Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The separation also resolves the problem of remorse when we tax ourselves about an unphilosophical action we may have taken .
2 Herbert Morrison wrote shortly before the 1933 Labour Party Conference : If the Socialist League point of view were approved by the Party it would drive us to defend ourselves for the greater part of our time against Tory allegations of Bolshevism and dictatorship .
3 In addressing this task we combined local , national and international action , distinguishing ourselves as a strategic force for conservation .
4 It at last gives Renault a diesel flagship worthy of the name , a car that should help Phil Horton and his team , in his words , ‘ position ourselves as a major player in the U.K. diesel league with the aim of taking more fleet sales from our competitors . ’
5 We see ourselves as a major event , not just a sailing event , ’ says Blyth .
6 Chay Blyth — ‘ We see ourselves as a major international event ’
7 Alan Calladine added : ‘ We class ourselves as a working railway museum and are prepared to develop any aspect of the railway scene .
8 Establishing ourselves as a credible force in Germany and further east is not a simple task , but I am confident that we are gradually putting the team in place who will achieve this objective .
9 ‘ We see ourselves as a one-stop shop , ’ said .
10 And that goes back to what I said earlier , in that we just do n't see ourselves working internally , in meetings , in negotiations and report binding , with erm , with other officer 's , we see ourselves as a vocal point to get in information out , to , to people , erm and working with people , erm , and that 's erm again a major part of the work we do and just as an example of something that we provide , this is erm , this is the hidden divide , the bulletin of Harlow 's Anti Poverty Strategy Group , this is the latest edition , and it 's just an update on erm impact of eh living in Britain in nineteen ninety one today , the people who are on low income , but we , we 've produced that quarterly , erm , but there , we produce loads of leaflets , were always producing leaflets , and basically if there 's a major piece of legislation there be , there be something worth getting use on it .
11 The press also showed an encouraging understanding of our mission to establish ourselves as a world-class scientific and engineering services business .
12 ‘ In that relatively short space of time we have established ourselves as a vital source of providing banking services to local people .
13 We do — quite practically and with useful influence — if we choose to cast ourselves as a vigorous , amending , debating part of the European team .
14 We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority .
15 As it unfurls the panoramic vistas of past periods and epochs within the European cultural tradition , history builds a view of ourselves as the inevitable continuation and culmination of everything that has gone before .
16 That too is why we welcome the appointment by the Government of consultants to examine the feasibility of privatisation as an important step along the path of establishing ourselves as an independent business .
17 We followed a stream up Salubrious Passage before squeezing ourselves through a small twisting passage to bring us back above ground .
18 As we write for an instrument we must be playing it in our imagination , with the right bowings and fingerings , feeling the sensations of different registers , expressing ourselves through the different tones and timbres , the possibilities of legato , staccato , vibrato , etc .
19 So to sum up , if we want to help ourselves towards a healthy heart and a long and happy life we need to eat a low fat diet , take regular exercise and stop smoking .
20 After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude .
21 Then , we remind ourselves of the supreme example of Christ , who placed his trust in his father 's love and ascended the hill of Calvary for our redemption .
22 We seek to rid ourselves of the awful thought that we might have some responsibility for what has happened .
23 At this point we can usefully remind ourselves of the central problem with which urban sociology is engaged and the reasons why we are engaging in the problematic areas of theory discussed in this chapter and in Chapter 1 .
24 First of all , let us remind ourselves of the traditional picture of children drawn for us by some great philosophers of the past .
25 Let us finish by reminding ourselves of the traditional skills and purposes of historians .
26 It is to remind ourselves of the radical demands of God , and to realize that to call the Christian gospel ‘ good news ’ is to concentrate on only half the story .
27 It is useful to avail ourselves of the general habit of personifying the law and talking of what it requires , permits , claims , authorizes , etc .
28 This kind of argument reads well in Callinicos ' hands , but it is worth reminding ourselves of the unattractive reality to which it bears witness .
29 Let us therefore remind ourselves of the huge distances , inner and outer , that Joyce has travelled , and take one final look at his total undertaking .
30 Before looking more closely at our departed medium Doris and other psychics and their phenomena , let us remind ourselves of the main areas .
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