Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linlithgow 's Labour MP , Tam Dalyell , has aligned himself with local people fighting the proposed workings and has expressed concern that they could damage or destroy a line of beech trees bounding the site . |
| 2 | For the work so far has limited itself to scientific and technical problems , neglecting political and legal issues . |
| 3 | Another partner , Mr Tim Haggie , has distinguished himself in sporting circles . |
| 4 | But while the British media 's account of World Cup preparations in Italy has been dominated by the prospect of violence , British domestic youth culture has primed itself for other possibilities by looking to the Latin-influenced culture of spectatorship and style . |
| 5 | He has deported himself with great dignity . |
| 6 | It is true that history records frequent occasions when this has been forgotten and prejudice has shown itself in religious , racial and class distinctions . |
| 7 | In my view , this local authority has shown itself throughout conscious of its duty to keep an open mind about the future of these children and to consider all the potential options in what was often an extremely difficult and fraught situation . |
| 8 | Not only has he exerted himself tirelessly on teh College 's behalf but he has flung himself with similar enthusiasm into fundraising for the Prince 's Trust and for the Leigh City Technology School in Kent . |
| 9 | The psychoanalytical school , almost by definition has based itself on supra-historical assumptions which have been almost valueless in detailed analyses . |
| 10 | This is almost the position in which the Liberal party has found itself in recent elections ( see Table 5.2 ) . |
| 11 | The system has found itself in dire need of a new way of legitimating itself , and this need has given rise to a variety of responses . |
| 12 | It is evident that Polybius has identified himself with Roman success . |
| 13 | The reigning world champion , who turned his back on Formula One after he was outmanoeuvred by Alain Prost last season , has established himself as runaway favourite to win the Indycar championship . |
| 14 | Former marketing and promotions assistant to the now defunct David Messum Gallery , Michael Roosen has launched himself with considerable energy into the business of ‘ Healing , Personal Development , and Stress Management as well as Visual Arts promotion ’ . |
| 15 | Even after stripping out the jingoism that tends to impose itself on British attitudes towards the game , the fact remains that it was a host of late-Victorian engineers , merchants and military men who took the rudiments of football abroad with them , almost as missionaries . |
| 16 | Current possession of human , physical and financial capital tends to reinforce itself in successive periods , although not completely so . |
| 17 | This may be achieved by engaging in what Matza ( 1969:93 ) refers to as ‘ natural reduction ’ , that is , reducing oneself — the subject — into a thing-like object incapable of transcending circumstances , which in this particular mundane instance means viewing oneself as incapable of disobeying orders from high places . |
| 18 | But it does lend itself to careful analysis and preparation which may well pay off during the actual bargaining . |
| 19 | The subject continues to invest itself in cultural forms , identifying , for example , with sports , cinema , clothing , a political line , or certain relationships ; but such is the scale of modern society that the same individual may become absurdly overextended into essentially superficial relationships , none of which augments his or her being , and yet simultaneously , may have nothing at all in common with another overextended individual who has selected entirely different areas of the surrounding culture . |
| 20 | Even pride , the most self-centred of passions implies that one does see oneself from other viewpoints and care whether one is admired or despised , even to the point perhaps of valuing respect by others above self-preservation . |
| 21 | Capital growth , above all , is what the industry sells to distinguish itself from boring old building societies . |