Example sentences of "[pn reflx] be [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He himself is much better recorded in the studio performance but the new one has a certain documentary value , for it shows him 14 years later still singing the part magnificently , still ( for example ) achieving that remarkable effect at the climax of ‘ Or son sei mesi ’ when , by his phrasingover , the shame ( ‘ vergogna ’ ) becomes the agony ( ‘ ahime ’ ) , and now ( at a time when it must be tempting to broaden baritonally ) deliberately sharpening the edge and brightness of his tenor .
2 Legal proceedings were opened against various mayors including the reformist mayor of Dresden , Wolfgang Berghofer , although Berghofer himself was not personally suspected of election manipulation ( in May he went to work for the office planning and construction company Häussler in Stuttgart ) .
3 But Downes himself was not quite finished :
4 Lanfranc himself was only partly converted , and , even in his last days , he was still giving quantities of the bodies of his predecessors , which had filled the old church before the fire of 1067 , to his new foundation of canons outside the walls of the city .
5 Copernicus himself was very much immersed in Aristotelian metaphysics and had no adequate response to them .
6 As early as December 1932 , at a time when Nizan himself was still fully committed to a highly sectarian " class against class " ideology , both Thorez and Duclos were arguing a case for a more realistic popular front policy .
7 The area is also wide and spacious , the main roof itself being quite remarkably formed with huge flat slabs of stone .
8 Building construction should not be a closed book , and the industry itself is neither well trained nor well informed , otherwise its reputation would be a good deal better than it is .
9 Pregnancy itself is no longer believed to further weaken the immune system and increase the chances of a woman with HIV developing AIDS , although it may be less advisable for a woman who has already developed AIDS .
10 The most likely explanation for this is that the vehicle itself is not actually speeding up , but the cooling fan is !
11 However , the basic National Insurance retirement pension by itself is not enough to bring her above the point where tax begins to be charged , so if she has no other income apart from this , she will not be asked to pay tax .
12 The group itself is usually already perceived by this time as a source of comfort , strength , wisdom and support even though only a few weeks previously all its members were lost in active addictive disease .
13 The fallacy that by using drama as a learning medium we necessarily dilute the drama is exposed by the fact that drama itself is usually greatly enhanced by the work that can accompany it in other curriculum areas .
14 The power amplifier itself is almost totally performed on the chip and this makes construction very straightforward .
15 The bodice itself is very well fitted , very closely fitted and the women were very tightly corseted .
16 The hotel itself is very comfortably furnished with a large airy lounge and bar and a good , reasonably priced restaurant .
17 The spin-up itself was also partly resolved in time , and the whole event , glitch plus recovery , is now seen to include three distinct exponential components , with timescales of 1 , 20 and 300 days .
18 Now Brancati and co-workers in this issue ( p 30 ) report that age itself was not strongly associated with in-hospital mortality or 2-year survival in their series of patients admitted with community acquired pneumonia , whereas severity of the acute illness and of other coexisting chronic disease certainly was .
19 The term ‘ mass media ’ itself was not widely used until the 1960s .
20 However , in the nineteenth century we do see much more clearly the rise of a concept equivalent or similar to the modern one , although the definition itself was not fully developed until the work of the American G. Stanley Hall and his colleagues in the 1890s , and first popularised in his massive book published in 1904 .
21 The logic of an overall national agreement could almost be left to speak for itself though the conciliation board campaign itself was not formally abandoned until the outbreak of war in August 1914 , when the union immediately declared a truce in all its disputes with the Federation .
22 Houses to accommodate them rose as a compact group south of the churchyard , and the church itself was soon ambitiously transformed to provide the setting for an elaborate cycle of daily worship .
23 The fireplace itself was obviously never used ; there was a fan of newspaper where the sticks and coal should be .
24 The race itself was very well organised but I was absolutely amazed at the way in which the winning women were treated in comparison to the winning men during the prize giving ceremony later on .
25 It seemed for her that space itself was now slowly constricting .
26 The hearth itself was often fiercely guarded by a cook , and it would cause great offence if the ‘ lady of the house ’ spent any time in the kitchen , let alone tried to prepare a meal .
27 Had her shyly determined efforts to be friendly with the other quieter girls like herself been so thoroughly misinterpreted ?
28 Oh , how could she have let herself be so easily tricked , so eager to believe that he had changed ?
29 There is a refreshing simplicity and tenderness in Motion 's account of the way Francis nurses her , but she herself is too sketchily drawn for the episode to carry much weight .
30 Turning to face Ellie , she smiled , said , ‘ I ca n't thank you enough for all you 've done … ’ and only then seemed to realise that Ellie herself was n't all dressed up .
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