Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [vb base] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is worth noting that though the problems this produces for validation of theory are still not resolved in the social sciences , some researchers comfort themselves with the argument that different theories may agree at least on common working definitions , while a significant body of methodological writers has learnt to love the thorny creature by arguing ( after Max Weber ) that the theory- or value-component is a crucial positive factor in social-science explanation . |
| 2 | Some animals protect themselves against being eaten by containing poisonous or sickening substances . |
| 3 | Despite great efforts to ‘ bottle up ’ sources of funds within regional boundaries , some banks find themselves with excess liquidity which they are not allowed to use for expanding credits to local enterprises , and this has led to some inter-regional flows of bank funds ( and to the uncontrolled expansion of bank lending to firms such as Agrokomerc ) . |
| 4 | However self-critical you may be — and some executives set themselves standards of achievement which are unrealistically high , rather than too low — there is usually much to be gained from learning the views of others about your capabilities . |
| 5 | Some theories concern themselves more with the motives of one than the other — seldom is the whole chain of actions discussed . |
| 6 | But some anurans defend themselves in a more active way . |
| 7 | Our society has tended to place women in a subservient relationship to men and some women find themselves drawn towards dominant or dependent partners and thus fail to assert their own needs as individuals . |
| 8 | Some women feel themselves driven out of the house , unable to tolerate sharing space with a partner so palpably ill-at-ease with her tears . |
| 9 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 10 | But some philosophers get themselves tied in knots because they implicitly assume that the cat can have only one history . |
| 11 | Prescriptions presuppose interpretations , but actions on the basis of such prescriptions become themselves the subject of interpretation . |
| 12 | Such studies do themselves , however , suffer from limitations . |
| 13 | However , the charge is often returned by environmentalists who note how much farmers pride themselves on being ‘ stewards ’ of the English countryside for the benefit of future generations and for the nation at large , but then deny the right of anyone else to have a say in how it should be maintained for them . |
| 14 | But such criticisms become increasingly unconvincing if one observes the enthusiasm with which such students throw them-selves into new fields , and make themselves experts , within a short time , in subjects they may never have studied before . |
| 15 | Apart from the formal accomplishments of law , accountancy and financial management , these skills restrict themselves to formalized consumer analysis , market survey technique , matrixes and learning curves . |
| 16 | You only have to read what women in emerging feminist groups and movements are writing , to see that these patterns repeat themselves time and again . |
| 17 | Companies are keen to adopt the ‘ open ’ moniker simply for that purpose : how many suppliers these days describe themselves as open systems companies , when just a few years ago they would probably have sneered at the term . |
| 18 | Members of the jury whilst you 're listening to these officers ask yourself a number of questions as they 're going along . |
| 19 | Some members of these families have themselves experienced school failure and rejection as children . |
| 20 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
| 21 | The preceding section has suggested some ways in which these dimensions align themselves in Japan . |
| 22 | These divisions establish themselves in the first five years or so of our lives . |
| 23 | In response to the electric field in which these charges find themselves , the positive and negative charges will slightly separate . |
| 24 | This is how these men make themselves into all those freak things where muscles bulge all over the place , they look as if they 're about to , I 'm not quite sure , they always remind of erm those balloons , you know , that pop off beach balls , they look a bit like that . |
| 25 | These men rate themselves fitter than those who came to sex late and they 're less likely to consider themselves overweight . |
| 26 | These men reconcile themselves to circumstance , make their own compromises with destiny until happier times . |
| 27 | Some carvers prefer the thicker bevels for mallet work , but as these tools lend themselves more to paring and slicing , the finer edges appear imperative . |
| 28 | Be assured however that if I can in any manner contribute to the success of your efforts , either by the proposal of questions for discussion , or subjects for Papers or giving my opinions on any part of the Veterinary Art which you may think proper to investigate I shall at all times feel myself honored by the request , & I am persuaded that Mr Sewell will be most happy to ( ? add ) his exertions in any way congenial to your wishes . |
| 29 | ‘ All those people are out there struggling to cope , and in many cases have themselves become abusers — they know no better , ’ she said . |
| 30 | That awful thing that so many groups get themselves involved in , when they 're on a plane and they do a gig and they do n't even know what city they 're in , he 'd manage to avoid . |