Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could abandon its isolation and make deals with other parties — in which case it would contradict its own anti-party rhetoric and make itself indistinguishable from other parties . |
| 2 | The implications are depressingly apparent in a study by Roberta Steinbacher and Helen B. Holmes which shows that young North American men and women who consider themselves sensitive to female inequality , would still choose to have male babies , at least as a first choice if sex-predetermination or sex determination with IVF would allow prospective parents in Western countries the opportunity to choose a preferred sex without the stigma that would be attached to using selective abortion . |
| 3 | I think even Control Room where at one stage it was a , a male domain , it is not so now there 's , there 's , I would think now there 's a predominance of women there , erm purely I think again that Control Room work suits them better , they , they , they concentrate better , I think , they , they lend themselves better to that type of work and they 're more dextrous with their fingers on , on these buttons and , and typewriters and , and other things |
| 4 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 5 | as if it was n't enough to neglect your husband and children , you get yourself involved in vulgar brawls . |
| 6 | Yet in some of the most fundamental areas of the enquiry , we find ourselves involved with societal processes which can be said to precede some senses of ‘ sociology ’ . |
| 7 | The mathematics works , the evidence can be gathered from experiments , and so forth , but in the end we find ourselves unable in any coherent way to explain the true nature of reality at the quantum level . |
| 8 | ‘ Why , that 's no great problem while we remain at the abbot 's lodging , since half of Shrewsbury and a good part of the shire goes in and out freely at the abbey , and you may ask an audience whenever you will , and always find yourself one of three or four , various enough to keep any man in countenance . |
| 9 | Managers find themselves involved in new areas of expertise as our services multiply . |
| 10 | When the conversation turned to sex the interviewer asked , ‘ We 've heard that some women who ordinarily have difficulty achieving orgasm find themselves capable of multiple orgasms under LSD . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the proposal — which owes much to the structure of Aegon ( itself the product of a proprietary company , ENNEA , merging with a mutual one , AGO , more than a decade ago ) — is being closely studied by the many other mutual UK life assurers who find themselves short of free capital . |
| 12 | Now they find themselves alone in later years and often have to rebuild their lives right from scratch . |
| 13 | WIN yourself one of 200 limited edition prints signed by five famous faces from the world of international rugby in a special raffle offer . |
| 14 | ‘ But if you favor those with the best chance of succeeding , then you leave yourself open to political attacks from those left out . ’ |
| 15 | Teachers ' centres also make themselves responsible in some areas for the servicing of school equipment , the provision of an exhibition collection of equipment and materials , and in some cases even for equipment loans . |
| 16 | It is not only those who dismiss the arts as self-indulgent who lay themselves open to such a charge . |
| 17 | ‘ I throw myself half-naked at all my clients ! ’ |