Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should be asking ourselves about the character of individuals which are being produced by the family forms that we have today and about law 's part in creating the domestic group . |
| 2 | ( One occasionally encounters a burst of inanity of Nobel proportions , as in this : " Our capacity for deceiving ourselves about the operation of the brain is almost limitless , mainly because what we can report is only a minute fraction of what goes on in our head . |
| 3 | Already we were beginning to talk among ourselves about the feasibility of a Hungarian-type reform to replace the central planning mechanism which Stalin had created in the 1930s . |
| 4 | Match-wise , Botha admitted : ‘ We have to do something ourselves about the number of penalties we are conceding . |
| 5 | We saw this ourselves during the filming of a television sequence on the laying behaviour of the cuckoo . |
| 6 | We kept to ourselves for the rest of the day , taking food from the buttery and retiring early for we were both still exhausted after our journey from England . |
| 7 | In the West , we search outside ourselves for the source of inspiration , creation and truth . |
| 8 | ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’ |
| 9 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 10 | We discover ourselves through the form of the sentence . |
| 11 | That 's why we should now make a start on reminding ourselves of the relevance of our own particular life story . |
| 12 | To convince ourselves of the specificity of the bursting effect , Roger and I repeated the experiment using the electroshock amnesia approach I referred to above ; the bursting activity , like the biochemical and structural changes , occurs only in the animals which remember the task . |
| 13 | Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions . |
| 14 | We need to remind ourselves of the nature of judicial authority in the context of fundamental questions of constitutional law , as discussed above ( pp.33–41 ) . |
| 15 | It is as well to remind ourselves of the extent of England 's Test defeats in India and Sri Lanka . |
| 16 | Most of us will try anything to ease ourselves of the pain of having been unsatisfactory children . |
| 17 | Get ourselves into the presence of the lord . |
| 18 | We identify ourselves with the eternity of the self and no longer with the limitations and distress of our mental and physical ignorance . |
| 19 | But while some of us console ourselves with the promise of tuition sometime in the future , others decide to immerse themselves in a more intense personal schedule via the Musicians Institute , located in the heart of London 's Docklands . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Selling merchandise in a public place carries heavy responsibilities , so we concern ourselves with the safety of our customers . |
| 22 | Clearly , we would not need to concern ourselves with the meaning of analogue information if all sources of text , numerics , sounds and images were digital . |
| 23 | On this occasion , we had come to place ourselves under the authority of the hairdressers , to cast ourselves upon their mercy since , with the snip of the scissors , our dreams could be realized or ruined . |
| 24 | We had stopped trailing around after the men in the left , contorting ourselves in the hope of receiving some grudging crumbs of approval . |
| 25 | Both of us were giving ourselves in the service of a third party . |
| 26 | They are not brethren , they are not underlings ; they are other nations , caught with ourselves in the net of life and time , fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth . |
| 27 | Though the CPRS had drawn up an agenda in four parts , starting with our relationship with the external world , we soon found ourselves in the middle of a second reading debate over the whole field . |
| 28 | We found ourselves in the middle of nowhere . |
| 29 | But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about . |
| 30 | To maintain rapport in a postal survey we must always put ourselves in the position of the respondent . |