Example sentences of "[pn reflx] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , though we do not rid ourselves of the ego , we do transcend it and make it softer and enable ourselves to see things calmly . |
| 2 | That 's why we should now make a start on reminding ourselves of the relevance of our own particular life story . |
| 3 | To convince ourselves of the specificity of the bursting effect , Roger and I repeated the experiment using the electroshock amnesia approach I referred to above ; the bursting activity , like the biochemical and structural changes , occurs only in the animals which remember the task . |
| 4 | Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions . |
| 5 | It is no doubt all to the good that we should rid ourselves of the delusion that our mortal bodies are inhabited by immortal souls , but , in claiming to be human beings , we are asserting our capacity for exercising moral choice and that implies moral responsibility . |
| 6 | It will help to remind ourselves of the challenge that Eglantine Jebb took up . |
| 7 | First of all we must rid ourselves of the belief that punishment is wrong if it causes pain or inconvenience and does not have the full interest of the criminal at heart . |
| 8 | We need to remind ourselves of the nature of judicial authority in the context of fundamental questions of constitutional law , as discussed above ( pp.33–41 ) . |
| 9 | At this season of the year we should remind ourselves of the parable that neighbours are not simply the people who live next door , rich friends , or even merely those with whom we agree . |
| 10 | Let us remind ourselves of the grounding formula for choices of ends : |
| 11 | It is as well to remind ourselves of the extent of England 's Test defeats in India and Sri Lanka . |
| 12 | The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are . |
| 13 | We 're about to rid ourselves of the blood and fat of the buffalo . " |
| 14 | Most of us will try anything to ease ourselves of the pain of having been unsatisfactory children . |
| 15 | His deafness debarred him from lectures , and he was unable to avail himself of the help of tutors , but he persevered and he graduated in 1911 , overnight becoming front-page news as the only deaf man ( then ) to achieve the academic distinction of Master of Arts of Cambridge University . |
| 16 | The Sergeant availed himself of the other . |
| 17 | Denim is the sound of a man audibly divesting himself of the baggage of the '80s , the personal mishaps , the disillusionment , the bad indie pop , the cellphones , the red braces , Club X and Margaret Hilda Thatcher . |
| 18 | For a moment , he almost wished he were at home , but then he shook his head as if to rid himself of the thought . |
| 19 | Part of Franco 's concern , in assuring himself of the backing of his staunchest allies , stemmed from the resurgence in support for Don Juan visible in the 1950s . |
| 20 | The location of the offence can be proved by the officer in the case to show that the offender could not avail himself of the dwelling defence under section 5(2) and ( 3 ) . |
| 21 | As Shylock says himself of the incident in Act 3 Scene 1 — line 28 : |
| 22 | A refugee is ‘ a person who , owing to a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race , religion , membership of a particular social group or political opinion , is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or , owing to such fear , unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country ’ , according to the United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees . |
| 23 | Furthermore , should the specified remedial works be carried out , and the odour emission continue , in any further proceedings , in respect of a statutory nuisance within s.92(1) ( c ) or s.92(1) ( d ) , the odour emitter could avail himself of the defence of best practicable means provided by s.94(4) and s.94(5) respectively . |
| 24 | Certainly nothing would be gained if action was taken under s.92(1) ( d ) of the Public Health Act 1936 , as the defendant would be able to avail himself of the defence of best practicable means provided by s.94(5) of the Public Health Act 1936 . |
| 25 | There have been suggestions that James owed Gowrie a great deal of money , and contrived the incident to rid himself of the debt ; or that he had homosexual designs on the young man , and had murderously silenced him when rejected . |
| 26 | That was how he worked , but in this case he could not free himself of the notion that although Francis was the victim he might not be the central figure . |
| 27 | In general terms this means that if one sets up a trust to accumulate income , and the settlor has not completely divested himself of the trust property , he will be chargeable to income tax on the trust income . |
| 28 | This was all quite accepted , but he could n't rid himself of the memory of his wife gazing blankly at the breakfast table with only the prospect of clearing it . |
| 29 | Holly straightened himself , shrugged at his shoulders to try to rid himself of the weariness , gazed back at the man 's face . |
| 30 | They walk together now , Philip listening , in horror and disbelief , as Iain unburdens himself of the story . |