Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was pointed out that the modular nature of the new advanced provision lends itself to students choosing groups of units which , although having vocational relevance for the individual or a particular employer , do not satisfy the criteria for an existing HNC or HND . |
| 2 | ‘ What infinite variety presents itself in this enchanting spot , ’ wrote Abbot in his diary on first seeing it . |
| 3 | Confronted with the crass sexual exploitation of mainstream pop , alternative British rock shrouds itself in shapeless jumpers and stares heavenwards . |
| 4 | A 16-year-old girl works herself into a frenzy of grief for a friend killed by right-wing vigilantes . |
| 5 | The methodological criterion on which our own study must be based is the following ; that the supremacy of a social group manifests itself in two ways , as ‘ domination ’ and as ‘ intellectual and moral leadership ’ . |
| 6 | As my right hon. Friend prepares himself for the important meeting with President Yeltsin later this week in London , will he take the opportunity of seeing what can be done to deal with the massive threat which still exists from all the different independent Russian states ? |
| 7 | What matters is not whether the human psyche is in itself constructed in grammatical terms ( as Noam Chomsky has suggested ) , but that social behaviour lends itself to analysis in broadly linguistic terms . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman excites himself without cause . |
| 9 | But primitive man guards himself against that by listening in to the being of the person who is uttering the words and by adding this to his evaluation of the words . |
| 10 | Here I lie on this crimson equatorial shore , far from where the great electronic city dissolves itself under its own photochemical smogs . |
| 11 | Direct Line prides itself on responding to 90% of enquiries within 10 seconds . |
| 12 | A semantic net lends itself to graphic display , and its meaning tends to be intuitively , if not formally , clear . |
| 13 | Eventually this dear girl gets herself off the cash desk right and where does she find them ? |
| 14 | Yet each individual bout articulates itself within the framework of the history of boxing , known and unknown . |
| 15 | The effect of Lenin 's strategy , he warned , would be that the party substitutes itself for the class , ‘ the party organization substitutes itself for the party , the Central Committee substitutes itself for the organization and , finally , a ‘ dictator ’ substitutes himself for the Central Committee ’ . |
| 16 | There was a lot of closed , closed questions , remember that , the actual page lends itself to it er well |
| 17 | Much of the overall improvement owes itself to improving fertilizer prices and better productivity . |
| 18 | This conflictive relationship between popular culture and official culture manifests itself in Augusto Roa Bastos 's Son of Man , in the life-sized figure of Christ carved by a leper , which , despite the disapproval of the ecclesiastical authorities , is venerated by the townsfolk of Itapé in preference to the stylized crucifix in the local church . |
| 19 | What we see here is some of the work which backs up her important argument ( published elsewhere ) that the popular and fragmented nature of postmodern culture yields itself to a more positive interpretation than most of the pessimistic ( and male ) theorists of postmodernism would have us believe . |
| 20 | But later in life Augustine declared : ‘ He therefore who refuses to obey the imperial laws , when made against the truth of God acquires a great reward , he who refuses to obey when they are made for the support of the divine truth exposes himself to most grievous punishment . ’ |
| 21 | Figure 7.6 A territorial rufous humming-bird weighs itself by perching on a spring balance . |
| 22 | One waxed jacket detaches himself from the group and approaches a lone drinker across the bar . |
| 23 | While you may gain from a long overdue cheque , you 'll lose out again when a rather large bill presents itself for payment . |
| 24 | This moving image manifests itself in the motions of the heavenly bodies . |
| 25 | And yet she was aware of something lovely somewhere , something that was gone , or hidden , or yet to be attained : she supposed her therapist would say that this unrealistic shard of broken vision dated back to her infancy , when the human animal believes itself to be omnipotent , immortal and an integral part of all that is . |
| 26 | AS THE Labour leadership congratulates itself on a virtually unprecedented exhibition of unity and moderation , they should be aware that knives are being sharpened at Conservative Central Office . |
| 27 | The budding Academy sees itself as an alternative to established institutions such as Berlin 's Akademie der Künste whose ongoing merger of the West and East branches , beset by political wrangling , has alienated many artists ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.3 ) . |
| 28 | The budding Academy sees itself as an alternative to established institutions such as Berlin 's Akademie der Künste whose ongoing merger of the West and East branches , beset by political wrangling , has alienated many artists ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.3 ) . |
| 29 | Mental impairment demonstrates itself in loss of memory for recent events , and in behavioural , cognitive and emotional change , so that the previous personality is gradually eroded . |
| 30 | Institutionalised racism manifests itself in insensitive service provision in health and social services , with barriers around language , the pattern of family names and vocabulary . |