Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MR JOHN BROWNE , former Conservative MP for Winchester , who was ousted by his party and is now running against the Conservative candidate , is circulating election literature describing himself as the ‘ Conservative ’ and telling unsuspecting Tories not to ‘ split the vote ’ , writes Robert Shrimsley . |
| 2 | According to the 1984 LFS rather over 6 per cent of the labour force considered themselves to be working on a temporary basis . |
| 3 | Marxist arguments support this view , pointing out that cheap housing reduces the pressure on wages , allowing the labour force to reproduce itself despite low wages and in this way contributing to capital accumulation in the capitalist sector . |
| 4 | With that strength of support coming from far and near , the South Ronaldsay Parents Action Committee launched itself into the mammoth task it faced . |
| 5 | At the start of your diving day , just press the face button once and watch the bar graph around the perimeter of the display countdown while the DataMax Sport zeroes itself to your current altitude , checks all internal functions and battery power . |
| 6 | Carbon monoxide attaches itself to haemoglobin much more easily than oxygen does . |
| 7 | In the 20 years since the National Jazz , Blues And Rock Festival relocated itself from sleepy London toff suburb , Richmond , to its present Thames Valley site , the Reading Festival has become the premier rock gig . |
| 8 | I was crouched in the tin bath soaping myself in front of the range . |
| 9 | But relations between the quiet , let's-get-on-with-it Cooder and the not entirely sane Captain proved too much of a strain , and after this brief walk on the wild side Ry immersed himself in session work — much of it bread-and-butter stuff , although he did play for Randy Newman and Phil Ochs , began to learn about music for films , and became a friend of The Stones , a period he does not generally discuss . |
| 10 | If there were to be nightmares , she could not control that ; but she would not waste her waking time frightening herself with a terror which was past . |
| 11 | You invest in the equity market to provide yourself with a stream of future dividends which will hopefully outpace inflation . |
| 12 | In the twentieth century increasingly it has become possible for older people who have withdrawn from the labour market to support themselves from resources provided by the state rather than rely on their families ; the same has not been true of the youngest generation . |
| 13 | A proportion of the flights on each main operating base maintain themselves at ‘ quick reaction alert ’ ( QRA ) status , ready to move out at a moment 's notice . |
| 14 | The most dramatic development of the last quarter of a century has been the emergence of the urban-rural shift as a major factor in population redistribution , but in the late 1970s and early 1980s its strength waned somewhat , as too did the pace of local decentralization , whereas the North-South divide reasserted itself at this time after a period of lower significance . |
| 15 | The headline in the London Evening Standard 's report — I 'm sorry , says man on murder charge — was transformed the next day into the more familiar story of girl hitch-hiker getting herself into trouble . |
| 16 | Child labour recommended themselves to the early factory masters not only because it was cheap but also because it avoided dependence on adult labour whose traditional work habits were too deeply ingrained . |
| 17 | Overall , at the end of the trial , 20% of the fluticasone propionate group considered themselves in complete remission , compared with 39% of the prednisolone group ( p=0.003 ) . |
| 18 | What really matters at the moment is that the rugby pot keeps itself on the boil , so that it wo n't need too much of a boost from the fickle flames of European International rugby , when it returns in the New Year , to reactivate the interest of the casual followers uncovered by the World Cup . |
| 19 | The ‘ Bantustan effect ’ is a system by which a developed and dominating core area surrounds itself by poor and backward ‘ sovereign ’ states . |
| 20 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 21 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 22 | The door of the room opened a little way and a large tabby cat insinuated itself through the gap . |
| 23 | The agnostic 42-year-old former drama teacher describes himself as ‘ a teller of tales , stories and elaborate lies ’ . |
| 24 | They included : the need for international and regional supervision of a ceasefire ; proper political guarantees for the guerrillas ; an end to guerrilla attacks on the civilian population and on the economic infrastructure ; the need for the business community to commit itself to the peace process ; presentation by the government of the Second Geneva Protocol to Congress ; and the continued existence of the Advisory Commission on Public Order . |
| 25 | And today THE 1 FM ROADSHOW excels itself with Chris De Burgh in Bude . |
| 26 | The ‘ new approach ’ Community legislation limits itself to setting the essential or basic standards and the detailed specifications that implement these standards are delegated to relevant European Standardisation bodies such as CEN ( European Committee for Standardisation ) or sectoral bodies as , for example , CENELEC ( European Committee for Electro-Techinal Standardisation ) for the building and electrical industry and ETSI ( European Telecommunications Standards Institute ) for telecommunications standards . |
| 27 | Finally , Dina Vierny is showing self portraits by Vladimir Yankilevski , in all of which the Muscovite artist depicts himself in profile , among fragments of superimposed surfaces . |
| 28 | What the participants in this group discussion saw themselves as doing was working to make sure that their children could hope for a better life . |
| 29 | FIREMEN called to a chimney blaze found themselves at boss Jeffrey Ord 's home at Alnwick , Northumberland . |
| 30 | Like Michael Jackson , Madonna and George Michael before her , Kylie chose the world 's second most important pop market to launch herself on a planet desperate to see her perform . |