Example sentences of "to identify [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every single operation we go on whether we are in uniform or in plain clothes er and we are carrying a firearm , we need to identify ourselves as police officers . |
| 2 | It had various elements : detention upon arrest should only continue if the person was unwilling to identify himself or herself ; or if there was a likelihood that he or she would not turn up at court ; or if there was a need to prevent the continuation or repetition of the offence ; or if the arrest was essential to protect the arrested person or other persons or property or to secure evidence by questioning or other means . |
| 3 | To identify himself , the shopper dials into the teleshopping system , and triggers the card 's memory by tapping out his code number . |
| 4 | Unluckily , the model begins to identify himself with his divine original and violence threatens . |
| 5 | ‘ If we was into that shit , you would n't be able to stand on this corner with us like this , you 'd get killed , ’ points out one former member , who declines to identify himself . |
| 6 | He had to identify himself from the pavement . |
| 7 | Paul VI was from then on unable to identify himself with the ‘ progressives ’ in a way he had managed hitherto . |
| 8 | Mosley was opposed to the reprisals of the Black and Tans in Ireland and began to identify himself more and more with Lord Robert Cecil 's League of Nations Union . |
| 9 | Charlie should have known the shysters when he saw them — but too often he was willing to identify himself with the craw-thumping brigade , allowing them to subvert his better , progressive instincts . |
| 10 | As a result , a consignee of an English waybill does not need to present present the waybill to obtain the goods ; all the consignee needs to do in order to obtain the goods is to identify himself . |
| 11 | A white-collar job , owning a home or indulging in particular leisure pursuits may cause a person to identify himself as ‘ middle class ’ ; others may consider anyone who ‘ works , to be ‘ working class ’ ; others may preserve a sense of being ‘ working class ’ because of their family background , though their own social circumstances have changed . |
| 12 | The lyric poet ( in general ) is a composer first and foremost and , as such , a Dionysiac artist who surrenders his egoistic subjectivity to identify himself with the true metaphysical reality and reflect it in music . |
| 13 | For example , he needs to be able to identify himself and give personal facts about himself . |
| 14 | Here and elsewhere , the government strove to identify itself with new themes . |
| 15 | The church of the apostolic age sought to identify itself with the ‘ poor ’ whom Jesus had declared blessed ( Luke 6 : 20 ) ; or had he meant the ‘ poor in spirit ’ ( Matt. 5 : 3 ) , the humble-hearted , who could hold their property without pride as means to support the destitute ? |
| 16 | Saul asks the voice to identify itself . |
| 17 | If until 1832 the working class seen in a Marxist perspective as a proletariat was emergent and potential , if it had yet fully to identify itself , the Reform Bill of that year finally distinguished it from the rest of society . |
| 18 | Crushed ambitions and women 's lib feelings had rallied to the author 's right to identify herself with a polished ship . |
| 19 | Like her father before her , Elizabeth I was also reluctant to accept a split in Europe along religious lines or to identify herself too closely with international Protestantism . |
| 20 | I suppose he 's just her voice in case she needs to identify herself ! ’ |
| 21 | She picked up the receiver and had to identify herself again before she was patched through to Kolchinsky . |
| 22 | ‘ Who are we expecting , then ? ’ said Sally-Anne , who , like all good servants , was beginning to identify herself with her employers , and was one reason for her surprising success as a maid of all work . |
| 23 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 24 | My task was to identify myself as much as possible with the personnel of the College and their activities in order to mitigate their hostility and pro-Axis leanings . |
| 25 | Secondly I did write to all the members of the Council about the issue of the British National Corpus and their desire to have a record of English as she is spoke and their is a gentleman from here today , if you would care to stand up to identify yourself please . |
| 26 | do you , do , do you have a gun ? , button one for yes and button two for no well I 'm not going to ask you to identify yourselves the three of you |
| 27 | Some constables initially played up to the fact that their remarks would be appearing in print , hoping to identify themselves by saying something outrageous which was then suffixed by ‘ How about that for a quote for the book ? ’ |
| 28 | Fans dress carefully in order to identify themselves within their group . |
| 29 | Mr Rollins will be offering half price entry to GCHQ staff , the most cunningly cheap special offer in the history of marketing : staff at the Government 's intelligence gathering centre are not permitted to identify themselves . |
| 30 | Tanks and policemen armed with submachineguns have been deployed at airports ; members of Parliament have been issued with special badges to identify themselves inside Westminster . |