Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what stands stark and clear , above all speculation , arguments , discussions and justifications , is the fact that anything which allows itself to be used to sustain such atrocious misery can not possibly be anything but a travesty of a ‘ religion ’ within the meaning of that word that all right-minded and honourable people intensely desire . |
| 2 | By its very nature the trial is a passive form of review which confines itself to an examination of the finished product of the police investigation . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 4 | The point is that black people are not only at a disadvantage in the job market on account of their colour , they also perceive sharply that this is so and , despite Johnson 's tongue-in-cheek addendum , the consciousness of belonging to a group which feels itself to be at a disadvantage is clear enough . |
| 5 | There is an undeniable gulf of philosophy between political theatre which dedicates itself to featuring everyday concerns such as poll tax or unemployment , and one whose politics are expressed more elliptically through the histories of Thebes 2,000 years ago . |
| 6 | Without the possibility , then , of altering one 's perceptual inputs at will it is difficult to see how the information provided by the input systems could ever be centered upon a self , a self that is not just a repository of information , but something which addresses itself to reality and for whom reality is centred upon itself . |
| 7 | But I am worried at the concept of a course of study , such as a National Curriculum , which restricts itself to only the traditional well-trodden roads . |
| 8 | Once your icon movie 's in the can , you have to load Icon Hear-It Lite , which fastens itself to Program Manager 's menu bar . |
| 9 | For freedom is maintained by a self-possession which extends itself to anything that threatens its identity . |
| 10 | A gay text is one which lends itself to the hypothesis of a gay reading regardless of where the author 's genitals were wont to keep house . |
| 11 | Much of the debate on the ‘ internal market ’ appears to relate to elective surgery , which lends itself to ‘ packages ’ of care . |
| 12 | But , as used generally , a plate is a whole page illustration , coloured or otherwise , printed separately from the text and usually on a different type of paper which lends itself to glossy reproduction . |
| 13 | Its troopers wear black and white , a combination which lends itself to bold parti-coloured divisions , broad stripes , checks and diamonds . |
| 14 | What seemed to me most significant about the period I chose to study was that this was the moment of transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , a transition which could best be observed and studied in drawing , which lends itself to greater experimentation . |
| 15 | Above : John and Veronica relax in the Chinese-green sitting room , which lends itself to a Christmas colour scheme of red and green Left : Tree lights and softly lit rooms give a festive glow to the Saunders ' Victorian terraced house in Heaton Moor , near Manchester |
| 16 | While the contextual method is well-suited to the exploration of the infinite subtlety and particularity of word-meanings , it is nonetheless more particularly the aim of this book to seek out and highlight anything which lends itself to generalisation , even of a limited sort , any tendency towards structure , system and recurrence , in the domain of word-meaning . |
| 17 | Geometry is not a subject which lends itself to such treatment . |
| 18 | Wallpapering your PC Next in our flying tour of these low cost packages comes Wallpaper Art Gallery for Windows , ( WAGWIN ) a title which ostensibly is single use , but which lends itself to one or two other purposes as well . |
| 19 | Much of the debate on the ‘ Internal Market ’ appears to relate to elective surgery , which lends itself to ‘ packages ’ of care . |
| 20 | But the regional representatives will try to convince Mr Lang that Highland is a unique area , with a strong community identity which lends itself to region-wide treatment . |
| 21 | It is simply what presents itself to Moose as the truth when he reflects as carefully as he can , and what he therefore expects to present itself likewise to others . |
| 22 | For Moore this is , in the case of propositions about what is intrinsically good or bad , a matter of applying the method of isolation , guided by respect for the principle of organic unities , and discovering what suggests itself to intuition , while for judgements of intrinsic good and bad . |