Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 2 | Since it can not be known as a concept that will realize itself in the future , Sartre argues instead that the totality only produces itself in the moment : ‘ The incarnation as such is at once unrealizable except as totalization of everything and irreducible to a pure abstract unity of that which it totalizes ’ ( II , 58 ) . |
| 3 | In examining my own background it seems logical to refer to the findings of Selvini Palazzoli and Minuchin on the families of anorexics , but whereas Minuchin especially confines himself to the family ambience at the time of the onset of the disease , I should like to say a little more about the genesis of that family ambience . |
| 4 | It constantly adjusts itself to the correct tension as the string is being wrapped . |
| 5 | Dorinda only knows herself by the mirror : it has literally and figuratively provided her with a self-image . |
| 6 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 7 | The use of I in the paraphrase suggests moreover that it is the speaker who somehow sees himself before the infinitive event because it implies that he has not yet realized his desire . |
| 8 | It reigned almost without limit in primitive times when property was still very scanty , and it already shows itself in the nursery almost before property has given up its primal , anal form … . |
| 9 | If the semanticist takes the first tack , he soon finds himself in the business of adducing an apparently endless proliferation of senses of the simplest looking words . |
| 10 | He just settles himself into the cushion of the rear seat and waits for me to speak . |
| 11 | The former England amateur international , who still plays himself in the Bluebell Over 40 league on a Saturday morning , has persuaded several ex pros to come along , including former Sunderland and Ipswich forward Eric Gates , Hartlepool manager Alan Murray , former Newcastle and Sunderland centre half Jeff Clarke , former Middlesbrough defender Dickie Rooks and former Newcastle striker Alan Shoulder . |
| 12 | That still projects itself along the rusting shaft . |
| 13 | Nick Gillingham 's proudest moment was winning a silver medal at the Seoul Olympics almost 2 years ago , but it 's a sad perhaps frustrating fact that Gillingham still finds himself in the shadow of his greatest rival , Adrian Moorhouse . |
| 14 | In the company of work on offer here , the woman artist still finds herself on the defensive though she is laudably engaged in what Roberta Smith calls , the creation of ‘ a new kind of aesthetic back-talk ’ . |
| 15 | Design 's effective denial of a social formative or linguistic-representational function further isolates itself from the academies traditionally orientated towards understanding and valuing these . |
| 16 | But the mind always expresses itself through the body , consciously or unconsciously , just as it does in humans . |
| 17 | Chapter seven , the hinge by which The Form opens to this level of significance , directly addresses itself to the essence of the contemplative life — certainty of being , through which all experience is transfigured to joy . |
| 18 | It might be wise to include provisions ( Clause 28.01 ) for some form of substituted service to cover the case of a partner who deliberately absents himself from the firm , whether such absence is the ground for his expulsion or otherwise . |
| 19 | This high degree of concentration also manifests itself at the most localized scales . |
| 20 | The report cited above also concerns itself with the growth in projects creating electronic resources in the humanities , and the increase in those wanting access to information electronically held . |
| 21 | A disturbed situation also reveals itself in the south-east . |
| 22 | IBM also finds itself at the wrong end of several historical trends . |
| 23 | Your intervention clearly implicates myself in the charge you make of ‘ defeatist talk ’ about the scientific connection between material deprivation and premature death . |
| 24 | The work has voices in the first two movements , but is essentially for solo organ , dazzlingly played by Gaston Litaize , who clearly enjoys himself of the magnificent beast which lives in the church of St. Francois-Xavier in Paris . |
| 25 | He then fires the weapon , which automatically steers itself toward the target and dives on to its vulnerable upper parts . |
| 26 | QEMM is a memory manager that 's not only efficient , it automatically installs itself with the minimum of effort and gives you huge extra chunks of available memory . |
| 27 | Although tied in , it also supports itself on the pyracantha which , in its turn , requires strong anchorage |
| 28 | P. pictus is sensitive to poor water and this often manifests itself in the degeneration of the barbels and the membrane between the fin rays . |
| 29 | The barbels are long and are a great temptation to other fish which sometimes pick at them and damage them , P. pictus Is sensitive to poor water conditions and this often manifests itself in the degeneration of the barbels and the membrane between the fin rays . |
| 30 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |