Example sentences of "and [modal v] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acute , function-related pain is primarily sensory or peripheral , and may lend itself to treatment with analgesics directed to the involved organ . |
| 2 | Unless they can be guaranteed a post , they will consider alternatives at a time when they probably need to be free of distractions from their studies and may commit themselves to another job unnecessarily . |
| 3 | Others will have more than one " drug or behaviour of choice " and may find themselves to be significantly cross-addicted to many others . |
| 4 | They are permanently based at the Apollo and must acquaint themselves with every scene change of each production . |
| 5 | In the reply he is not allowed to introduce any new matter and must confine himself to replying to the points made in the discussion and to summarising the main arguments he put forward when moving the motion . |
| 6 | At least one ‘ multi-million unit company ’ is said to have signed up for PowerPC , and should reveal itself within two months , PowerOpen said . |
| 7 | Further sponsors and at least one ‘ multi-million unit company ’ , not expected to be in the mainstream computer systems business , is said to have signed up for PowerPC , and should reveal itself within two months , claimed PowerOpen officials . |
| 8 | Barrow has had to add Spencer Whelan , Craig Goodwin and Mark Limbert to the remaining fit 11 from the Brighton game , and could play himself against Rotherham . |
| 9 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 10 | She would look all right and would throw herself into the dancing with undisciplined enthusiasm . |
| 11 | The proposed community , to be established on the banks of the Susquehannah river in New England , would consist of twelve men and women , and would sustain itself by farming the land . |
| 12 | So far as its origin is concerned , we shall take it as a factor in organic evolution , and shall content ourselves with pointing out certain more primitive features of which it is the natural development . |
| 13 | Resentment will colour our attitude towards our partner and will show itself in a lack of respect and lack of desire to make love . |
| 14 | Many solicitors , in writing a letter for a client , will misrepresent the law , even though they are addressing themselves to a layman , and will lend themselves to various abuses and suppressions ( not involving a breach of law ) in order to obstruct a just claim . |
| 15 | It is a slippery customer and will disguise itself in various ways ; we must see through its masks , for beyond the Ego lies our true unlimited Self . |
| 16 | They played against a team of east of Scotland women in Edinburgh last night , and will pit themselves against a Scottish team select in Glasgow tonight and a West of Scotland select in Glasgow tomorrow . |
| 17 | A mountain is a mountain and will maintain itself as mountain . |
| 18 | It comes in interlocking 22cm square pieces and will shape itself around bumps in the terrain which can be made with earth-moving equipment before the slope is laid . |
| 19 | The program can learn about new classes and the relationships that exist between classes and can modify itself at run-time . |
| 20 | She may be commonplace or dazzling , and can transform herself from one to the other by miraculous means . |
| 21 | It is that of ‘ a thinking , intelligent being , that has reason and reflection , and can consider itself as itself , the same thinking thing in different times and places ’ . |
| 22 | DOS 5 is more efficient at managing memory and can install itself in a previously unused area of the computer 's memory leaving more memory available for running programs . |
| 23 | Some species have become greatly flattened like the living sand dollar , which has a covering of very fine spines and can bury itself in sand with remarkable speed . |