Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pn reflx] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is true that no man knows what may befall him , nor how he may make himself safe against all future evils , is it not therefore the wisest course to make no provision , but to live in the present experience only ? |
| 2 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |
| 3 | You must think yourselves lucky to be able to go to Thrush Green as often as you do . ’ |
| 4 | Suggest that participants should make themselves familiar with the main issues beforehand — perhaps by reading this booklet or other books on the list on pp. 23–4 — so that the discussion will be based on adequate information . |
| 5 | Students should make themselves familiar with Traffic Regulations which are widely displayed throughout the University . |
| 6 | Those who enter a course leading to the qualifications awarded by a Professional Association ( such as Membership , Associateship or Fellowship ) should make themselves familiar with the regulations of that body , as it is their personal responsibility to comply with them . |
| 7 | All Certified Weighers should make themselves familiar with Section 20 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 , which is attached . |
| 8 | A CONTROVERSIAL proposal that unemployed young people between 16 and 21 should make themselves available for full-time community service is to be discussed by the Labour Party . |
| 9 | It was Marriott who suggested that Stirling should make himself scarce for a while and recommended him to Brigadier Denys Reid . |
| 10 | An appropriately experienced consultation partner who is a valuations specialist and is not otherwise associated with the client 's ( or the subject entity 's , if different ) affairs should be appointed , and thereafter , should make himself available for consultation as required during the engagement . |
| 11 | ‘ Then you must make yourselves invisible , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Once the media are interested , you and your fellow campaigners must make yourselves available for interviews and photographs . |
| 13 | All of these meetings required careful preparation and I was relieved when my election team agreed with my general tactics , although they added that I must make myself available for private talks with any colleague who asked to see me . |
| 14 | ‘ He went to Prague this morning , ’ Lubor obliged nicely , and then added , ‘ He particularly asked that , should you have any problems or require assistance in any way , I must make myself available to you . ’ |
| 15 | ( 2 ) Many courts have standard forms of orders for directions with which practitioners must make themselves familiar ( See references to the necessity for solicitors to obey codes in the Introduction . ) |
| 16 | He would be free to pursue his own work , but must make himself available to students of composition . |
| 17 | The waster , played by Steve Punt , is a nineties version of Neil the hippie — less ideological , but more funny : ‘ You should think yourself lucky if you get invited to parties . |
| 18 | Fox and North faced a threat which Messrs Kinnock and Ashdown , or Major and Ashdown , should think themselves fortunate they need not worry about this week . |
| 19 | At my age , I should think myself lucky I have to pay Income Tax , I do n't think I 'm like it , no , no it 's , no it 's true . |
| 20 | Why , I only restrained myself because she 's a female , she should think herself lucky . |
| 21 | Without any doubt ZIMBABWE captain Andy Ferreira 's men must count themselves unlucky to have missed the semi-finals , and with it the chance of appearing in the World Cup tournament in Scotland . |
| 22 | We must count ourselves lucky , then , that our own Earth is big enough to retain an atmosphere , and therefore to retain liquid surface water . |
| 23 | That man should consider himself lucky that Marvin had n't actually been in the mood for a brawl . |
| 24 | She tried to shut it all out of her mind , and remember that she should consider herself lucky , for Avenue Foch would be a thousand times worse . |
| 25 | In some ways we should consider ourselves lucky if we get these types of responses to stress , because for others , unfortunately , there are other responses to stress that may also occur , such as ulcers and heart disease , from which we may get less warning . |
| 26 | ‘ Vinny should count himself very , very lucky to have made a lot of money out of football without having any ability . |
| 27 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 28 | Vicky should count herself lucky . |
| 29 | Such an appeal was not to be resisted , but first I had to tell Meehan that if I did look into his case , I must feel myself free to come to whatever conclusions my investigations led me , ‘ whether in your favour or not ’ . |
| 30 | For the rest of the time — the quieter moments in its life — it must render itself inconspicuous . |