Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now clearly there are , you know , methodological issues here , who replied on the questionnaire and so on , but there are clearly a very large number of replies , a very large number of students up in the , you know , several hundreds , who perceive themselves to be being sexually harassed . |
| 2 | He went on to attack scientists on both sides of the lead debate ‘ who ally themselves to political campaigns … |
| 3 | The society 's charitable project soon got round the underworld , and in January 1773 they had a card hung in Westminster Jail stating that their charity was likely to be imposed upon ‘ by artful and designing villains who cause themselves to be arrested and imprisoned a day before the Society makes a distribution and thus come in for relief designed for the Poor distressed debtors imprisoned for a long time . ‘ |
| 4 | The Masai , wrote the District Commissioner of Narok in 1955 , reciprocate the friendship of ‘ all races who show themselves to be worthy , in Masai eyes , of this friendship ’ . |
| 5 | Here we have a gang of unemployed white boys who imagine themselves to be some kind of local ruling class , and who feel outraged that this omnipotent position is being usurped by groups of black youth who are even more disadvantaged than they are . |
| 6 | And there is a group of policemen , empowered by the State with all the prerogatives of coercion , who imagine themselves to be a beleaguered and oppressed minority victimized by an all-powerful conspiracy between the white liberal establishment and the black community . |
| 7 | The first essential of intensive fieldwork is that the fieldworker should be able to recognize everyone in his vicinity , not just as a set of individuals but as a set of individuals holding named titles to office who consider themselves to be related to one another in a particular way . |
| 8 | I fear the Tory tabloids have made it difficult for those of us anti-Leftists who consider ourselves to be of a more reflective disposition . |
| 9 | On average , the people who are most likely to opt for health insurance are those who know themselves to be relatively unhealthy . |
| 10 | Increasingly in the late 1980s search consultants who present themselves to clients are being asked about their background , their particular specialisation and what they have to contribute . |
| 11 | This is particularly well illustrated in the case of old men who devote themselves to providing near total care for ailing wives , many having gone through marriage with little domestic involvement . |
| 12 | The importance of these spiritual disciplines is also recognized in Islam , where from earliest times there has been a certain class of men known as ‘ The Weepers ’ , who devote themselves to ascetic practices . |
| 13 | It is the learning process itself which is capable of bringing power to those who feel themselves to be powerless , and galvanising them for action on their own terms . |
| 14 | But , like the work of one of its ancestors , Rousseau , it strikes a chord which reverberates widely among those who feel themselves to be increasingly powerless , and resent it . |
| 15 | It has been said in defence of such publications that those who allow themselves to be depicted indecently are thereby ‘ waiving their own privacy rather than impeding or intruding upon that of others ’ . |
| 16 | The Press is also blamed for undue influence on selection ( though surely this is the fault of those who allow themselves to be influenced ? ) . |
| 17 | Sportsmen who believe themselves to be blessed with natural advantages , after being told so by others , become depressed by the lack of success of the magnitude they had come to expect after being fed the natural ability line . |
| 18 | It was such an idea of modularity that Minsky intended in the quoted passage above , and he has suggested at various times that an organism would be more efficient , in terms of its ability to survive , if it had , as a separate module , a model of itself , which might of course be totally false as to the facts of the self 's reality : alcoholics who believe themselves to be merely social drinkers probably survive less well than those who believe themselves to be alcoholics . |
| 19 | It was such an idea of modularity that Minsky intended in the quoted passage above , and he has suggested at various times that an organism would be more efficient , in terms of its ability to survive , if it had , as a separate module , a model of itself , which might of course be totally false as to the facts of the self 's reality : alcoholics who believe themselves to be merely social drinkers probably survive less well than those who believe themselves to be alcoholics . |
| 20 | But then , he reminded himself , so do those who believe themselves to be Napoleon , or Alexander , or God . |
| 21 | In his spare time , Geoff is an active life member of the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust , who dedicate themselves to preserving museum pieces of the rich output of Rolls-Royce and associated companies over the years . |
| 22 | They are concerned that councillors who keep themselves to themselves are easy prey for the IRA . |
| 23 | ‘ The republican terrorists will hit the likes of me or other party members who keep themselves to themselves and do their council work without much public glorification . |