Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pn reflx] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an undergraduate myself in the late sixties , I met two famous pioneer sisters , the Misses Deneke . |
| 2 | I run to the bedroom , clutch the lump of hash from the bookshelf , and lock myself in the bathroom , turning the taps on . |
| 3 | Good interpreters can aid communication but professionals must be trained to use interpreters properly or , ideally , should have fluency themselves in an individual 's native language . |
| 4 | He talked on , feeling a great relief , thinking , it 's not surprising Catholics are able to preserve their sanity ; they can unburden themselves in the confessional . |
| 5 | Carter had been no mean personal campaigner himself in the past , but by 1980 his situation had changed fundamentally . |
| 6 | Such an individual could choose to ignore conventional time-cues and so cocoon himself in an artificial world in which meals and artificial lighting are adjusted to accord with the dictates of his body clock — like the subject in a cave ( in chapter 2 ) and the opposite of what happens normally , when our life-style adjusts our body clock . |
| 7 | James Lee Byars , who is no slouch himself in the mystical department , deploys white marble balls at Mary Boone ( until the 25th ) . |
| 8 | Sloan no slouch himself in the cantankerous department was not of much help . |
| 9 | which is useful for taking the heat off the window itself in the Summer . |
| 10 | Since then the name has become associated with the sport itself in the form of windsurfing . |
| 11 | Who then , was to determine whether or not the water came from faults and fissures in the rock , or from the vein itself in the usual manner ? |
| 12 | However , the sudden intervention of the princess herself in the speculation about her marriage raised more questions than it answered . |
| 13 | Not being an expert herself in the art of model construction , the kids went too — and we 'll get their verdict on the home of Lego tomorrow . |
| 14 | Hector said they both knew you were going to break the truce yourself in the spring anyway . |
| 15 | ‘ The tests were poor discriminators and , in terms of checking on their progress and diagnosing their weaknesses , we could do a far better job ourselves in a fraction of the time , ’ he declared |
| 16 | Acheson himself in the early months of 1950 set out to imbue the British and other members of Nato with a greater sense of urgency . |
| 17 | Firstly , there is the problem of the protestant population itself in the North . |
| 18 | Apart from the impetus that new railways gave to British industrial strength , railway-building abroad was the means for an expansion of British capital overseas , through loans to railway companies and states , and the export of British capitalism itself in the establishment of British enterprises and railway companies abroad . |
| 19 | Ironically , the society is having to fight against the forces of nature itself in the bid to stop the reedbed being swallowed by fast-encroaching willows and scrub which would destroy much of the area 's significance . |
| 20 | Er I take the the er dynamo itself in the powerhouse was erm |
| 21 | Finally , picture yourself in the future beyond your Dream . |
| 22 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |
| 23 | He was their only guest and of course her father had given him the ‘ big room ’ — used by the landlord himself in the winter . |
| 24 | So , I 'll be alright to go to the hairdresser myself in the morning . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , I know ’ said St. David ‘ I played outside-half myself in the Heavens team . ’ |
| 26 | Gilbey , who has been her greatest emotional support since the collapse of her marriage to Prince Charles , broke the news himself in a telephone call to Kensington Palace . |
| 27 | He saw his would-be rescuer launch himself in a final dive … |
| 28 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 29 | Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved . |
| 30 | Charles and his brother James also attacked the charter itself in the courts . |