Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming from Russia , where freedom of the press has been not so much unknown as uncomprehended since long before the Revolution , he is shocked to discover that a free press disseminated all kinds of false , partial and invented information and that journalists contradict themselves from one day to the next without shame and without apology . |
| 2 | And because organisms replicate themselves , they could be far less expensive than chemical or mechanical methods . |
| 3 | Hussa arrived with her mother and while Shama eased herself on to the carpet and settled against a cushion , Hussa picked up one of the newspapers which a driver brought from the village each morning . |
| 4 | Mankind has a powerful desire to rationalise its actions ; and when people found themselves ten , twenty years after the First World War still paying housing subsidies , this desire to rationalise , and perhaps a natural sense of shame , forbade them to recognise that they were doing so merely out of unwillingness to recognise that 1914 prices and money values had gone for ever . |
| 5 | Tutors and mentors will wish to examine and introduce professional and ethical issues relating to the Code as and when opportunities present themselves . |
| 6 | But Faye only nodded , and when Tom let himself out gently without saying anything further , the two women remained silent as well . |
| 7 | His patriotism became inflamed ( Poems Dedicated to National Independence and Liberty ) and when Napoleon crowned himself Emperor , he shared the disgust of Beethoven , who tore out the dedication of the Eroica symphony . |
| 8 | At least it got her out of his office without more lecturing , and when Glyn presented himself rather smugly she told him smartly that she intended to go to France and she intended to go alone . |
| 9 | His thumbs explored her ears as his fingertips soothed the back of her neck and as Jenna moulded herself closer his hands moved to her body , tracing her spine and then sliding down to her hips to hold her against him . |
| 10 | Christmas is a natural time for us to indulge ourselves , free from the constraints of commissioning clients , and as calligraphy lends itself admirably to the creation of ephemera such as greetings cards , most of us have a large collection of those many of our distinguished colleagues . |
| 11 | But although Shadwell saw himself as a follower of Ben Jonson , he was writing in a different era . |
| 12 | 789 ( CS 262 : S 1183 ) , but whether Lindsey detached itself from Mercian control in 757–8 and , if so , how long an interval elapsed before Offa reasserted himself is unknown . |
| 13 | This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . |
| 14 | Women participate , not as feminists , but as revolutionaries to free ourselves from exploitation . |