Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This survey shows it is possible for sufferers to help themselves effectively as our programme has proved . |
| 2 | It is not possible , however , to come to any conclusion about the usefulness of testing and inspection ( outsider evaluations ) without considering what is possible for schools to do themselves ( Becher et al , 1979 , go on to consider the merits of school-based approaches ) . |
| 3 | Social production also makes it easier for workers to organize themselves against the capitalists . |
| 4 | When Geoff Cooke was asked last season about who would be available to him he suggested that he would not be too interested in players pledging themselves only to one final swansong against South Africa in November . |
| 5 | If necessary one evil will fight with another in order to advantage itself . |
| 6 | Though it is too early for beginners to concern themselves with the relationship between musical forms and mathematics , the often surprising exactness in the relative proportions of musical sections , and even between movements , may be mentioned here . |
| 7 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 8 | I once saw a cartoon which pictured hundreds of lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff and drowning in the water below . |
| 9 | Richard Baxter 's view that it was advantageous for a pastor to be celibate in order to give himself fully to the work of the ministry was well known . |
| 10 | The priest must be celibate in order to purify himself for the handling of the sacred in the sacrament . |
| 11 | A long time ago , Alice thought , as she heard the arrival of the first of Félix 's dinner guests , she and Harry had longed to be rich in order to buy themselves a house which they could share . |
| 12 | He only glances up at the television occasionally , as he is intent on finishing these as quickly as possible in order to give himself ti me to write a letter home to his wife . |
| 13 | If I did n't know better I 'd think he was trying to be as diplomatic possible in order to keep himself in line for the England job . |
| 14 | But he wanted to assure them of a more overpowering reason : he needed to re-establish himself on his home ground as firmly and quickly as possible in order to launch himself on Mary . |
| 15 | And that in fact lends itself to be to a new settlement being assimilated into the landscape completely in accord with the criterion of H two . |
| 16 | Never has it been so important for museums to prove themselves popular . |
| 17 | But it is still important for amateurs to prove themselves before turning pro , claims former Irish Amateur Champion McGinley . |
| 18 | A court would , I submit , be slow to find liable a doctor who merely facilitated the self-determination of someone unable through illness to help himself . |
| 19 | In fact , if you value your domestic happiness , it might be advisable for Jenny to absent herself during my visit , as I am , in fact , I regret to say , irresistible to all women . |
| 20 | ‘ Of course not , ’ he had replied , happy for Susan to enjoy herself . |
| 21 | I said at the beginning , when I talked about the woman at the pool , that ‘ the essence of her charm , independent of time revealed itself for a second in that gesture and dazzled me . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Crowded beaches , full of families sunning themselves . |
| 23 | Now , as a simple equation , me committing myself to God , is incomparable to God committing himself to me ! |
| 24 | If British consumers fail to buy the new models , European Community-devised satellite broadcasting norms could mean millions of viewers finding themselves watching a distorted picture , or being forced to buy a decoder costing up to £200 . |
| 25 | ‘ Rock faces were being eroded and plants that had taken millions of years to establish themselves were being destroyed almost literally overnight , ’ the fount of wisdom continues . |
| 26 | Certainly they conceded that these activities were popular in the sense that millions of people availed themselves of them but their argument had been that only in a very limited way can we talk of these activities as belonging to the masses : rather they represented the expropriation and packaging of what had previously been popular forms by middle-class organizations and in most cases by businessmen and entrepreneurs . |
| 27 | Duncan 's account is , in fact , a not unsympathetic one of Eliot punishing himself , denying himself the small pleasures or luxuries which someone of his wealth and distinction could have enjoyed : " He always took his wine flavoured with guilt " . |
| 28 | The atmosphere was one of people enjoying themselves in their own way and allowing everyone else to do so too . |
| 29 | But until preventive medicine becomes cheaper and more readily available , most of us must rely on our own common sense and on the reliable information which is available in order to keep ourselves running smoothly . |
| 30 | What Benjamin means by ‘ aura ’ or ‘ auratic art ’ is very much what Weber meant by the aesthetic in modernity constituting itself as a separate value sphere . |