Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This acquisition of competence can be seen as one way the worker defends himself against the control exercised over him by management . |
| 2 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 3 | We must put all our energies into the preparation for Belle Ile while Schellenberg busies himself with the Steiner affair . ’ |
| 4 | He snaps and frets and worries himself into a frenzy . |
| 5 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |
| 6 | Like Pynchon , he has admitted an influence from Kerouac and the Beats , and , in his 1973 article ‘ The New Tradition ’ , Sukenick places himself within a late phase of the modernists ' ‘ Revolution of the Word ’ where verbal and structural experimentation were aimed at coping with the enigmatic nature of the world ( Federman 1975 : 42 ) . |
| 7 | The male places himself behind the female and pecks at her cloaca . |
| 8 | It was painful , beautiful and obscure , a not uncommon state of affairs when the creator also directs , gives a running commentary on the action and writes himself into the story at the end . |
| 9 | In terms of laws governing dress , the nude bather on a public beach , the ‘ streaker ’ at a sporting event and the ‘ flasher ’ who exposes himself to an unsuspecting individual are subject to official punishments of varying severity . |
| 10 | he holds himself on the sofa |
| 11 | As in woman-centred feminism generally , woman-centred psychology often defends itself as an effective , rather than a theoretically rigorous , means of resistance , and makes theory a utilitarian adjunct to this aim . |
| 12 | The best criticism is that which is both amusing and poetic ; not a cold , mathematical criticism which , on the pretext of explaining everything , has neither love nor hate , and voluntarily strips itself of every shred of temperament . |
| 13 | This dominance exhibits itself in the ability of corporations to choose effectively which topics of policy they will shepherd into the arena of public debate , and which they will keep within the confines of private discussions . |
| 14 | At one level , this exhibits itself in the place that mathematics and science have come to occupy , mainly in virtue of their underpinning of technology in all its forms , including information technology and computerization . |
| 15 | For Lacan notes how it is only when the infant encounters itself in a ‘ mirroring ’ image that a form is set up for the face and body ; the mirror provides a perceptual gestalt ‘ ideal ’ form , which does not reflect a reality since it differs from the subject 's fragmentary experience . |
| 16 | What has bitten ‘ us ’ , the transpersonal Gadarene motif of The Possessed , manifests itself through the dotty plan for a dinner just as eloquently as through the murder in the park . |
| 17 | The explanation seems to be that consecutive measurements have been found to be very consistent , whatever variation exists manifests itself over a longer period corresponding to several averaged measurements . |
| 18 | It is a problem which seems curiously common to left-arm spinners , and manifests itself with the bowler either failing to release the ball , or propelling it vertically into the air . |
| 19 | Pearson ( 1983 ) further showed that the identification of these groups as ‘ the dangerous classes ’ manifests itself as a continuous historical phenomenon . |
| 20 | The latter symptom , common among individualists , manifests itself as a refusal to acknowledge the problem : while seeking to defend complex theoretical claims , individualists frequently take the intuitive truth of their own doctrine to be so overwhelmingly obvious that its opponents scarcely need to be taken seriously . |
| 21 | As a result of the infection , the small blood-vessels supplying the skin become blocked and the resulting diminution of the blood-supply leads to local death of tissue , which manifests itself as the primary chancre . |
| 22 | For managers , the issue manifests itself at a more procedural level , and is now revolving around resource management . |
| 23 | Antrim , manifests itself at the surface as a roughly circular depression with a much deeper hole in one part of the area . |
| 24 | This high degree of concentration also manifests itself at the most localized scales . |
| 25 | The two rocks are different in chemical composition , and this difference manifests itself in a number of intriguing ways ; ways which a fair part of this book will be devoted to exploring . |
| 26 | LAWRENCE 'S LOVE for rootless music , music with no history , manifests itself in a dislike for the pantheon of rock gods and the reverence in which they are treated . |
| 27 | The ‘ resentment ’ at being denied possible access to positions of respect and maybe responsibility manifests itself in a number of ways , not least in the social posture of black youth in the UK . |
| 28 | Jill Duffy 's psychological involvement in housework , for example , manifests itself in a 105-hour week . |
| 29 | Cerebral oedema is thought to occur in a large proportion of patients towards the end of the treatment cycle , and manifests itself in a number of neuropsychiatric symptoms . |
| 30 | Although a region is a contingent historical process within the society , just as is a place for an individual , the former , because of its institutional role in the society , manifests itself in a more permanent structure . |