Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it can not be known as a concept that will realize itself in the future , Sartre argues instead that the totality only produces itself in the moment : ‘ The incarnation as such is at once unrealizable except as totalization of everything and irreducible to a pure abstract unity of that which it totalizes ’ ( II , 58 ) . |
| 2 | Such a picture of the mind naturally lends itself to a James-type account of the localisation of bodily sensations : if the mind has its ‘ seat ’ in the head , and sensations are in the mind , then what appears to be the directly-kno-wn location of the sensation must really be the indirectly-known location of the source of the sensation . |
| 3 | But the mind always expresses itself through the body , consciously or unconsciously , just as it does in humans . |
| 4 | This high degree of concentration also manifests itself at the most localized scales . |
| 5 | It helps to create a pattern in the subconscious mind so that , as you go about your routine actions , the mind automatically prepares itself for sleep . |
| 6 | Given the environmental problems facing corporations and the preparedness of executives and officials unhindered by moral or ethical constraints to find ‘ rational ’ solutions , an operative criterion frequently forces itself into their consciousness — ‘ will it pay ’ ( and in whispered voices ) ‘ even though it is technically illegal ? ’ |
| 7 | As a style , modernism visibly lends itself to this appropriation . |
| 8 | The ethos of the force therefore lends itself to gender differences in police work , and so popular are beliefs about the different capabilities of policemen and women , that some policemen shy away from handling these sorts of cases on the view that they are less able than women colleagues , and many policewomen adopt these notions as self-typifications . |
| 9 | Because the terrain so lends itself to visual spectacle , the grand prix races draw crowds from Vienna , Salzburg and Innsbruck like no other . |
| 10 | This question really resolves itself into a very specific one , which is this : How do individuals of subsequent generations ‘ inherit ’ the primal trauma and its consequences ? |
| 11 | The electron now finds itself outside an electrically neutral system , namely the positive proton and the close-in negative muon ; the electron escapes and where once was a hydrogen atom is now muonic hydrogen . |
| 12 | Thus accommodation here is fresh and modern , and the management now prides itself on offering the most comfortable of stylish , up-to-date amenities . |
| 13 | In other words , conscience begins to have marked effect , as the attitudes and strictures of which the child has bad experience during its upbringing are supported or modified by the beginnings of life within society , and is built into the sexual persona of the boy or girl ( increasingly meaningful terms at this stage ) which the child now finds itself to be . |
| 14 | In practice the question therefore resolves itself into : Has there been enough time for enough successive generations ? |
| 15 | Design 's effective denial of a social formative or linguistic-representational function further isolates itself from the academies traditionally orientated towards understanding and valuing these . |
| 16 | Your intervention clearly implicates myself in the charge you make of ‘ defeatist talk ’ about the scientific connection between material deprivation and premature death . |
| 17 | The latter assertion represents no more than a pious belief , since Sukenick 's text repeatedly fragments itself into short phrasal units , disparate narrative strands , and oddly shifting ‘ characters ’ . |
| 18 | Role play also lends itself to every aspect of language work , including structures , lexis , functions , intonation patterns , and register . |
| 19 | This moral underlay even shows itself in the fervour and intensity with which relativists dismiss those who disagree with them as " dogmatic " . |
| 20 | St William 's Foundation here offers itself as latter-day deus ex machina . |
| 21 | The rotor then finds itself in advance of the instantaneous equilibrium position and the motor is able to produce the negative decelerating torque . |
| 22 | To my personal embarrassment to the extent that I was a party to the majority of the decisions to which I have referred , I have to say that I think that this court again finds itself in the same position . |
| 23 | Stainless steel also lends itself to this modern form of finish . |
| 24 | For reasons to be examined below this belief commonly expresses itself in a belief in a defeasible obligation to obey the law . |
| 25 | In the company of work on offer here , the woman artist still finds herself on the defensive though she is laudably engaged in what Roberta Smith calls , the creation of ‘ a new kind of aesthetic back-talk ’ . |
| 26 | Brooke-Rose 's novel implicitly presents itself as a ‘ pseudo ’ or partial version of the ‘ reality ’ beyond . |
| 27 | While the male of one of these species constructs the nest alone ( as in other weavers ) , in others the female also involves herself in this activity and in two cases receives the active assistance of additional apparently adult birds . |
| 28 | A disturbed situation also reveals itself in the south-east . |
| 29 | At the same time , by refusing to adopt a material ought , normative positivism radically separates itself from any suggestion that there is a necessary connection between law and any critical morality . |
| 30 | As in woman-centred feminism generally , woman-centred psychology often defends itself as an effective , rather than a theoretically rigorous , means of resistance , and makes theory a utilitarian adjunct to this aim . |