Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | IBM is usually pretty forthcoming about the markets that it foresees for its products , but in this case limits itself to saying that it will appeal to professionals who would prefer ‘ easy-to-remember voice commands ’ to complicated keystrokes or mouse movements . |
2 | Unfortunately , as was earlier on , central government has led the attacks , it 's led the attacks through Sheehey right the way through , and we were supportive of our police then , I think not only of this county , but of all counties , and all county police forces said the same , and we will support our police force , and certainly this budget recommends itself to that . |
3 | As you drive , this NVH manifests itself in the form of tiny vibrations fed back through the steering wheel and the gruff , uninspiring sounds from the SE-FHE engine . |
4 | This chapter confines itself to the intangibles . |
5 | The remainder of this chapter concerns itself with these two outer layers . |
6 | ‘ Well , I 'm sure you 've broken a few speed limits yourself since then . |
7 | This parasite attaches itself to the mouths of fishes , sea-squirts , etc. 65 . |
8 | This influence manifests itself in melodic shapes ( largely pentatonic falling patterns , but , unlike , say , Chicago blues , also lyrical , sustained , long-breathed ) ; vocal timbre ( rich , open-throated , sensuous ) ; and the use of melisma . |
9 | The two rocks are different in chemical composition , and this difference manifests itself in a number of intriguing ways ; ways which a fair part of this book will be devoted to exploring . |
10 | This distinction manifests itself in the fact that the " see that " paraphrase fits the second sentence very well but is very awkward for the first . |
11 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
12 | In order to do this Althusser arms himself with a method for dealing with his material which he borrows from hermeneutics . |
13 | Chapter 7.3 examines the colonial impact upon agriculture , and this example confines itself to a very brief exploration of the colonial experience . |
14 | This belief shows itself in action : e.g. in the cure of the paralysed man ( Mark 2:1–12 ) . |
15 | And yet this film etches itself upon one 's consciousness . |
16 | I think this Samantha fancies herself as a bit of a girl , know what I mean ? ’ |
17 | Even as this problem forms itself in my head it is superseded by its very simple and obvious solution . |
18 | On the microscopic level , this problem manifests itself in abstractionism . |
19 | ‘ This company prides itself in the quality of its totally unsubsidized products , ’ wrote Lord Swaythling . |
20 | This dominance exhibits itself in the ability of corporations to choose effectively which topics of policy they will shepherd into the arena of public debate , and which they will keep within the confines of private discussions . |
21 | This fatalism lends itself to the infamous Burmese bureaucracy , partly because bureaucracy looks like efficiency , partly because bureaucracy fits so neatly into the unchanging Buddhist worldview . |
22 | Whether this view commends itself to many more people than staffers in the NSC and the self-confessed zealots working for Mr Biden is debatable . |
23 | Each village believes itself to be totally different from any other and often marks itself off in a variety of symbolic ways from those which surround it . |
24 | While foot-based metre(s) do display promotion , they are typically " heavier " lines , and such heaviness shows itself in the high degree of demotion ( e.g. of lexical monosyllables — blind in three blind mice ) and subordination within the line . |
25 | But in the anti-colonial revolutions and the Soviet Union today external oppression is as commonly the fundamental source of the creation of a national group , no matter how much that group defines itself in relationship to inherited cultural symbols or a supposedly common past . |
26 | The intense visual concentration and the technical discipline underlying these paintings transmits itself to the spectator in a feeling of tension , almost of unrest . |
27 | The basic complexity is one of asymmetry , which in these conditions shows itself as a deepseated contradiction between the reproduction of market relations ( both directly , within the market , and indirectly , within state and educational functions ) and the consequences of such reproduction in certain sensitive and perhaps crucial areas of public morality , respect for authority and actual crime . |
28 | These values and this separation of course react back on to design practice itself ; after all practice models itself on conceptions of what , theoretically , it is . |
29 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
30 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |