Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letter asked whether there could remain within CPSU ranks people who encouraged splits , engaged in factionalism and who " by their views and conduct have in effect placed themselves outside the party " . |
| 2 | There was one vital breakthrough for the nationalist consciousness , though there still remains some doubt as to how deep this was for the Fianna Fáil party : all the parties committed themselves to the recognition of the protestant — loyalist group as having legitimate aspirations and affirmed the need for the recognition of ‘ two sets of legitimate rights ’ coexisting in the island as a whole : ‘ Constitutional nationalists are determined to secure justice for all traditions … |
| 3 | I called for the last time at the first house in the village and pressed the buzzer , but on getting no reply resigned myself to the long walk down the mountain . |
| 4 | Their enemies equipped themselves in the same fashion . |
| 5 | One question which arises is why , with 256 code values available in each byte , has this control process limited itself to the 128 7-bit codes ? |
| 6 | But if Mr Major is at heart opposed to greater union , Britain 's policy is likely to be affected by the institutional pressures of Whitehall , which has over the years committed itself to the pro-European line . |
| 7 | primitive people regarded themselves as the only humans . |
| 8 | The owner treated himself to the luxury of an SFIM two-axis autopilot for pitch and roll control . |
| 9 | A young man placed himself between the shafts of the trap and prepared to pull his passengers round the village , but not before the publican had been fined a barrel of beer for speaking at the same time as the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ . |
| 10 | The newspapers confined themselves to the show itself . |
| 11 | The man who had opened the emergency door identified himself as the co-pilot and informed them that the pilot who had been at the controls had been knocked unconscious at the moment of impact and was badly injured . |
| 12 | But scientists reconciled themselves to the fact that the answers to such questions would never be known with certainty since the fish had obviously become extinct long ago . |
| 13 | Although the people of Stowey had by degrees reconciled themselves to the presence of Coleridge , who lived in their midst with his wife and child , Wordsworth 's arrival at remote Alfoxden , with a young woman said to be his sister , provided much greater scope for speculation . |
| 14 | Only when in technology body and image so interpenetrate that all revolutionary tension becomes bodily collective innervation , and all the bodily innervation of the collective becomes revolutionary discharge , has reality transcended itself to the extent demanded by the Communist Manifesto . |
| 15 | The Station Chief detached himself from the group . |
| 16 | The English attached themselves to the idea of privatising the operator in its entirety . |
| 17 | The party committed itself to the defence of " democracy , national identity and sovereignty " . |
| 18 | The twins perched themselves on the bed , Zach sat on the chair by the desk and George and Willie sat cross-legged with their backs leaning against the bookcase . |
| 19 | Bishop detached himself from the watching crowd . |