Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand medicine is seen as a body of scientific knowledge and as a set of techniques , for which the GP feels himself to be relatively poorly equipped . |
| 2 | Inside , the heart repeats itself like a sleepy gong , |
| 3 | Corporate sailing , either as a training exercise , a reward , or just because the chairman fancies himself as Captain Bligh , is a fast growing business . |
| 4 | The bit anchors itself in one of two ways . |
| 5 | The male positions himself at the edge of the nest and fires a rapid succession of water droplets one to two inches out of the water and onto the nest itself to possibly agitate the eggs for recognition purposes . |
| 6 | The male places himself behind the female and pecks at her cloaca . |
| 7 | The male busies himself with placing the eggs in a nest , and when this is complete , the ritual can begin again . |
| 8 | The story concerns itself with those negotiations . |
| 9 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |
| 10 | As they mature , they migrate to the skin surface — the skin renews itself about every 28 days . |
| 11 | Though one is lost and another damaged , the survivor is sent off into space with the forest when the scientist destroys himself with his ship to conceal the fact that the forest still exists . |
| 12 | When Goethe , in a scene of Faust I written in Rome , evokes the travail of modern man and shows it being assuaged by the contemplation of the " silver figures of the ancient world " ( der Vorwelt silberne Gestalten ) these shapes are the ideal models of Greek man which Winckelmann had set up in his historico-aesthetic studies ; and when , in his " classical " drama Iphigenia in Tauris , Goethe 's fervent heroine is eventually victorious and the play resolves itself into a serene and harmonious close , it is the spirit of Winckelmann that triumphs . |
| 13 | The curriculum justifies itself by saying that unless teachers deliberately introduce the subject of homosexuality to the classroom it would be unlikely ever to arise among the children themselves . |
| 14 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 15 | We use the words in the sense of a psychic process by which the mind protects itself from undue or unbearable pain , anxiety or conflict . |
| 16 | However , as one of the main findings of this research was that arts educators were not aware of recent changes in modes adopted to undertake professional development generally , the first part of the chapter concerns itself with a review of this issue , exemplars being drawn from arts education where these are available . |
| 17 | The President feels himself in a state of siege . |
| 18 | The reformulated law makes it plain that an offence is committed if the defendant conducts himself in a way that causes his victim to anticipate that the defendant is about to use unlawful violence . |
| 19 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 20 | Though still blind and naked , the chick manoeuvres itself inside the nest until an egg is lodged between its back and the side of the nest . |
| 21 | In many of these sonnets the poet accuses himself of a gross failure in judgement in having formed a relationship with this woman . |
| 22 | While John the Divine describes himself to the seven churches in Asia as your partner in patiently enduring the suffering that comes to those who belong to his Kingdom ’ ( Rev. 1:9 ) . |
| 23 | The management prides itself on the true Italian-style home cooking served in the dining-room , and the excellent roof-top terrace affords beautiful views over Sorrento and the Gulf of Naples . |
| 24 | There is a wide choice of dinner menu and the management prides itself on offering service of a fine standard . |
| 25 | The management prides itself on attention to detail and offers a bar and a dining-room which extends onto a large verandah with beautiful views . |
| 26 | The management prides itself on offering excellent service at all levels , with a strong emphasis placed on giving guests individual , personal attention . |
| 27 | Offering a quite unique complex for Tuscany , the management prides itself on its attention to detail and its demands for high quality food and accommodation . |
| 28 | The management prides itself on offering comfortable accommodation in elegant surroundings , and puts an emphasis on providing excellent service . |
| 29 | This intimate family hotel offers a warm welcome to a homely atmosphere and the management prides itself on offering a choice of good local cooking in its dining-room . |
| 30 | This is a family-run hotel and the management prides itself on the fact that Citalia guests have always received a warm welcome . |