Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We consult the professional when help of a specific nature is required , often when the situation in which we find ourselves contains an element of crisis . |
| 2 | We have committed ourselves to increase the programme on school buildings by 16 per cent . |
| 3 | Simple lies we tell ourselves to hide the truth . ’ |
| 4 | We also , with him , dedicate ourselves to serve the King of Kings . |
| 5 | Starting from a critque of Cartesian notions of boundaries , taken to include , for example , the subject and the object of photography , Lomax discusses the contemporary crisis of representation whereby we sense ourselves inhabiting an environment of images , images which refer only to other images . |
| 6 | Thus , the ‘ humanitarianism ’ that informs his programme is also derived from selfish , rational motives ; it stems from the fact that , since we can imagine ourselves breaking the contract , we can also imagine ourselves being the objects of punishment . |
| 7 | In reaching that conclusion , we should ourselves administer a caution . |
| 8 | MANY of us were brought up on stories of great inventors and individualistic engineers , and have since had to reeducate ourselves to understand the development of science and technology as a social process , or even to believe that inventions are ‘ socially constructed ’ . |
| 9 | But I think if we persist if the club and ourselves continue the way that we 're going those numbers will become less and less . |
| 10 | Now , in turning to style as recurrence , pattern , frequency we find ourselves taking the reader 's point of view . |
| 11 | Obviously , he sees Britain as the sweatshop of the world — he almost said as much — and , if we are unlucky enough to find him in office for more than a few more months , we may find ourselves taking the place previously occupied by the Soviet Union , as Upper Volta with rockets . |
| 12 | We commit ourselves to maximise the potential of communication in the task of nation-building and the Church 's mission . |
| 13 | Because of a very busy diary and work commitments that invitation could not be realised until early this August when I and tackle manufacturer , Richard Gardner , found ourselves boarding a ferry at Dover bound for Calais . |
| 14 | Lazaris suggests that whatever we most pride in ourselves gives a clue to our Ego 's fantasies . |
| 15 | It is entirely clear from the documents in front of us in the treaty that we are enabling ourselves to have the option to opt in . |
| 16 | As I have already said , we have pledged ourselves to maintain the pension 's real value . |
| 17 | We may yet find ourselves fighting a war on three fronts , and all one war . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Authorities like ourselves take the training and development of care managers seriously . |
| 19 | But we do pledge ourselves to undertake the task with energy and determination , confident that in the full-time life of our Parliament we can make a great advance in industrial prosperity . |
| 20 | There is a system of spatio-temporal relations in which we ourselves have a place and which provides that unified framework within which every particular is uniquely related to every other , and where the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity has a perfectly valid and immediately intelligible application . |
| 21 | the difficulty is not to be hidden — we ourselves have no right to hide it . |
| 22 | King Hussein had himself undertaken a tour of major European capitals from Jan. 2 in a final attempt to prevent the outbreak of war with Iraq . |
| 23 | The defendants , inter alia , submitted that the owner of confidential information could not restrain its use by a party to whom it had accidentally escaped and who had not himself undertaken the duty of confidentiality . |
| 24 | If Mr Lawson could bring himself to go a stage further , admit some mistakes and consider other policies to use in combination with high interest rates , he might even win their support . |
| 25 | Three days later Abbot Kenneth himself christened the baby . |
| 26 | Sizgorić , even though he wrote in Latin , was aware of the rich vernacular folk poetry of the Slav peoples and himself translated a volume of folk sayings and proverbs into Latin . |
| 27 | If money gave him power , he himself became a victim of it : many of these young men , once the recipient of Minton 's not uninterested generosity , returned in a steady stream for more . |
| 28 | Hallam 's generous gift providing leaving scholarships was finally accepted , and he himself became a Governor in October 1885 . |
| 29 | Damon himself became a father at 22 . |
| 30 | Vologsky himself became the butt for smutty jokes and innuendoes . |