Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piggott , 57 , gave himself much of the credit for the victory , cheekily telling trainer Richard Hannon : ‘ I rode a brilliant race , did n't I. ’ |
| 2 | To hold the regime together , and maintain himself at its head , he manoeuvred not only to maximize his chances of material and territorial satisfaction , but also to avoid alienating from himself any of the factions within his regime , while , at the same time , bolstering his own hegemony by ensuring the persistence of competition between them . |
| 3 | Yet the first step had been taken , and an inexpressible sadness closed in upon him , as if he had stripped himself wantonly of the children who were his own flesh . |
| 4 | He 's been making himself part of the England scene by acting as spy for some time now as already noted on the list . |
| 5 | What did bother her was the realisation that very soon Luke could find himself part of the same mess . |
| 6 | In another decade the new Bokhara will have attracted to itself much of the importance of the ancient city , and with its rise and growth the prestige of the latter must inevitably decline . |
| 7 | No country has yet settled on how to rid itself forever of the thousands of tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear waste that is piling up at power plants . |
| 8 | In September Leslie 's 5th Brigade found itself part of the 4th Indian Division , and it was with this famous fighting force that he was to spend about the next nine months . |
| 9 | It had become an ‘ invasion of privacy ’ ( creation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries of ‘ bedrooms ’ was an important move in the development of sexual privacy , itself part of the development of a stable home unit appropriate to capitalism ) . |
| 10 | As the quote from Guttierrez shows , the struggle to build a just society is itself part of the process of salvation . |
| 11 | He was also made surveyor of the forest of Galtres , to the north of York , which was not itself part of the duchy but included the duchy manors of Easingwold and Huby , of which the duke was also made surveyor . |
| 12 | But to implement these policies requires winning political power , and therefore the debate about the future of the underclass is itself part of the debate about the future of left politics in Britain . |
| 13 | The aesthetic form of presentation is itself part of the reinterpretation . |
| 14 | They visibly sharpened at the end of the decade as medics were forced onto the defensive by a growing feminist campaign demanding the repeal of the acts — itself part of the wider upsurge of the mid-Victorian women 's movement . |
| 15 | This defeat was itself part of the wider eclipse of state medicine in the 1870s and 1880s , which opened the space for purity groups to push for their own conception of sexual reform through the criminal law . |
| 16 | His paper is , therefore , partisan — it does not pretend to be other and it is itself part of the discourse in support of psychodynamic theory . |
| 17 | From our knowledge of Nietzsche 's earlier thinking on that subject , we would naturally take such a title to imply a central concern with tragedy and its demise , but it is certainly significant that the word " tragedy " is not itself part of the title . |
| 18 | The implementation of the Syrian-backed strategy ( itself part of the wider Taif 1989 accord — see p. 36986 ) had been fully set in motion on Oct. 13 when Syrian and Lebanese Army troops finally removed Gen. Michel Aoun from his East Beirut stronghold [ see pp. 37792 ] . |
| 19 | Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) . |
| 20 | He was also made surveyor of the forest of Galtres , to the north of York , which was not itself part of the duchy but included the duchy manors of Easingwold and Huby , of which the duke was also made surveyor . |
| 21 | However , the seriousness of the charge is itself part of the circumstances that the court should taken into account in deciding if the standard of proof has been met . |
| 22 | Their activism is now able to sustain itself independently of the lives , dreams and aspirations of the majority of blacks from whose experience they derive their authority to speak . |
| 23 | Woe betide a Soviet regime which shoots Russian and Eastern Ukrainian miners , the elite of the working class in the supposed land of the proletariat , and does so moreover in an era when suppression of news is no longer possible and society is rapidly organising itself autonomously of the state . |
| 24 | Elsewhere in the media world , LWT has come up with a new plan to restructure itself ahead of the new franchise auction in 1992 . |
| 25 | But it would be well for British business to remind itself occasionally of the message contained in Figure 1 ( page 60 ) : the fastest-growing markets are not in Europe . |
| 26 | Robyn is rather less generous with the next supplicant , a young man who broke his ankle falling off his motorbike on New Year 's Eve , but even the least deserving candidate gets a few days ' respite , for Robyn tends to identify with the students against the system that assesses them , even though she is herself part of the system . |
| 27 | ‘ But I am neither so foolish , nor so quixotic — nor , I may add , is my mind and resolution of so high an order ! — as to deprive myself entirely of the opportunity to better my own lot . |
| 28 | Transposons are fragments of DNA that seem to have evolved the ability to reduplicate themselves independently of the chromosomes in which they are integrated , and to re-integrate duplicate copies in other parts of the chromosome . |
| 29 | 2 ) A cycling awareness programme promoted by RoSPA , called ‘ Right Track ’ — aimed at educating youngsters , but with the emphasis on them working out solutions to problem situations ( eg turning right ) themselves instead of the trad cycle proficiency ‘ do it like this ’ approach . |