Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] and [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That since we have realised the position of women in the printing trade is seriously threatened , we women have been trying to organise ourselves with a view to securing justice for ourselves and for the women who may in future desire to practise the business of compositors or monotypists . |
| 2 | Man is endowed with an insatiable curiosity about himself and about the world around him , in his perception of which his own nature finds its reflection . |
| 3 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 4 | But Rodrigo ordered a bed to be made ready for himself and for the leper , and they twain slept together . |
| 5 | What is , what is happening at the moment is although they ca n't afford the money for the full , for the full treatment they are making an allocation of money to improve matters round , round that area , which will be er , cos I , I told them that some of the pensioners were , w walking round by the bankment , it 's pouring of rain , which is perfectly true and that er the engineer should go round and see for himself and plus the fact how many of these people ever travel by bus , or do they always go by car , no , and also I brought up about bus shelters and all those sort of things , but any way , there will be some improvements for the bus station in the future . |
| 6 | To sum up what I have outlined so far , the view of Wimsatt and Brooks is that the essential property of poetry consists in the reconciliation of harmonization of opposites ; that this takes the form of an objective organization of the objective meanings of words ; and that although the same organization generally can not be found in other kinds of discourse , it nonetheless contributes to our knowledge and experience of ourselves and of the world . |
| 7 | Now we had no doubt about the inclusion of Charles Darwin 's centenary in this series at this point ; certainly one of the half dozen most influential figures of the modern world , in reshaping our perceptions of ourselves and of the rest of the world . |
| 8 | Neither is it necessary to have what is known as a ‘ spiritual experience ’ — a single moment in time when the individual has a sense of himself and of the world in a way which transcends both the physical and the psychological . |
| 9 | Such recall led the individual to a deeper understanding of himself and of the traumatic effect on his life of the hitherto ‘ forgotten ’ incidents . |
| 10 | The ensuing " false " enquiry is itself underwritten by one global assumption of both a teleological and ideological nature ; the belief that the truth of Nizan 's contingent existence is most effectively disclosed by locating the significance of his insertion within the French communist party ; that is to say , the reasons why he joined the party , the image that he created of himself and of the party whilst he was a member , and the reasons why he left the party . |
| 11 | The poem , of epic proportions , illuminates the way in which Will arrives at such " kynde knowynge " which embraces both knowledge of himself and of the love of God . |
| 12 | Griffith was seduced by his own myth of himself and by the preoccupations of the Progressive era into believing that he was a serious thinker , whereas in truth he was an old-fashioned story-teller who had spontaneously discovered how the technology of film could be used to give stories a tremendous power . |
| 13 | The glass was spotted and discoloured now , and in its depths Louise saw only a sepia-tinted reproduction of herself and of the room behind her . |
| 14 | The National Portrait Gallery habitually commissions portraits of notable figures for its collection , and , of course , members of the Royal Family are painted regularly , providing a time-lapse documentary of themselves and of the fashions of their age , both in clothes and in painting . |
| 15 | The papers by Christoph Sauer and Kiernan Ryan are both concerned with the way in which language can be used to influence people 's conceptions of themselves and of the socio-political environment they live in , as well as to condition and constrain their behaviour . |
| 16 | The present American tendency is to ask what a country can now do for itself and for the United States , not what it might do in other circumstances , nor yet what it deserves . |
| 17 | Now I want to allow a bit more time for questions so I 'll just end if I may with a funny story which , did n't happen to me , it happened to a colleague of mine , erm a young lady , who went to give er a talk like this to group of adults like yourselves and at the end of the meeting the treasurer went up to her and said do we owe you any fee or expenses ? |
| 18 | Their behaviour and achievements are observed and discussed amongst themselves and with the analyst ( Fig. 1.29 ) . |
| 19 | Well we are we like doing the videos because er in the early days we had a lot of problems I suppose with ourselves and with the video people because they had planned ideas for the songs . |
| 20 | Then , at Imola , Niki again failed to finish — he was , I recall , disgusted with himself and with the engine , which was still having some teething problems — and Prost won . |
| 21 | It is believed that this force is carried by another spin-I particle , called the gluon , which interacts only with itself and with the quarks . |
| 22 | Aboriginal life was once in balance with itself and with the world . |
| 23 | If it does n't work I know now I can re-establish things with myself and with the kids . |
| 24 | Light and dark imagery represent the opposites life and death as the imagery gets darker while the poet gets closer to death both in himself and in the poem . |
| 25 | Like a chain reaction , such suspicions quickly breed upon themselves and in the convoluted world of intelligence find ready ears because there is always someone willing to denigrate another person 's opinions . |
| 26 | It did improve the image and it it improved people 's confidence I think in themselves and in the area . |
| 27 | The virtues the knights seek to develop , both in themselves and in the world , are always under assault . |
| 28 | Here , I can only think that he was saying , ‘ well , we do n't know that there 's the full authority of the city council in this view ’ , but erm I 'm not going to put up a defence , I just think that what we do is basically stress from yourself and from the chief officer that we do want this file known . |
| 29 | We are sure that the exercise will prove beneficial both to ourselves and to the individuals who undertake the unit . |
| 30 | It 's true that that is a common feature really from the time of for the last five hundred million years , from the time of the earliest fish to ourselves and to the birds and everybody else , but it 's like that not because there is some kind of profound law of form , which says that 's the kind of organism which is in permitted by the laws of development to arise , erm I mean the law form would be something like erm a law of physics which says that if objects move round the sun they 're going to do so in ellipses with the sun at one focus . |