Example sentences of "[noun] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , Kant thinks that if morality is ultimately valid it is because we have somehow settled on these imperatives ourselves at the noumenal level , but to this — apart from the dubiousness of the metaphysics — it is likely to be objected that if the imperatives spring from myself it is quite proper for me to rescind them when convenient . |
| 2 | The Italian was in the process of being shown the red card himself for a crunching tackle on Walsh when the Pompey striker hit back angrily . |
| 3 | However most practitioners of literary stylistics , including Halliday himself on a later occasion ( Halliday 1971 ) , would insist on supplementing the comparative approach just described with some kind of functional analysis — analysis , that is , that asks what the language of a text does , how it contributes to the meaning and effect of the whole . |
| 4 | On occasions , after a programme , he would slip into the empty studio , seat himself at the grand piano and play — mostly chords and nothing recognizable . |
| 5 | The steadying windvane is a help , and the alternative triangular frame idea shows a way of using weight itself as a stabilising force . |
| 6 | Therefore representative democracy presents itself as the best compromise . |
| 7 | The programmes on the computers , also accessible to visitors to Pompeii itself in the small museum at Boscoreale , are the culmination of what is known as the Neapolis project . |
| 8 | It 's a wonder any parts are left at all , what with debts of £6.5m and Sir John Hall still waging the boardroom battle that has very nearly claimed the club itself as the ultimate , ironic , victim . |
| 9 | As an undergraduate myself in the late sixties , I met two famous pioneer sisters , the Misses Deneke . |
| 10 | Do n't try to cure the flakiness yourself with an anti- dandruff shampoo — it requires a different treatment . |
| 11 | That would be the best time to refinance with a fixed-rate mortgage and lock oneself into the German virtuous circle of medium-paced growth , low inflation and minimal home loan costs . |
| 12 | In the end , several firms undertook penicillin production on a massive scale , but hardly any ever came to Florey himself for the clinical trials which he was desperate to extend . |
| 13 | Its system of display and retrieval must therefore be such that this kind of learning can proceed : that the individual user can , to a very great extent , progress himself through the various pathways to knowledge provided by the library , with the minimum of unnecessary difficulty and the maximum reinforcement . |
| 14 | Carole , who had fallen to the floor and was attempting to massage her husband 's knee , looked up to see Kenneth Baker himself in a camel-hair dressing gown , flanked by two men with guns . |
| 15 | The elderly admirer is Nestor himself in a false beard and Irma , who is clearly short sighted as well as dim and really nice , hardly notices the difference . |
| 16 | Lamarck , and many of his contemporaries ( including Charles Darwin himself in the later stages of his life ) , supposed that repeated use of a trait could itself change the genetic material that was responsible for the transmission of that trait so that characters acquired or improved by repeated use could be inherited directly by the offspring . |
| 17 | Such an individual could choose to ignore conventional time-cues and so cocoon himself in an artificial world in which meals and artificial lighting are adjusted to accord with the dictates of his body clock — like the subject in a cave ( in chapter 2 ) and the opposite of what happens normally , when our life-style adjusts our body clock . |
| 18 | Sloan no slouch himself in the cantankerous department was not of much help . |
| 19 | James Lee Byars , who is no slouch himself in the mystical department , deploys white marble balls at Mary Boone ( until the 25th ) . |
| 20 | Both local associations pointed unambiguously to slavery itself as the disruptive factor ; only with emancipation would ‘ a Population of turbulent Slaves [ be ] converted into one of peaceable Colonists ’ . |
| 21 | The Parliament Act 1911 still recites that ‘ it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis ’ and explains the Act itself as a temporary measure pending such a substitution . |
| 22 | The team had already identified the capability of the switchboard equipment itself as a major cause of delays and one recommendation was that Direct Dial In [ DDI ] facilities should be installed so that calls could be dialled direct to specific people , by-passing the switchboard . |
| 23 | , well we have got complex numbers , but we ca n't have B itself in the complex number , right , so B square must be nine , so either B is plus three or B is minus three , one or the two |
| 24 | Who then , was to determine whether or not the water came from faults and fissures in the rock , or from the vein itself in the usual manner ? |
| 25 | But such criticisms were rebutted this week by Selina herself with the simple argument that whatever her talents are , one of them lies in getting people to watch her on the television . |
| 26 | And I was just squeezin maself into a five and a half when Moira McVitie round the crescent in the cul de sac comes by and shouts out ‘ Hiya there Verena is that you trying on some fuck-me shoes for yer man gettin back . ’ |
| 27 | Here you can relax in a pine lodge overlooking a lovely garden , or sun yourself on the semi-circular sun terrace . |
| 28 | In chains he tells the Sanhedrin itself about the one name in heaven by which we must be saved . |
| 29 | I WAS surprised to read in the article by Harry Mead ( Echo January 17 ) and your editorial ( January 20 ) where , after a careful scrutiny of the present troubles in Northern Ireland , both of your suggested conclusions were for accepting the defeatist attitude of the greater good subordinating itself to the prevalent evil . |
| 30 | although on one level Balzac 's story is ‘ about ’ castration ( one of the characters is a castrato singer ) , in Barthes 's reading the theme of castration is seen as a pretext for a kind of reflexive anxiety on the part of the text itself concerning the very possibility of representation . |