Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Carbon monoxide attaches itself to haemoglobin much more easily than oxygen does . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The ‘ Bantustan effect ’ is a system by which a developed and dominating core area surrounds itself by poor and backward ‘ sovereign ’ states . |
| 5 | The agnostic 42-year-old former drama teacher describes himself as ‘ a teller of tales , stories and elaborate lies ’ . |
| 6 | And today THE 1 FM ROADSHOW excels itself with Chris De Burgh in Bude . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Board of Banking Supervision concerns itself with three issues : |
| 10 | The silk moth caterpillar surrounds itself with a fuzzy bundle of threads , the moon moth constructs a cocoon with a silvery metallic sheen , the ermine moth builds an elegant casket of lacy net . |
| 11 | More than most things , lung area lends itself to gradual , step-by-step change , all the way from 0 square yards up to 70 square yards . |
| 12 | Thus , the chronic 20 cigarette a day smoker exposes himself to regular falls in gastric secretion associated with each cigarette smoked . |
| 13 | The sublime back section merges itself with the boisterous front and all is similar . |
| 14 | Cinema manager grooms himself before the main feature |
| 15 | Use of trade exhibitions is on the increase and firms increasingly need to establish a more scientific method of managing this function as it requires an understanding of how an exhibition stand communicates itself to the public . |
| 16 | The word consultant lends itself to a very wide interpretation and many food service operators , and particularly hotel operators , believe they are all capable of being food service consultants . |
| 17 | The Earth 's magnetic flux is , therefore , from Antartica to the Arctic and a compass needle aligns itself with this . |
| 18 | PC World regards itself as a computer specialist , claiming to be the largest supplier of computer products in Europe . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend would then understandably say , ’ How does it come about , then , that North Devon health authority finds itself in the position that it does on this referral ? ’ |
| 20 | Whereas wildlife conservation lends itself to a science-based approach , this is not really possible for landscape conservation , or the improvement of public access to the countryside . |
| 21 | The Vale Rescue Centre prides itself on releasing nine out of every ten animals back into the wild . |
| 22 | The woman who sells you a ticket at the bus office crosses herself for you as she makes it out . |
| 23 | ( Later in the same version of the myth Attis castrates himself under a pine tree . |
| 24 | Balinese life fits itself around the demands of tourism . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Years later family history repeats itself with Eve 's daughters , by which time Dolly has forsaken the screen and gone into the fancy confectionery trade . |
| 27 | The criminal justice system projects itself above social conflicts and expects to be recognized as fair and just because it is guided by universal principles that transcend sectional interests . |