Example sentences of "[noun] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Anti-Corn Law League may have helped to secure Whig support but what Peel himself called in a letter to Cobden his " 'sense of public duty " was more influential . " |
| 2 | Two years later we find Datini himself writing in the same vein to one of his partners in Spain , Cristofano di Bartolo , whom he wished to persuade to come home . |
| 3 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
| 4 | Certainly , when Richard himself wrote to the Calais garrison on 28 June , setting out his title , his claim was vague to the point of invisibility . |
| 5 | Certainly , when Richard himself wrote to the Calais garrison on 28 June , setting out his title , his claim was vague to the point of invisibility . |
| 6 | After a few moments the professor himself appears from a doorway . |
| 7 | ‘ He said it did n't matter , ’ another voice joined in , and Edward himself stood in the doorway . |
| 8 | Gorbachev himself warned of the danger of replacing an overcentralised state with ‘ something amoeba-like ’ , and called for ‘ strong republics and a strong centre ’ . |
| 9 | Between 1960 and the early 1970s the share of manufacturing industry in employment in Britain decreased and the total labour force itself declined from the mid 1960s . |
| 10 | It could be said , however , that this type of critique of Western rationalism itself belongs to a tradition within Western culture . |
| 11 | The special characteristics of the industry itself led to an emphasis on rules designed to regulate the forms of product and labour market competition . |
| 12 | The main conclusion about education and employment was that purely educational aims came first : schools should not prepare pupils for particular types of employment ; industry itself benefited from the teaching and learning of basic educational skills . |
| 13 | Tooting itself lies within the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth , in the County of London . |
| 14 | The card itself fits into a vacant expansion slot in the PC and replaces the existing card . |
| 15 | The Labour vote itself rose by an average of between 8.3% in hung authorities to 9.7% in the handful of Democrat-controlled districts . |
| 16 | But Minch had often told him that faith in Callanish waxed and waned through time as the wind itself changes through the day , and that eagles often forgot it , and wanted to forget . |
| 17 | It would then be the responsibility of the institution itself to decide upon the detailed allocation of resources within the programme . |
| 18 | Moreover , it stands in dazzling contrast to the sombre pessimism of most novels by white writers who seem to suffer what Alice Walker herself defines as a debilitating sense of ‘ cosmic guilt ’ and who have largely ceased to believe that literature can actually do anything . |
| 19 | He brought his talons and beak down on the bars with such force that the very Cages themselves shook with the power of it . |
| 20 | The extent of the input by the business units themselves depends on the style of planning management adopted by the planning department . |
| 21 | Their place did not , however , become central to disputes about the essential nature of secondary education until the secondary schools themselves established under the Act were subjected to dramatic change ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 22 | Books themselves fall into a number of categories and the beginning researcher may start from a textbook , a book which reviews a field of research or a ‘ reader ’ , which brings together excerpts on a certain topic . |
| 23 | Koskotas himself remained in a prison awaiting trial on major fraud charges . |
| 24 | It is consequently vital , when assessing Nizan 's communist novels , to bear in mind the importance that Nizan himself attached to the transition date of 1934 . |
| 25 | Luckily for the future of the SAS , Stirling himself escaped with a damaged wrist — which had the virtue of stopping him from driving for while . |
| 26 | At last Mandeville himself called off the search , rubbing his eyes and yawning . |
| 27 | On a number of occasions in the novel , the narrator Marcel himself refers to the intellect as a kind of lattice-work , with which we try to capture reality , but through which reality flows and escapes us . |
| 28 | Trade with them was forbidden , Thomson himself sailing with the fleet in an expedition which forced the colonies to submit ( 1650–5 ) . |
| 29 | Citilend Ltd v Stuart Craggs provides an example of a case in which a haulier finds himself sued for a commercial misdemeanour — hire purchase default — in the Queen 's Bench Division . |
| 30 | Sir Monty himself appeared on the panel at the end of the programme , expressing his opinion that the status of engineers was an intrinsic part of the problem . |