Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the relationship of the two lines within the couplet is not predetermined , the reader is more fully engaged in the process of interpretation , a more active participant in the construction of meaning , than when a text presents itself in more straightforward linear fashion . |
| 2 | What if a council finds itself on the brink ? |
| 3 | Whereas a junior does both advocacy and the preliminary paper work , a leader confines himself to advocacy ( apart from the giving of oral and written opinions , an activity common to both grades ) , |
| 4 | The court held that where a person places himself in danger and it is foreseeable that another person may attempt a rescue , the rescued person owes a duty of care to the rescuer . |
| 5 | Apart from the fact that it avoids the above dilemmas , by claiming only the narrowest scope for semantics , such a theory recommends itself to the pragmaticist for the following reasons . |
| 6 | A society organises itself in such a way that people adhering to cultural norms are rewarded whilst those that deviate are ‘ punished ’ , to a greater or lesser degree depending upon the culture . |
| 7 | Of course , this does n't mean that if a man exposes himself to you , you must be repressing that urge within yourself . |
| 8 | Thus within hospitals the Alliance of Health Workers ( AHW ) has formed which as a union allies itself with the progressive national union federation . |
| 9 | On 18 October , nearly two weeks before the killing , he watched and recorded an episode of the show in which a youth injects himself with the drug Temazepam and suffers an overdose . |
| 10 | This states that a solute distributes itself between two immiscible liquids in a constant ratio of concentrations irrespective of the amount of solute added . |
| 11 | But if a school sees itself as a community school , giving out as much as — or more than — it takes in in the shape of benefit to individual pupils , the manager must decide with some or all the partners on which aspects of community education to concentrate . |
| 12 | If a country finds itself in deficit it can really only do one of two things to put matters right . |
| 13 | However , where a company establishes itself in another member state all the rules of that member state which Apply to its own nationals apply equally to that company . |
| 14 | If the pub as an institution expresses itself in a rich variety of ways , the same is true of the physical forms it takes . |
| 15 | Such viewpoints I have since found elaborated in Brereton ( 1944 ) who records , almost as an educational ‘ law ’ , that : ‘ the standard of an examination adjusts itself to the standard of those taking it ’ ( p. 43 ) . |
| 16 | An age defines itself by choosing another age — usually a forgotten or neglected age — to teach itself new manners through old customs . |
| 17 | If an authority misdirects itself in law , or acts arbitrarily on the basis of considerations which lie outside its statutory powers , or so unreasonably that its decisions can not be justified by any objective standard of reasonableness , then it is the duty and function of the courts to pronounce that such decisions are invalid when these are challenged by anyone aggrieved by them and who has the necessary locus stand I to do so . |
| 18 | Sir Alistair 's light-hearted speech included a sideways swipe at Häagen-Dazs — ‘ it 's come to something when an ice-cream positions itself as the alternative to KY Jelly ’ and another at people who trade on their Scottish names as a guarantee of their trustworthiness — such as Robert Maxwell . |