Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that it was very polite that we should go there in the evening and assess for ourselves exactly the harm th the possible harm that it could do to their gardens at the back and and that 's why we did that . |
| 2 | He contains within himself all the pop factions ( and the racial and social divisions that lie behind them ) that record companies try to straddle with strategies of hybridization as maximum market penetration . |
| 3 | Of course — he pulled himself together a bit — as a scientist I find all these phenomena extremely interesting . |
| 4 | The hotel owner will take people golfing himself once a week , and will even organise mini-tournaments if there is enough interest ! |
| 5 | Sometimes a midshipman 's place was sheer necessity , as in the case of a son of an Angus freeholder named David Lyell who found himself involuntarily a member of the Royal Navy . |
| 6 | When a person purports to act on behalf of another , but without his authority , the latter may subsequently ratify the act of the former , and thereby draw to himself both the benefit of , and the liability for , the act . |
| 7 | Frankie arrived back by himself about an hour later and drove off without a word to anybody . |
| 8 | Although in the early days Derek was happy to drive me around and did n't even charge me for the petrol , pretty soon our visits here and there grew so frequent and far afield that he was finding himself quite a bit out of pocket . |
| 9 | ‘ Not a lot to do in Vienna at present , and this Beethoven seems to be building himself quite a reputation . ’ |
| 10 | He was a big man with a fine moustache about the same age as her father had been , Emily guessed , but it was quite apparent that he considered himself quite a dandy . |
| 11 | Yeah he 's debauched himself quite a lot judging by his voice . |
| 12 | As a gentleman amateur with a place at court , Cavendish was not himself fully a member of ‘ a profession worthie some grace ’ ( as he described music in his dedication ) . |
| 13 | He had got into the habit of examining himself minutely every morning and would squeeze and ‘ milk ’ his urethra to see if there was any sign of discharge . |
| 14 | A service of thanksgiving in St Paul 's Cathedral was marked ( to Mrs Thatcher 's displeasure ) by a distinctly muted and moderate sermon from the Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr Runcie , himself certainly no jingo . |
| 15 | However discussion about ‘ discourse ’ is still highly theoretical and itself arguably a product of a Western intellectual tradition . |
| 16 | Enough to curve it right back on itself so an astronaut going in a straight line would land back where he started ? ’ |
| 17 | But it comprised , rather , a history of the West in which fascism was itself merely a symptom , and included not only the history of European imperialism but also the defeats of the European colonial powers by Japan in World War II , the subsequent French ( and American ) defeat in South-East Asia , the war in Algeria , as well as the many other colonial wars of national liberation . |
| 18 | He also stated in terms that can not be misunderstood that science is after all a human activity , dependent on human imagination to produce its hypotheses , absolutely incapable of describing the world absolutely , but setting itself merely the obligation of bouncing its ideas against reality . |
| 19 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |
| 20 | The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) . |
| 21 | Indeed we may speak of a ‘ new culture ’ created by modern communications , which affects everyone , particularly the younger generation , and is itself largely the result of technological advances which have created ‘ new ways of communicating , with new languages , new techniques and a new psychology ’ ( cf. |
| 22 | Although the popularity of the war economy lay at the root of the growth of socialism during the First World War , liberal internationalism was quick to reassert itself once the war was over . |
| 23 | This inherent resistance to change is exacerbated by the low priority accorded by our law schools to the teaching of comparative law and , in England , by an unwillingness to grapple with foreign languages , itself both a cause and a consequence of English becoming the new lingua franca . |
| 24 | t If so-called ‘ so-called poststructuralism ’ is the product of a single historical moment , then that moment is probably not May 1968 but rather the Algerian War of Independence — no doubt itself both a symptom and a product . |
| 25 | The unimpressive performance of most post-Ottoman Greek governments — itself partly a result of the general mistrust of the state — has made things no better . |
| 26 | A related point requiring emphasis is that much of what one is inclined to regard as the mere ‘ facts of the case ’ are often ‘ institutional ’ facts our recognition of which is itself partly the adoption of an attitude . |
| 27 | This once serviced collieries and quarries south of the Frome-Radstock line , itself now the subject of a preservation project , the Somerset & Avon Railway . |
| 28 | If we apply the equation simply to the electron by itself then the act of the microscope in determining the electron 's position has to be represented in a deus ex machina way as an external intervention bringing about the discontinuous collapse of the wavepacket . |
| 29 | It can be seen that continued administration of the remedy once the disease disturbance has been overcome will result in the presence of an energy pattern of the remedy itself i.e. a proving . |
| 30 | The network of family connections in Italy , though not in itself either a reason or motive for the policy which Napoleon III was to pursue in the peninsula , was nevertheless a help in that it did provide a useful information service and helped to create a feeling of sympathy for French policy . |