking in detail at conversational encounters . |
| 16 | For more than ten years the membership of the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching has kept itself informed through newsletters and regular conferences such as the one on Teacher Training held at Lancashire Polytechnic in 1985 , and the one on Language Teaching Techniques held at Nottingham Language Centre in 1986 . |
| 17 | A stone age management opportunity has revealed itself to the Directors of AIB Bank plc in Britain . |
| 18 | Nor is this the only area in which the former chairman has left himself open to potential conflicts of interest . |
| 19 | GARY SPEED has set himself a double task — to resurrect the fortunes of club and country . |
| 20 | An application has been made to the Charity Commissioners for the Bradford Atea Project to be given registered charity status and the association has set itself a target of raising £20,000 during the next 12 months . |
| 21 | Since 1985 , the Association has promoted itself in the South but has encountered difficulty in establishing a countrywide structure due in even part to branches being thin on the ground in some areas and the difficulty in telling all assistant managers of the benefits and purpose of the Association . |
| 22 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 23 | It is true that history records frequent occasions when this has been forgotten and prejudice has shown itself in religious , racial and class distinctions . |
| 24 | LOSERS : The Financial Times , which was slow off the mark in exposing Labour 's tax plans and by declaring for Labour has shown itself to be as pink as its paper . |
| 25 | Labour has committed itself to a wide range of civil-liberties legislation and constitutional reform when it returns to government , to counter what its Deputy Leader , Mr Hattersley , has described as the vulnerability of traditional freedoms to the dual threat of ‘ legal restriction and a cynical partnership between Government and private enterprise ’ . |
| 26 | This problem can be overcome by negotiating a long-term arrangement once the agent has proved himself , or by inserting a gradual run-down clause into the agency agreement . |
| 27 | A FRENCHWOMAN has given herself the ultimate facelift in an attempt to create the perfect features . |
| 28 | In later years , say 1964 , 1974 , 1984 , the first vision of Nozières took on its perfection and primacy , as it is only after the mind has cleared itself of the flow of daily preoccupation , planning , expectation , that the moment of a death can be known for what it is , and one 's life mapped , prospectively and retrospectively , to that threshold . |
| 29 | It 's arguable that the industry has done itself more damage by its inflated claims than anything else , because they spared people like Rifkin into action . |
| 30 | Lacking only her native forest ( now probably half chewed away by acid rain ) , and the dorf ( whose last inhabitants ' bones still lie jumbled in a secret pit ) our Anya has found herself a little home from home . |