Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We set ourselves to introduce a critical awareness of current misconceptions about language , to inform students of some differences between speech and writing , to make them aware that social and aesthetic evaluations of language are that , and nothing more ( however confidently pronounced ) and to sensitise them to some of the difficulties of pupils in English schools for whom English is not the mother tongue , or for whom their own English was a baffling unfamiliar variety . |
| 2 | This part of the ‘ window ’ can be used for long-range scrying ; a character looking into it and willing himself to see a far-distant scene can see into an elliptical area bounded by Middenheim to the north , Nuln to the south , some 25 miles west of Altdorf , and to around 100 miles east along the River Talabec out of Altdorf . |
| 3 | The ‘ Dawn of civilisation ’ produced events of a different kind , different because they were , for the first time , modified by man himself to provide a new source of ‘ goodness ’ to be added to the storehouse that is the Created God . |
| 4 | He was poising himself to launch a final attack on Grant , intending to finish him off at his leisure . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , he was led by a strong artistic instinct and the personal impact of Socrates himself to create a new art-form related to those he now despised . |
| 6 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 7 | Each passenger is a different face of white colonialism : the overt racist who can not bring himself to use a Black doctor to treat his sick wife ; the hypocritical racist who secretly has an affair with his Black housekeeper ; the white liberal who alternates between ’ slumming ’ it with the natives , and living with the whites , not quite willing or able to give up his white privilege . |
| 8 | In the annual report of the Ministry of Health it had been said that it was the practice , in some wards , to require a casual who was locked in a cell by himself to break a given quantity of stone , often very hard , down to a specified standard of size which was reached when it could be passed through a ring : |
| 9 | Beauty , of course , and Art , also needed warmth of feeling , there was no getting away from it … and , in passing , he allowed himself to feel a cautious contempt for the greedy merchants of England for whom the Exhibition had been an apotheosis . |
| 10 | He taught himself to become a local government accountant through night schools and correspondence courses . |
| 11 | But the denouement of the Soviet military presence in Egypt proved at least that the concession of military facilities to the USSR was unlikely in itself to induce a dependent alignment on that power . |
| 12 | For example Lyotard considers Freud 's ‘ talking cure ’ itself to promote a discursive economy of desire through the colonization of the unconscious by discourse ; through the subversion of the primary process by language and the transference ( Lyotard 1984 , p. 106 ) . |
| 13 | The ‘ traditional working class ’ is Britain 's newest minority and it is far too small by itself to elect a Labour government . |
| 14 | The administration has pledged itself to introduce a new style of government . |
| 15 | There would be erm the possibility of the unitary authorities themselves getting together to prepare joint structure plans , so in as , as , instead of having a joint authority with er members joining in , in one committee to oversee the preparation of the plan , there would be individual authorities er working to their own committees with members er operating separately , but preparing through that mechanism a joint structure plan and the third option would be for each authority itself to prepare a unitary development plan , incorporating both strategic policies and the sorts of policies that we are currently seeing and familiar with in local plans . |
| 16 | ‘ The division faces another difficult year ahead as it completes its fundamental restructuring and positions itself to become a viable business in niche markets , ’ the company declared . |
| 17 | He rested his arm lightly along her shoulders as they left the restaurant , and she forced herself to wait a decent interval before ducking lightly away from him , hating the insidious way his touch seemed to affect her . |
| 18 | ‘ Then again , she might have opened and closed it herself to provide a misleading story . ’ |
| 19 | And so , although she had hated having to do it , Laura had forced herself to write a long letter to Ross , saying how very much she loved and missed him — and could n't they still try to salvage something from the wreck of their marriage ? |
| 20 | She swallowed , – forced herself to draw a long breath . |
| 21 | And secondly , if she did n't see what she thought she was going to see , she would n't trust herself to keep a straight face . |
| 22 | She did not want to talk to her friend about Jamie , and she did not trust herself to hold a lengthy conversation with Bridget without mentioning his visit . |
| 23 | In essence , the obsessive Clare Leash had taken it upon herself to make a full account of the volumes in the Society 's possession , and had suffered a stroke while doing so . |
| 24 | Representative government , parties and elections are now seen increasingly as providing an essential framework but as inadequate by themselves to establish a democratic society in the more radical sense of government by the people . |
| 25 | Buy a car maintenance manual and teach yourself to install a catalytic converter . |
| 26 | But neither the new green and democratic agendas nor the ditching of outmoded socialist dogmas are sufficient in themselves to create a modern vision for the left . |
| 27 | After a large lunch in the women 's majlis , I had just settled myself to do a little reading when there was a knock at my door . |
| 28 | Until that time , membership will still be open to people who have shown themselves to possess a broad level of experience in indirect taxation matters . |
| 29 | Perhaps it was a show of support for his disciplining of Gilchrist ; perhaps there was the feeling that Worrell had drifted away from the hub of West Indies cricket ; or perhaps once again the selectors simply could not bring themselves to appoint a black man . |
| 30 | The second list tells you which foods naturally contain those items — but remember , if you really can not bring yourself to eat a particular range of foods , it is always possible to take the lacking vitamin in tablet form . |