Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it also happens that in the organization of recorded knowledge for retrieval the profession of librarianship finds itself at an interesting point of crisis . |
| 2 | On the other hand , a court of equity addresses itself to the amount of costs that the mortgagee should be allowed as a condition of redemption . |
| 3 | The latter type of fuel lends itself to underwater storage for several decades . |
| 4 | Like many areas of sociology , the sociology of punishment lends itself to ( often radically ) differing approaches which provide rival explanations of penality . |
| 5 | Women compositors did not want equal pay , she wrote , for no girl of sense puts herself on the level of a comp all round but if the division of labour assigns her a task she can perform , what reason is there she should not do so ? |
| 6 | Thus culture at some level of awareness asserts itself to be not only distinct from but superior to nature , and that sense of distinctiveness and superiority rests precisely on the ability to transform — to ‘ socialize' ’ and ‘ ‘ culturalize' ’ — nature' , i.e. to be active and in control . |
| 7 | Eventually a time of fish will be landed so the intricate work of life moves itself into the most unlikely corners of our power stations . |
| 8 | The transformation is made up of spiritual , intellectual and emotional elements which grow together into an autonomous state of mind : Sooner or later this attitude of autonomy expresses itself in doubt . |
| 9 | The EXAFS for Si in glass reveals itself as the ‘ wiggles ’ following the absorption threshold , seen clearly in Figure 2. the case for the application of EXAFS to glass is overwhelming . |
| 10 | This variation in form manifests itself in different ways , depending on the language . |
| 11 | And that in fact lends itself to be to a new settlement being assimilated into the landscape completely in accord with the criterion of H two . |
| 12 | The extension of the image in time lends itself to distortion by running the camera faster or slower than 24 fps ( or even backwards , as with the reversed slap across the face in Truffaut 's wonderful film about film making , Day for Night , 1973 ) . |
| 13 | A book on composition bases itself on the assumption that the reader is already familiar with conventional harmonic principles . |