Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [subord] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The astonished reptile released its grip just long enough for Laba to break free and stagger off down the track — with the serpent in hot pursuit apparently loudly vocalizing with the same sibilant barks which we were later to hear ourselves while filming a python hunt . |
| 2 | It must not be thought that such differences are mere matters of imagination , and that we take the sensations to be different because we represent each of them to ourselves as occupying a different place . |
| 3 | As far as anybody knew , he 'd mangled himself while helping a friend with some car repairs . |
| 4 | Matisse saw himself as occupying a similar transitional role to Giotto , but it is , in a way , Giotto 's role turned around . |
| 5 | Gallie concludes that the relatively greater emphasis upon authoritarian and paternalistic practices within the French context is not solely a reflection of managerial attitudes engendered by the structural characteristics of industry , as typified by a long predominance of small , family firms in which the employer regarded himself as having a right to exclusive control . |
| 6 | Griffith had come to the movies quite late in life and he came as a man whose varied experiences and whose accumulated opinions , myths , and prejudices had given him a sense of America and of himself as having a place in it . |
| 7 | This is no exaggeration : though primarily a moralist , Arnold was almost equally a political reformer , and he thought of himself as performing a service to the state . |
| 8 | For one thing it was an opportunity , in a purely objective , journalistic sense , to expose the hypocrisy of a magazine that , to Branson 's mind , ‘ had always purported to be so perfect itself while having a go at everybody else ’ . |
| 9 | The active part is played by a public corporation , the National Coal Board , which carries on the vast bulk of the exploitation itself whilst licensing a minute amount of private enterprise by others . |
| 10 | Obviously radio would never recover the prominence of the post-war years , but it successfully re-established itself as meeting a need complementary to TV , whether judged by audience figures or by advertising revenue . |
| 11 | It was clear that the Government now saw itself as taking a greater part in determining TBC policies , and this was confirmed by the addition of an External Service to the TBC 's responsibilities . |
| 12 | Britain in the 1940s and 1950s saw itself as having a major power ( primarily military ) space programme . |
| 13 | The models of teaching it commended were expected to be influential , and the Authority saw itself as having a duty to provide a clear lead on the direction and character of primary classroom practice . |
| 14 | The emergence of nation states , initially in Western Europe and the US , depended upon two main conditions : one was the development of modern centralized government , undertaken by the absolute monarchs from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century , while the other was the rise of nationalism , embodying the idea of political self-determination for a social group which inhabits a definite territory , conceives itself as having a distinct ethnic and cultural character , and has embarked upon a struggle to establish popular sovereignty in place of dynastic rule . |
| 15 | The pure economist may see himself or herself as occupying a different space from that of the applied economist ; the ‘ scholarly ’ critic from the ‘ responsive ’ one ; the ‘ objective ’ social researcher from the ‘ interpretative ’ one ; the doctor who ‘ delivers ’ health care from the one who ‘ responds ’ to his or her patients . |
| 16 | A CU arises when countries join together to abolish all restrictions on trade between themselves while maintaining a common external tariff on imports into the Union . |
| 17 | However , if I do think of myself as making a considered choice , can I deny the justice of your reproach ? |
| 18 | But the chances are , too , that if at the beginning you saw yourself as writing a crime novel and no more , then you will have spoilt the novel you eventually turned out to have produced , as well as causing in a good many of your readers a subtle feeling of disappointment . |
| 19 | Q : I take it you would n't describe yourself as having a maternal nature ? |
| 20 | Do people who buy privatization stock see themselves as establishing a stake in the economy ? |
| 21 | Thus , the planners tend to see themselves as pursuing a policy which is , in terms of Central Government legislation , good professional and local government practice . |
| 22 | This appears to be because institutional shareholders who account for the great majority of shareholdings on The Stock Exchange see themselves as managing a portfolio for which they buy and sell . |
| 23 | The clash of symbols represented by Dixon and Rambo represents a more fundamental conflict between those policemen and women who emphasize their role in terms of crime-fighting , especially ‘ big crime ’ , and those who see themselves as having a public service and community welfare role . |
| 24 | There are two sorts of contact with the public , and how those neighbourhood police who see themselves as having a service role attempt to engender friendly and informal relations depends upon the type of contact . |
| 25 | But this type of contact also demonstrates that the neighbourhood police see themselves as having a welfare function . |
| 26 | All these people now regard themselves as having a moral claim to land inside Israel — which is one reason , of course , why the PLO was for so long loath to consider a Palestinian nation outside the boundaries of the Jewish state . |
| 27 | In democratic states , and even in those which see themselves as having a so-called information society ( even we define it as a society which offers increased access to information ) , some forms of censorship will be as much a part of the fabric of society as in a despotic state . |
| 28 | Parents often complain that they can only get help or support when they have identified themselves as having a specific problem , and it is not unusual for some families to have several different workers trying to offer support and advice on specific problems which , in reality , are part of a whole situation . |
| 29 | Do all your people see themselves as having a selling role ? |
| 30 | Headmasters , senators , judges , priests all see themselves as having a particular duty in this regard . |