Example sentences of "that [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this survey has been concerned with public libraries , co-operation potentially encompasses a wide range of institutions , and an INSET network that concerned itself with training across the whole spectrum of librarianship would be of maximum value . |
| 2 | One trainee on a course for people looking for employment commented that seeing himself on video in a mock interview was an experience that changed his life . |
| 3 | They made shadowy forms that lowered themselves into seats , sat transfixed for a while and then rose and glided.away . |
| 4 | and about the snake that ate itself to death . |
| 5 | Appraisal is seen to be principally the activity of applied linguistics ( or that branch of it that concerns itself with language teaching ) and application ( as defined here ) the principal activity of language teaching . |
| 6 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 7 | The English pundit , John Reason , hardly gives the impression that endearing himself to Scots is high among his priorities , but many surely enjoyed his observation that , by the time Dume had peeled away the last player obscuring his verdict , Turnbull must have felt he had been down there longer than Tutankhamen . |
| 8 | A weeping star that mends itself in time |
| 9 | The feminist movement has combined with ecology to make many women feel that stuffing themselves with pills is not what Mother Nature wants , and that learning to understand their bodies by the rhythm method is superior . |
| 10 | If the Smiths had only produced sunny , cuddly stuff like ‘ Heaven Knows ’ , ‘ Ask ’ , ‘ Vicar in a Tutu ’ , they would have merely presaged the perky negligibility of The Housemartins , the sound that grins itself to death . |
| 11 | Similarly organisations that find themselves in difficulty ; where the profits are not coming through , where there is pressure from shareholders for a significant improvement in profit performance ; here again , the chairman and the Board are likely to reach out to executive search consultants to find them new talent . |
| 12 | In this chapter I will look at some of the literature that addresses itself to Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge — these writers are the inheritors of his work in the sense that they have read and responded to his ideas . |
| 13 | It is one of those lovely places that lends itself to exploration on foot — especially in and around the old city . |
| 14 | The problem of the physical and sexual abuse of children , which has become a dominant theme of family studies and of the work of the social services in the 1970s and 1980s , is increasingly seen as one that replicates itself across generations . |
| 15 | The first is the sub-genre that bases itself on events in the past that are perhaps not quite yet history . |
| 16 | It would not be right for me to say that he was wrongly ennobled , because I know too little about him to be able to detect whatever surprising quality it was that commended itself to Harold Wilson for admission to the House of Lords . |