Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is such a lucid writer — and although he defends himself ably against the charge of superficiality ( which has been levelled since I was a student ) the breadth of his scholarship is so immense that the defence seems unnecessary . |
| 2 | For a man who places himself resolutely against the suppression o questions Lord Todd 's juggling act with logic seem odd . |
| 3 | A further contrast , as I have indicated , may be drawn between the political systems of ‘ developed ’ and ‘ underdeveloped ’ societies , often in terms of the instability of the latter as compared with the former ( Huntington , 1968 ) ; an instability which manifests itself partly in the frequency of military coups and the prevalence of military regimes in the non-industrial countries . |
| 4 | The catalogue , therefore , places itself firmly behind the cutting edge of the historicising , multidisciplinary methodology which questions the value of the formalistic analysis and compositional description characteristic of traditional art history . |
| 5 | Between the subtle observations of the period of about 270–240 B.C. and the adulation of poems like that by Melinno — which , though undated , places itself naturally in the early second century — we have to recognize a gap . |
| 6 | Reinvoicing activity is rather different , providing a stopping off point that holds itself out as the origin in communication with the customer ( or possibly the tax authorities of the customer 's territory ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Shuts himself away from the world . ’ |
| 8 | He often shuts himself away from the world . ’ |
| 9 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 10 | An earlier hero , in The Black Prince ( 1973 ) , is a failed writer who creatively fulfils himself only in the enforced loneliness of a prison cell when he is convicted for a murder he has not committed . |
| 11 | When an inquisitive fish or crab provokes them to such action , it finds itself struggling in a mesh of filaments while the sea cucumber slowly inches itself away on the tube feet that protrude from its underside . |
| 12 | Then a few lines further on : ‘ Stavrogin reveals himself gradually through the action without any explanations ’ . |
| 13 | The psycho-therapist , social worker or social reformer , concerned only with his own clients and their grievance against society , perhaps takes a view comparable to the private citizen of Venice who concerns himself only with the safety of his own dwelling and his own ability to get about the city . |
| 14 | Although this work concerns itself primarily with the organization of knowledge and the production of indexes , catalogues and databases , it is imperative that the indexer should have an appreciation of how the index is to be used . |
| 15 | Hoggett 's analysis concerns itself principally with the opportunities opened up for the left by these changes , with more direct contact between service providers and consumers through neighbourhood offices . |
| 16 | On the MS-DOS side of the connectivity business , Rabbit sees itself up against the big names — IBM , Novell and DCA . |
| 17 | ( In fact , this is really an example of intentional and deliberate socialisation in education , since one of the self-conscious functions of the British public school is the perpetuation of that distinctive life-style by which the elite marks itself off from the rest of society . ) |
| 18 | For 20 minutes the air will gradually charge , as Sidney 's fantastical imaginary seduction acts itself out through the medium of Byrd 's music , so neutral on the surface but so supremely calculated to carry such a sensual text . |
| 19 | The situation will be made more dangerous if the EC cuts itself off from the new North American Free Trade Area . |
| 20 | The structure of intelligence reveals itself spontaneously in the way people behave intellectually ; it is not imposed by the assumptions of testers , as the national press would have it . |
| 21 | The modern obsession with the tube — that evanescent twist of the wave as it curls itself up into the form of a vagina to lure in unwary youths like bees into the mouths of flowers — perpetuates the equation of surfing and sex . |
| 22 | But in general the architecture of the area divides itself clearly in the period 1200–1600 into two main types . |
| 23 | Unless a mother divorces herself completely from the essential tasks of child care , handing over her baby to others , her role will keep her in touch with the most basic elements of life ! |
| 24 | None of the usual tricks for shutting off memory would work now ; whatever he did , whichever way he diverted his attention it would only come wandering back , like a man in a maze who continually finds himself back in the same spot . |
| 25 | He himself was still relatively new to the board , but aligns himself completely with the decision . |
| 26 | There is no choice really as Kevin pulls himself out of the water . |
| 27 | ‘ He is small of stature and , like a small fellow who throws himself around on the rugby field , he brings out his natural aggression through falling off things and doing stunts . |
| 28 | He throws himself entirely on the divine generosity of which he has already had such rich experience . |
| 29 | I 'm going to work on a revolutionary kagoul that pulls itself on like the hood of a Chevy convertible , and then recedes at the touch of a button . |
| 30 | pulls herself out of the water tank in It 's a Knockout . |