Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [subord] [v-ing] [art] " 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 | Some of us constantly tell stories where we depict ourselves as having the qualities we secretly think we lack or that others need reminding of . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As far as anybody knew , he 'd mangled himself while helping a friend with some car repairs . |
| 5 | By the turn of the century , which was only ten years since his first professional engagement , John Tiller had amassed a great fortune for himself whilst changing the lives of working-class girls by giving them good wages and a career . |
| 6 | Although Hutcheson thought of himself as defending the reality of moral distinctions , and the genuineness of a morally good benevolence which was not egoistically based , other thinkers were not happy with his treatment . |
| 7 | Matisse saw himself as occupying a similar transitional role to Giotto , but it is , in a way , Giotto 's role turned around . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He sees himself as having an intuitive , feminine aspect . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I have to count on the symbol itself as providing the main evidence for meaning and , of course , as providing the means for creating schematic knowledge which 1 do not have in advance . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Second mortgage Usually not so much a loan in itself as using the value of a home ( over and above the value of any company loan ) , usually large and now mainly for home improvements , for up to , say , seven years ; with fixed monthly repayments . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Might it be also true of Jackson 's work that its formalism is so relentless that it actually reveals itself as questioning the parameters within which it operates ? |
| 19 | Britain in the 1940s and 1950s saw itself as having a major power ( primarily military ) space programme . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It successfully portrayed itself as having the solution to Britain 's economic problems which it saw as being due to excessive State intervention in every sphere , and to the dependence mentality which this produced . |
| 23 | The Code recognizes itself as having the support of s. 66 and it would be expected that it is indeed ‘ generally recognized ’ . |
| 24 | The DPP , which wants an independent Taiwan and unlike the KMT harbours no dreams about the mainland , sees itself as representing the majority of the Taiwanese , who were on the island long before the mainland influx of the late 1940s . |
| 25 | A slow flush crept into Lucy 's cheeks , but she controlled herself while putting the last of the long , slim leaves into position , then she turned slowly to face the other woman . |
| 26 | In ‘ Danae 's Secret ’ ( oil on canvas , 1992 ) Hunter shows her pleasing herself while diverting the gold into a chest . |
| 27 | She saw herself as providing the political resolution that had been lacking hitherto . |
| 28 | She did not actually remember herself as talking the whole of the time — could there have been silent passages when the words were only reeling through her mind ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The concept of the village is to afford local craftspeople the opportunity to establish viable business for themselves while providing an alternative range of consumer goods which should prove attractive to both locals and visitors to the city . |