Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As W S Steer pointed out , ‘ … the department which prides itself on never making a mistake is almost certainly grossly overstaffed ’ ( Wiseman 1970:87 ) . |
| 2 | In an institution which prides itself on keeping politicians at arm 's length ( a rare achievement in Italy ) , Mr Dini 's contacts with the former government of Giulio Andreotti were unpopular . |
| 3 | By its very nature the trial is a passive form of review which confines itself to an examination of the finished product of the police investigation . |
| 4 | Any chick who fancies herself as a feminist ought to go and see Martha McGilchrist . |
| 5 | ‘ Not so , ’ replies the university ; ‘ give if you will ; withhold if you must but understand if you can what nature of community we are and do not deprive us of our freedom , the freedom to pursue , and to teach others to pursue , knowledge for its own sake in whatever guise it presents itself to us ; for that is of our very essence. , |
| 6 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 7 | The racism which manifests itself in employment is only one , albeit crucial , part of the general experience of discrimination and subordination that black people have had to confront in Britain . |
| 8 | One does come across entrepreneurial academics , but there is still something slightly suspect in the academic world about making , as distinct from earning , money which manifests itself in the grey area of consultancy . |
| 9 | There is also a sizeable literature on explaining the size distribution of income which concerns itself with the specific shape this takes ( positively skewed ( right-hand tail ) and leptokurtic ( hump-shaped ) or leptokurtic lognormal ) , both over different time periods and in different countries . |
| 10 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |
| 11 | ‘ The manufacture which forces itself upon a stranger 's eye is that of knit-stockings , on which the women of the lower class are visibly employed . ’ |
| 12 | Of course , this is not all there is to life , and Hildamay finds true contentment by adopting a nine-year-old girl who introduces herself on the tube . |
| 13 | Alice in Wonderland is a text adventure game based on the very famous story 2f a young girl who finds herself in a strange land full of strange creatures and strange places . |
| 14 | No wonder they keeps themselves to themselves . |
| 15 | On the basis of this identification he feels himself to be a defender of the ‘ national heritage ’ of the nation' . |
| 16 | From sand he pours himself into deep water , |
| 17 | In modern clinical psychoanalysis it manifests itself as that part of the ego which represents a critical self-awareness which is both censorious and exhortatory , being the representative of standards , ideals , commands and prohibitions . |
| 18 | The god of Creation in Aboriginal legend ; known as Yulunggu , he appears as a rainbow snake who arches himself across the sky early in the rainy season . |
| 19 | As the superintendent cut her way through the herd of lunchtime drinkers , Dexter followed in her wake , like a driver who glues himself to the back of an ambulance careering through busy streets on an emergency call . |
| 20 | A group which perpetuates itself by endogamous sexual reproduction usually has some perception of ethnic identity . |
| 21 | The point is that black people are not only at a disadvantage in the job market on account of their colour , they also perceive sharply that this is so and , despite Johnson 's tongue-in-cheek addendum , the consciousness of belonging to a group which feels itself to be at a disadvantage is clear enough . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 23 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 24 | A contributor to the Funeral Service Journal who declares himself to be ‘ a devoted and qualified embalmer and tutor ’ is a funeral director who has recently been giving advice to readers . |
| 25 | This problem faced by the teacher who sees himself as deliverer of prepacked information is admirably expressed by Caldwell Cook , who worked in the Perse School , Cambridge . |
| 26 | The determination and effective preparedness of the nuclear powers to mount an instant all-out nuclear counter-strike the moment it perceives itself to be under nuclear attack must be condemned as an illegitimate threat of force , and is rightly so condemned by the world 's peace movement . |
| 27 | A judgement that an action is morally good is universalizable in the sense that by making such a judgement one commits oneself to holding that any relevantly similar action is morally good . |
| 28 | In the second case one identifies oneself with the worst aspects of the society . |
| 29 | Thus , anger may militate against sexual satisfaction in oneself or prevent one 's allowing satisfaction to a partner by its own effect ; or the guilt underlying anger may similarly impede love-making/relationships ; or sexual pleasure may promote guilt which evinces itself as anger which … |
| 30 | The law of contempt is a doctrine of wide scope which manifests itself in a variety of types of contempt . |