Example sentences of "[noun] [pn reflx] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As an undergraduate myself in the late sixties , I met two famous pioneer sisters , the Misses Deneke . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sloan no slouch himself in the cantankerous department was not of much help . |
| 8 | James Lee Byars , who is no slouch himself in the mystical department , deploys white marble balls at Mary Boone ( until the 25th ) . |
| 9 | , 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 |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | I think he even been on the boards himself in the early days . |
| 12 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 13 | Acheson himself in the early months of 1950 set out to imbue the British and other members of Nato with a greater sense of urgency . |
| 14 | Although the electorate had voted overwhelmingly against membership of the UN itself in a 1986 referendum [ see p. 34959 ] , Switzerland had since 1984 been a full participant in the General Arrangements to Borrow ( GAB ) established in 1962 , when the " Group of 10 " industrialized countries undertook to lend to the IMF . |
| 15 | In the 1986 film Round Midnight he starred as a jazz musician who , like Gordon himself in the Sixties , sought refuge in Europe . |
| 16 | He looked round the drawing-room , at the pictures and looking-glasses and ornaments shrouded in black , at Alexandra herself in the first mourning dress she had ever had . |
| 17 | He saw his would-be rescuer launch himself in a final dive … |
| 18 | More usually it left him ashamed and angry , despite his wife 's kind words of consolation , and Ashi herself in an agitated state of dissatisfaction and unhappiness . |
| 19 | In the preparation of the details themselves in the various shops , the underlying idea of continuous progression from one operation to another was adopted . |
| 20 | Having made a collection myself in a depressed area , I got £2.30 in total . |
| 21 | When Fokine was asked who was the male figure in Les Sylphides he replied : ‘ Perhaps he is Love himself in a romantic , nostalgic mood . |
| 22 | Allied troops now punched deep into Kuwait and on into Iraq itself in a multi-pronged attack . |
| 23 | People were coming to accept that Nonconformist chapels should look like ‘ churches ’ and that Nonconformist services should be more ‘ dignified ’ and ‘ ecclesiastical ’ ; it was not surprising that people should come to view the nature of the Church itself in a different vein from their forefathers . |
| 24 | Envy of the children — or over-concentration upon them by the other partner -will show itself in a dozen ways in attitudes and actions . |
| 25 | In America Dr James Tyler Kent was appalled by such modifications , feeling that many of the practices which Hahnemann had campaigned against had crept into the practice of homoeopathy itself in the one hundred or so years since its rediscovery . |
| 26 | She looked a little worn and bleary-eyed , though her long , lion-coloured hair shone like health itself in the brassy sunlight of mid-day . |
| 27 | The complaints must be made to the police themselves in the first instance and all subsequent investigations are undertaken by police officers . |
| 28 | The minister 's assessment of the scientific data , like that of Gwyneth Dunwoody , a Labour MP , was aptly described by the Minister himself in the parliamentary debate of 27 January 1983 . |
| 29 | The consequence of this progressive decline in popularity has been not only a sustained attack on what are perceived as the inadequacies of communist ideology and the Soviet system itself in the 1980s ( and there is no more iconoclastic an exponent of this form of criticism than Nizan 's own grandson , Emmanuel Todd ) , but more specifically , a tendency to overplay the critically dissident aspects of Nizan 's life and work , and to pass over in silence the more constructive , orthodox communist slant of his writings . |
| 30 | Probably the best known Vulcanian deposit is one produced by an eruption of Vulcano itself in the 1880s . |