Example sentences of "[be] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We are ourselves a major source of the moisture in the air inside our homes .
2 They were hardly his own yet sprang from his heart as though , in those exalted moments , it were itself a living vessel of the Christmas mystery .
3 2 Within the system of government , the increased numbers of bureaucrats and officials involved in welfare and public-service provision were themselves a powerful lobby for more state activity .
4 This is a crucial stage of development from that in which — in the earlier stages substantially , in the later stages residually — artists were themselves a specific form of social organization .
5 In addition the closeness of the alliance and the sheer multiplicity of contacts were themselves a major cause of ill-feeling — as in a family .
6 ‘ But the Dharjees were once members of the Nizari Ismailis , who are themselves a breakaway sect of the Shiite Muslims .
7 Synthetic data which are themselves a GIS-derived product may be the most difficult to deal with .
8 Lemmas 1 and 2 tell us that the semantic values of the elements of unc are themselves a directed set under
9 Clearly there can be no reason why one should not be a feminist and a religious person , in the sense in which I am myself a religious person .
10 Thus has come about the present status of evolution of which man is the apparent culmination but not the real summit ; for he is himself a transitional being and stands at the turning point of the whole movement . ’
11 Neil , as it happens , is himself a committed Scot , but the Scottish-based executives say that it is not the current incumbent of that post , but the fact that the regional directorate enjoys ultimate power of veto which worries them .
12 The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection .
13 The former is itself a fascinating tale that will surely be told in full elsewhere , of how interested parties helped to orchestrate the episode and stimulate financial investments in ways that have been widely criticised in the scientific community .
14 It has been pointed out that the location of those markets is itself a telling advantage to Scottish traders because they all have weak currencies ( the lira and peseta ) while former German and Dutch suppliers are forced to trade with the strongest ( the deutschmark and the guilder ) .
15 Despite this caveat , however , the frequency with which images of health , construction and " the growth of the new man " in the Soviet Union are contrasted with images of sickness , decay and decline in the capitalist West is itself a telling statement on the intellectual climate of the time .
16 The counter-move to such complaints is to say that the concept of lucidity is itself repressive , and that unravelling Derrida 's meanings is itself a deconstructive act , directed against hegemonic ideological positions .
17 At the same time the adrenalin surge is itself a strong feeling and any strong feeling can be a trigger factor in stimulating the urge to use other mood-altering substances or processes — It is therefore advisable for people in recovery from any form of addictive disease that they should avoid gambling and other forms of risk-taking as far as possible .
18 The concept of the individual actor is itself a political construction , highly charged and central to much western political practice ; it can be used , for instance , to give the impression that ‘ choice ’ is being exercised when analysis of the deeper political and economic structures would indicate that there is no real choice .
19 Whether pupils ' behaviour is itself a political statement or not , the aggressive forms impress themselves onto educational politics .
20 This documentation is itself a rich source of material for evaluation .
21 The duty to compensate the defamed person is itself a moral duty .
22 A UK parent company with wholly-owned subsidiaries is itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of a US parent company whose securities are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission .
23 The adaptation of linguistic terms like mood and of rhetorical terms like ellipsis is not so much designed to construct rigid parallels either with language or with rhetoric , but rather is itself a rhetorical device for freeing narrative from any referential interpretation .
24 Mr Mellor is no soft touch , as those within the industry who had to negotiate with him quickly discovered , but he is accessible to reason , and that is itself a great advance on what had been experienced before .
25 This is not to suggest that such observation is itself a straightforward method of investigation .
26 How much longer such presentation remains credible in the light of trends in cities such as New York , where there are at least 90,000 people sleeping on the streets and an annual budget deficit of around $500 million is itself a significant issue .
27 Weight loss is itself a rewarding consequence , but because you need to lose a fair amount of weight before it is really noticeable in terms of body shape , you will probably require extra rewards to keep you going .
28 When I obey or defy ‘ Face facts ’ , my welcoming or resisting of the facts is itself a psychological process in causal interaction with spontaneous inclination ; on the one hand emotional bias distorts judgement , on the other desire or aversion veers with additional information .
29 I hope I have made it clear now that although ( 1 ) to ( 5 ) are basically the same structure , each modification is itself a sufficient change to make it a different kind of game — and thus the experience is a different one according to which is chosen ( either by the teacher or the participants themselves ) .
30 Resolving the question as to what are to be perceived as such costs and benefits is itself a hard task .
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