Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ignominious collapse of the grand scheme the two separated , each to accommodate itself to the developing capitalist system , each to find its own way forward within the system and as part of it . |
| 2 | The outer leaves are very important for the effect of the painting , especially against the sky , whereas it is possible to lose myself in the inner masses to some extent . |
| 3 | Through this it is possible to orient oneself amidst the various schools and to make sense of the anonymous drawings , which constitute the majority . ’ |
| 4 | Far away we can hear the noise of the wind forcing its way up some narrow gully then bursting free to hurl itself across the plateau we crossed yesterday . |
| 5 | The 12 aligned themselves with the opposition NLF to form the United Legislature Front , thereby reducing S. C. Jamir 's Congress ( I ) ministry to a minority . |
| 6 | This manifested itself in the falling returns in grain collections for provisioning the towns and the Red Army . |
| 7 | At one level , this exhibits itself in the place that mathematics and science have come to occupy , mainly in virtue of their underpinning of technology in all its forms , including information technology and computerization . |
| 8 | Paper circulates today in vast quantities , and you need only to retrieve some of this to provide yourself with an adequate body of notes at no cost at all . |
| 9 | Mr Attlee was careful to position himself with the majority view in Cabinet . |
| 10 | This links itself to the three previous parts because it displays a process which metaphorically or symbolically represents change . |
| 11 | This shows itself in a variety of ways : in the all-consuming craving for more money and possessions , more power and social status , and more pleasure and entertainment . |
| 12 | This left Lady Arran free to fortify herself with a large tot of rum . |
| 13 | For the most part these arose from the almost heedless manner in which Christians were prepared to identify themselves with the dominant values of secular Roman society . |
| 14 | For some this reveals itself as a conflict between the top and the lower tiers of the organization , between strategy making and local autonomy . |
| 15 | Charlie should have known the shysters when he saw them — but too often he was willing to identify himself with the craw-thumping brigade , allowing them to subvert his better , progressive instincts . |
| 16 | Sequencing This concerns itself with the problem of the sequence in which the items in the block are to be taught in relation to their usefulness and difficulty . |
| 17 | In the first year it had been careful to disassociate itself from the truck-driver 's pin-up image by boasting of the high social and business standing of its readers … ‘ seven corporation presidents , fourteen vice-presidents , psychiatrists , a mortician and three embalmers ’ were listed among the first subscribers . |
| 18 | Further , with a little prompting ( i.e. respondents presented with a standard list of classes and asked to place themselves ) the overwhelming majority of respondents were willing to assign themselves to the ‘ middle ’ or ‘ working ’ classes or some sub-division of these . |
| 19 | Anyone who was prepared to submit himself to a debtors ' prison for a token period could apply from The Fleet or the Marshalsea for the help of the Insolvent Debtors Court . |
| 20 | In Chapter 3 it was argued that pre-colonial society was indeed authoritarian , and that this expressed itself in a great stress on the conformity of the individual , and on a hierarchy of relationships between young and old , between chiefs and people and between men and women . |
| 21 | During a visit to the hairdresser 's I realized that we women are prepared to put ourselves through the most extraordinary practices in order to improve our image . |
| 22 | Patients who have had previous experience of hypnotherapy ( even if no regression was involved ) are more likely to have confidence in the technique and in its safety , and therefore are often more willing to put themselves in the hands of the therapist and trust their own subconscious . |
| 23 | More often , it turns into loss of direction or of purposeful organization , because no one is willing to separate herself from the rest in order to take charge . |
| 24 | This reflects itself in the fact that when I actually make a measurement I shall find the electron sometimes here and sometimes over there . |
| 25 | The English established themselves in a strong defensive position and on the evening of 26 August the French approached . |
| 26 | Are these people afraid to expose themselves in a panel condemning the National Health Service or just to sit in the background and make any comments ? |
| 27 | The central concern of all four of these 1949 conventions is the protection of victims of war , especially victims who in one way or another find themselves in the hands of the adversary . |
| 28 | Unable to effect a landing , the French satisfied themselves with an attack upon the Cawsand fishing fleet and were then compelled to put back to sea . |
| 29 | In paranoid disorders however , it is the son 's passive relation to the father that threatens to unman him , and this expresses itself in the characteristic symptom of paranoia — delusions produced by the mechanism of projection . |
| 30 | For these are hyper-competitive athletes , all ex-pro American footballers or wrestlers , and not afraid to punish themselves in the cause of being The Best . |