Example sentences of "involves [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he is trying to describe , and to find terms to name , is what would later be called ‘ existential awareness ’ , an awareness which includes and involves ourselves by contrast with any more or less detached knowledge of facts and truths quite external to ourselves . |
| 2 | It must be admitted that a great deal of what Judaeo-Christianity has to say about the ‘ goodness ’ of God is based upon claims about the way in which He involves himself in the historical process . |
| 3 | If we accept , with Aristotle , that a citizen by true definition is someone who involves himself or herself in public or community affairs , then that person is ‘ active ’ . |
| 4 | Cabrera Infante , among others , repeatedly draws attention to his role as author , while the narrator of Alfredo Bryce Echenique 's A World for Julius not only maintains a running dialogue with the reader , but also involves himself with his characters , putting himself in their shoes , addressing them directly as if they were there alongside him and , like a supporter at a sporting event , siding with some against others . |
| 5 | In these circumstances , where a director alleges an agreement with a committee of the Board for payment of remuneration , the court will not , in law or equity , award a sum to him for services to the company , as in relying on such an alleged agreement the director involves himself in an irreconcilable conflict between his duties as a director and his personal interests . |
| 6 | I seem to remember several cases in which the court considered to what extent the solicitor involves himself in the financial arrangements for a conveyancing transaction . |
| 7 | As a result Mossad involves itself in any type of operation that it feels helps Israel or at least deters its enemies . |
| 8 | In day to day terms , Convocation involves itself int he life and work of the University through its Chairman ( currently Dr Derek Zutshi ) and its committee . |
| 9 | He clearly favours a state which involves itself essentially through monetary transaction rather than direct intervention in other more qualitative spheres of life . |
| 10 | This point has been reinforced further by the findings of Goldsmith and Newton ( 1986 ) who show that , while the Thatcher government has been very directive towards local authorities on council house sales , by contrast it hardly involves itself in matters of environmental health ( a reflection of the much lower priority the Thatcher government gives to this policy area ) . |
| 11 | The RSPB goes to great lengths to research the topics in which it involves itself , so that people will take notice of what the Society says and does and treat its views with respect . |
| 12 | While the male of one of these species constructs the nest alone ( as in other weavers ) , in others the female also involves herself in this activity and in two cases receives the active assistance of additional apparently adult birds . |
| 13 | And of course , ironically the western powers Britain involves herself in Portugal . |
| 14 | Britain involves herself in Greece . |
| 15 | And she involves herself with equal energy in various local charities . |