Example sentences of "[pn reflx] and to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are sure that the exercise will prove beneficial both to ourselves and to the individuals who undertake the unit . |
| 2 | It 's true that that is a common feature really from the time of for the last five hundred million years , from the time of the earliest fish to ourselves and to the birds and everybody else , but it 's like that not because there is some kind of profound law of form , which says that 's the kind of organism which is in permitted by the laws of development to arise , erm I mean the law form would be something like erm a law of physics which says that if objects move round the sun they 're going to do so in ellipses with the sun at one focus . |
| 3 | He had to justify himself somehow , both to himself and to the public . |
| 4 | Dangerous , that was , to himself and to the snoring Matchsticks beside him . |
| 5 | Their insecurities were doubtless increased through reading theological works such as William Perkins ' Whether a Man , published in 1589 , which argued that a reprobate might attain temporary faith and ‘ seem both unto himself and to the Church of God to be a true professor of the Gospel , and yet indeed be none ’ . |
| 6 | Whereas similar protests in December 1986 ( which had led to the eventual abandonment of a programme backed by the International Monetary Fumd ( IMF ) — see p. 34923 ) had focused only on economic grievances , discontent now extended to the role of Kaunda himself and to the entrenched position of the ruling United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) as the sole legal party . |
| 7 | His prose too is highly mannered in both his Latin and his English treatises ; it calls attention to itself and to the writer in striking contrast to the calm , lucid prose of our other mystics , who are all careful to make it clear that their word is not law but only their own opinion . |
| 8 | ‘ He who controls the past controls the future ’ is the message of his last utopia : a sense of history is ultimately power , since a people is guided and governed by a collective sense of what it means to itself and to the world , and history gives it that sense , and only history . |
| 9 | Three countries-Brazil , India and Japan-were initially identified in May as candidates for such retaliatory action ( see p. 36926 ) ; at a special GATT Council meeting on June 21 and at the subsequent regular meeting on June 21-22 these three all expressed the apprehension that eventual US action under this provision would undermine GATT and the Uruguay Round , whereas the USA maintained that no trade action had yet been taken and assured the Council of its continuing strong commitment to both GATT itself and to the Uruguay Round . |
| 10 | The major costof the surgical procedure relates to the operation itself and to the postoperative hospital stay . |
| 11 | The alternative of deciding not to get involved in any but the most obvious and serious cases means that an enormous amount of damage can be done by each and every suffering individual both to himself or herself and to the Company while he or she progresses inexorably towards becoming a " serious case " . |
| 12 | She pulled the cold embroidered spaces of satin kimono closer to her and pressed her back into the wire of the fender before she drew the basket , full of wounded dog , nearer to herself and to the heat — the little bitch trembled amongst all her luxuries . |
| 13 | I KILLED little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general . |
| 14 | Their courage in entering into the conflict and their presence of mind in circumstances in which they have been in enormous danger are a great tribute to the individuals themselves and to the institution that sent them . |
| 15 | Doctors whose work brings them into contact with detainees owe it to themselves and to the detainee to take the trouble to make a special study of the subject and undertake further training . |
| 16 | A few of our players have an awful lot to prove both to themselves and to the fans i.e. Deane ( to score more than once in a game ) , Newsome ( to defend well against good opposition ) , Fairclough ( to prove to the manager that he is one of the best man to man markers in the game ) . |
| 17 | We are also developing a common funding formula for self- governing schools which is fair , both to the schools themselves and to the local education authorities which is transparent and which offers a reasonable prospect of stability of funding . |
| 18 | ‘ People got married with the same sense of cultural duty that people today ( often the same people ) get divorced , ’ according to the novelist Malcolm Bradbury , ‘ You owed it to yourself and to the times … |
| 19 | Perhaps if I start by saying that er I have er produced a one page summary which was n't with my er initial statements , which I passed to Mr and to Mr , but if I could er pass copies of that to yourself and to the panel . |