Example sentences of "[be] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are many people who would not find it fulfilling to be themselves at any cost and at the expense of another . |
| 2 | In the cities , where competition is intense , to be seen to be involved with clients at the top of the commercial ( and to a lesser degree social ) tree , publicity will take very different forms , but whether it comprises the full page recruitment advertisement or a high ranking in some statistical table devised by the editors of a legal journal , a bigger than average spread in a legal directory or an article by one of its partners explaining some development unique to the firm , the message will be the same : we are professional people of the highest calibre who run their practice efficiently and with success ; we have earned the respect of our fellow professionals and the esteem of our clients who are themselves of comparable stature to ourselves . |
| 3 | A third voice , represented by normal type and placed in the conventional part of the page , is itself like another ritual , a fact emphasized by the incantatory effect of semantic and lexical patterning in the repeated , only slightly varied form , |
| 4 | Of course , not all operas are ideally suited to such treatment , but Karajan s stage productions tended to centre on repertoire that is itself within this tradition of the Gesamtkunstwerk : above all , the works of Wagner , Richard Strauss , Debussy , certain Puccini operas , and , perhaps more controversially , Verdi . |
| 5 | He came from a long-lived line and was himself in rude health . |
| 6 | Some writers suggest that reduced participation in work was encouraged by Victorian moralists through an idealization of the role of the home , while others saw that in the early twentieth century ‘ the development of separate suburban environments in the maturing industrial/commercial city was itself of crucial importance in the establishment of the home as a separate sphere and in the enforcement of the social definition of a woman 's place as being in the home ’ ( Mackenzie and Rose , 1983 , 169 ) . |