Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 2 | THE way things are going , any Rugby Union player who has kept himself fit during the summer , can expect a sudden telephone call inviting him to join either the Lions or England on tour . |
| 3 | He was out of Birmingham ; not only that , he got himself space on the floor of a flat above the Two ‘ I 's coffee bar in Old Compton Street . |
| 4 | He had to give himself time for the thought to reach him . |
| 5 | Jackson tried to make himself look like a man again . |
| 6 | So from the first he attempted to make himself master of the city — a prelude to an active policy not only to control Rome but to restore the Papal State to its old frontiers . |
| 7 | Sometimes , with Prince , it 's like watching someone else watching himself masturbate in a mirror . |
| 8 | could in itself account for the presence of high cAMP values . |
| 9 | Sawyer 's interim regime — which had invited the participation of his opponents — was not itself party to the Banjul agreement . |
| 10 | What we do know is that much of the three great islands bordering the Java Sea — Sumatra , Java and Borneo — and nearly all of the smaller islands inside the sea itself lie below an altitude of 200 feet . |
| 11 | WHEN Swedish authorities suddenly changed the wording they wanted on 50,000 yacht paint cans , Courtaulds Coatings found itself slap in the middle of a crisis . |
| 12 | The mere fact that the member appeals should not in itself amount to a waiver . |
| 13 | It does , however , link the law to the idea of harm and this is valuable in so far as it reduces the risk that boisterous behaviour , or other non-violent activity , can by itself amount to a breach of the peace . |
| 14 | The rejoinder to this is to accept that the counter is pointing to a real feature of academic thought , which is that the consensus of the relevant disciplinary community does indeed offer some measure of reliability and raises knowledge claims above mere whim ; but that does not in itself amount to a demonstration of the ‘ progress ’ of knowledge . |
| 15 | MERE delay which gives rise to prejudice and unfairness may by itself amount to an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 16 | There was no warrant for not following the ample precedent for the proposition that mere delay which gave rise to prejudice and unfairness could by itself amount to an abuse of the process . |
| 17 | ‘ We see no warrant for not following ample precedent , now well set , for the proposition that mere delay which gives rise to prejudice and unfairness may by itself amount to an abuse of the process . |
| 18 | It will be seen that whereas in Reg. v. Derby Crown Court , Ex parte Brooks , 80 Cr.App.R. 164 it was stated that any delay must be unjustifiable before relief by way of stay will be granted in Reg. v. Bow Street Stipendiary Magistrate , Ex parte Director of Public Prosecutons , 91 Cr.App.R. 283 , mere delay giving rise to prejudice and unfairness , it is said , may by itself amount to an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 19 | If he could behave like that towards a woman he had once loved , a woman rendered helpless , what could she herself expect in the future ? |
| 20 | As she confessed much later , it was not the thought of failure which made Bradlaugh and herself pause at the outset : |
| 21 | But it had progressed to the stage where she could not make herself walk past a pigeon on the ground , but would cross the road in order to avoid it . |
| 22 | Thus , being so paradoxically evaluated by the external structures of their culture , women themselves suffer from an ambiguity about their sexuality and menstruation . |
| 23 | It is normally also necessary to check whether the investments themselves qualify for the exemption and to obtain the putative counterparty 's consent and this will need detailed compliance procedures . |
| 24 | The answer must be that it is much less important by what mechanisms people come across art than what they themselves bring to the encounter . |
| 25 | ‘ So you 've just elected yourself Boss of the Beach , huh ? ’ |
| 26 | Some of my friends have been frightened into no longer wanting to smoke , others have faced the facts but are reconciled to being fonder of smoking than they are afraid of cancer , but I myself yield to the temptation to smoke although convinced that I ought to abstain . |
| 27 | myself open to the god . |
| 28 | It 's all down to time and motion study ; fill seven haynets at the weekend and you 'll save yourself time in the week . |
| 29 | I walk around in it for a while anyway , watching myself approach in the mirror and admiring the way the skirt moves as I walk . |
| 30 | But then they do n't even seem to have wondered before what they themselves feel about the matter . |