Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [num] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked round and found himself three-quarters of the way down the bath . |
| 2 | Whether while winning the first US Open title in 1968 as an amateur or out-thinking Jimmy Connors in that classic Wimbledon final of 1975 , Ashe proved himself one of the game 's most gifted competitors . |
| 3 | Lancaster proved himself one of the most outstanding of Edward 's commanders , and he and his men not only covered themselves with glory but also substantially enriched themselves . |
| 4 | Would you call Mao himself one of the intellectuals ? |
| 5 | In the process he proved himself one of the sport 's great survivors . |
| 6 | In the process he proved himself one of the sport 's great survivors . |
| 7 | This is more than triple the national average , itself one of the worst in the developed world . |
| 8 | But they pay an unexpected price , which is itself one of the underlying differences between old age in the past and in the present . |
| 9 | Itself one of the sights of the city , which ranks among the most attractive places on the Continent . |
| 10 | The reason why is summarised in my own ‘ Principle of inverse irreversibility ’ , a sub-paradigm of my ‘ Law of innate tendencies ’ , itself one of the laws that go to make up the all-encompassing ‘ Law of irrelevant correlates ’ , as explained in my work-in-progress , ‘ Irrelevant correlates ( and others ) ’ , which promises to be hailed on publication as the definitive analysis of systematised muddleheadedness . |
| 11 | Lack of information is another reason for the persistence of structural unemployment , being itself one of the causes of geographical and occupational immobility . |
| 12 | Many of their parents , on the other hand , saw the Unification Church as an institution that was itself one of the evils of the world and which had ensnared their sons and daughters , taking away their free will . |
| 13 | A taste of stalactite climbing at a more human level is provided by the sustained E1 5b of Arrampicatopitheque ( thankfully the climbing 's easier than the name ) to the left of Casamanche — itself one of the best 7bs . |
| 14 | This ‘ closed drawbridge ’ mentality from those who have safely gained access to the good life , or at least a better life , is itself one of the factors that is having a ‘ ghettoizing ’ effect on the underclass . |
| 15 | Some such cases are obvious , as when false is itself one of the booleans , but some are more subtle , as in unc where , in the lefthand process , one of the booleans in the inner IF is always false because of its context . |
| 16 | This continuous evaluation , which is in itself one of the cornerstones of any Total Quality System , is continuing by means for further routine seminars . |
| 17 | Since its inception in 1984 the Middlesbrough 10k Road Race and Fun Run has proved itself one of the premier events of its kind in the North-East . |
| 18 | And , to Sven Hjerson 's concealed annoyance , Miss Arabella Buckley had contrived to make herself one of the group , her ample form straining the faded green canvas of a chair firmly set among the others . |
| 19 | Their vows were received by the General Moderator of the Congregation , Sr. Ellen Gielty , who was herself one of the first three Notre Dame missionaries to go to Nigeria in 1963 . |
| 20 | MP Jim Wallace made his appeal for such an inquiry on the floor of the House of Commons ; and when the topic was brought up at the Scottish Liberal Democrats Conference , he was supported by Judy Steel , wife of the former leader of the Liberal Party , and herself one of the first ever Reporters to a Children 's Panel when the system began in 1971 . |
| 21 | She 's a trustee of SCARF ( skin cancer research fund ) ; she considers herself one of the lucky ones , having had minor surgery herself . |
| 22 | Marie Thwaites has a sunny disposition , rarely stops smiling and has happy memories of her experiences as a hired hand , She considers herself one of the fortunate ones , although her innocent description of the daily regime she had to endure would be considered intolerable indeed cruel today . |
| 23 | Lucy Lippard wrote about Eva Hesse in 1976 : ‘ Hesse died just before the women 's movement gained a broad impact on the art world and she considered herself one of the unusual ones , almost a freak , since there were so few women artists at all visible at that time ’ 5 |
| 24 | Consider yourself one of the family . |
| 25 | Consider yourself one of the family . |
| 26 | This is to certify that Color Serjeant Nicholl served in the Grenadier Company of the King 's Regiment for twenty one years , and being myself one of the Officers of the Company during the greatest part of that period , I have consequently had an opportunity for closely observing his character and conduct , therefore it is but doing him that justice which his uniformly good behaviour merits , to state that I have never ( in his station in life ) met with a more truly steady or strictly honest a man . |
| 27 | I came out of the orphanage to go and live with my mother and I found myself one of the family of six living in one room , the house was a four roomed house plus a scullery . |
| 28 | Women are gentler , softer , cleaner , altogether nicer things and I , who always considered myself one of the boys , had come to the surprising conclusion that the companion I Wanted most was a woman . |
| 29 | ‘ I can at least say that I have been there and I count myself one of the lucky ones . ’ |
| 30 | Echoing another observation by Freud , the authors of the recent study note that ‘ The superego in its function as a pilot seems to utilize internalized verbal prohibitions ’ , and point out that the efficacy of verbal regulation seems to be linked to the time-table of brain growth , and in particular to the maturation of the frontal lobes , themselves one of the major cerebral acquisitions produced by the process of neoteny in man : ‘ The frontal lobe comprises about one third of the hemispheric surface ; it includes the primary motor areas , the premotor areas , and frontal eye fields . ’ |