Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The successful development of negotiating skills has proved itself as one of the most cost-effective investments in company profitability . |
| 2 | Picketing in various forms has shown itself to be one of the most effective forms of industrial action . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , no one can buy the paper for hard currency , not even the mighty Ministry of Defence , because the only bank for foreign trade operations has declared itself almost bankrupt , and refuses to return hard currency to its owners . |
| 4 | The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities has declared itself a potential purchaser but is apparently negotiating on the asking price which is said to be $2 million . |
| 5 | Who just sighed and said that penguins had driven themselves blind , even mad , by watching that dangerous nonsense up there . |
| 6 | Whereas the late nineteenth-century organizations had seen themselves as combating indiscipline , irreligion , immorality , and social neglect of their members , the Scout movement looked to encourage certain positive values necessary for national and imperial security . |
| 7 | Soviet and foreign relief organizations had installed themselves with efficiency and were giving out free food . |
| 8 | All three brothers had settled themselves in the area , Nathan 's being a pleasant semi-detached residence of three storeys . |
| 9 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 10 | I put the visor down before I got out on to Gresham Street and almost walked into the edge of a glass door , but by the time I got to the Kawasaki my eyes had adjusted themselves . |
| 11 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 12 | Harry went slowly and cautiously through the gully , feeling his way at every step until his eyes had accustomed themselves to the darkness , and could judge distances and distinguish the shapes of the weathered planes of rock that leaned over him . |
| 13 | Since battle had been effectively joined last spring , when Major first considered going to the country , the parties had bludgeoned themselves into mutual exhaustion before the final clash of arms . |
| 14 | By Christmas all three main opposition parties had dissolved themselves . |
| 15 | One of the littlest lads had heaved himself up onto the window-sill and was gazing out in rapture . |
| 16 | His revenue was slowly sinking and his subjects had shown themselves resistant to demands for aid . |
| 17 | In Western Europe , old nations had rebuilt themselves , economically and militarily , and were increasingly combining their resources . |
| 18 | Even so , many respondents were surprised at how quickly the different interests of units and districts had manifested themselves : |
| 19 | But it was even more clear that the Public Schools had adapted themselves rapidly and skilfully to the demands for a meritocracy as identified by Michael Young . |
| 20 | Also , encouragement is being given by the fuel industries to install new kitchens with combustion free , stream-lined equipment in a move towards the clinically clean kitchen which is environmentally safe and has energy efficiency in mind — microwave and electric conversion combinations have proved themselves successful in this respect . |
| 21 | Players , umpires and rival fans have found themselves being physically attacked by objects as varied as flashlight batteries and souvenir baseball bats ( Edwards and Rackages , 1977 ; Fimrite , 1976 ; Talamini , 1987 ) . |
| 22 | As regards its notoriety as a ‘ land of damnation and chains ’ , a domain of perpetual punishment and pain — this , too , is grimly rooted in the very real sufferings of generations of convicts , rebels , revolutionaries , common criminals and multitudes of often innocent men , women and children , who for nearly four centuries have dragged themselves along the ‘ road of chains ’ ( kandalnaya doroga ) leading beyond the Urals . |
| 23 | Fixing is by four bolts through a gold-plated neck plate and the Koreans have excelled themselves again here , because the fit into the body is very precise . |
| 24 | As the police in both countries in recent years have relied increasingly on notions of professionalism to defend themselves against political attack , so police organizations have asserted themselves more publicly to promote not only their own organization , but also particular policies regarding law and order which they deem to be necessary . |
| 25 | Although nearly all the industrialised nations have set themselves targets for stabilising or reducing carbon dioxide emissions , the US , by far the biggest emitter , has consistently refused . |
| 26 | Therefore , once the parties have committed themselves to an offer and acceptance , it is too late to introduce new terms . |
| 27 | In fact , barring these two statements by Mr Kinnock , the parties have confined themselves to offering me choices which I do not feel competent to make . |
| 28 | An aspect of the purported effects of the political system is the policy co-option argument — that the extreme right , at least in recent years , has been unsuccessful because of the ease with which some of its appeals ( or some attenuated version of them ) can be adopted by major parties , after the former parties have shown themselves unable to break into the political system . |
| 29 | Thus , whereas the Conservatives have tended to equate active citizenship with a sort of Samuel Smiles social self-help , SLD supporters have expressed themselves in terms of self-government . |
| 30 | Once again , following our 1–0 defeat against Chamden City Reserves , the more bewildered of our supporters have subjected myself and other club officials to hysterical abuse and spit . |