Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 … |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ? |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Had separatism confined itself to a political context , then however violent the discussion , its impact and effects would not have been a fraction of what they are . |
6 | The owner treated himself to the luxury of an SFIM two-axis autopilot for pitch and roll control . |
7 | The Provisional Government committed itself to a wide range of reforms . |
8 | The newspapers confined themselves to the show itself . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | The English attached themselves to the idea of privatising the operator in its entirety . |
13 | The party committed itself to the defence of " democracy , national identity and sovereignty " . |