Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most striking results were in Moscow , where candidates belonging to an umbrella organization of reformist groups and political clubs calling itself Democratic Russia won 55 of the capital 's 65 Supreme Soviet seats , and in Leningrad , where a comparable organization calling itself Democratic Elections " 90 won 28 of the city 's 34 Supreme Soviet seats ; both organizations also won control of their respective city soviets . |
| 2 | Eager to enrich the treasury the Crown began a rapid development of these resources , settling the area with peasants who worked as a serf proletariat and maintained farms to feed themselves . |
| 3 | Then the Israelis entered west Beirut , their Lebanese militia colleagues massacred the Palestinians in Sabra and Chatila and European armies established themselves in Beirut . |
| 4 | Nor is it an accident that the managerial and professional classes reproduce themselves in their own image as do the process and clerical groups . |
| 5 | As the American Protestant layman Thomas Howard has said ‘ Jews and Christians worship the God who has gone to vast and prolonged pains to disclose himself to U8 as he not she , as King and not Queen , and for Christians as Father not Mother , and who sent his Son not his daughter in his final unveiling of himself for our eyes . |
| 6 | However self-critical you may be — and some executives set themselves standards of achievement which are unrealistically high , rather than too low — there is usually much to be gained from learning the views of others about your capabilities . |
| 7 | Our society has tended to place women in a subservient relationship to men and some women find themselves drawn towards dominant or dependent partners and thus fail to assert their own needs as individuals . |
| 8 | What accounts for the complexity of the problem of evaluation is not only the economic and social costs involved themselves , but the interests , conflicting or in harmony , of those who pay the costs and those who reap the benefits . |
| 9 | 5 Universities , 8 Colleges and 7 Polytechnics listed themselves as having staff with graduate qualifications in linguistics or applied linguistics . |
| 10 | My uncle in the evening had read aloud something where the line was quoted The child is father to the man and these words insinuated themselves not into the stony ground and thistles of my mind but into the dark rich soil that brings forth a hundred fold . |
| 11 | The start of every cricket season causes cricketers of all standards and all ages to ask themselves the basic question , ‘ have I still got the old skills ? |
| 12 | The standard of golf was excellent again and all participants enjoyed themselves , both during the matches and in the evening . |
| 13 | But media apart , thousands and thousands of white and Black Americans found themselves standing in front of this indisputably charismatic orator . |
| 14 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , syllabubs were sometimes made with the juice of Seville oranges , and in these days we can devise cream and wine or cream and fruit-syrup syllabubs to suit ourselves . |
| 15 | The proposal on the Fifth Directive concerning the structure of public limited companies is based on Article 54 ( right for natural and legal persons to establish themselves freely in the Community ) . |
| 16 | The surfaces of regular and semi-regular solids lend themselves to geodesic shells in which all the vertexes touch the surface of a circumscribing sphere . |
| 17 | There are hundreds of cases of men who took the most drastic and precarious actions to rid themselves of , what is after all , a minor irritant . |
| 18 | Firstly the local tyrants , evil gentry and lawless landlords have themselves driven the peasants to this , so th there is more to it than that , and secondly a revolution is not a dinner party or writing an essay or painting a picture or doing embroidery , it can not be so refined , so leisurely and gentle so temperate , kind , courteous , restrained and , and magnanimous . |
| 19 | During the second world war Burmese and Indonesian nationalists allied themselves with the Japanese , finding them a useful lever against the colonial power and in some ways preferable to it . |
| 20 | With extra time looking certain to end in a second 1–1 stalemate and dog-tired players steeling themselves for the dreaded first Cup final penalty shoot-out , the 30-year-old soared to head a Paul Merson corner into and out of Chris Woods ' hands . |
| 21 | Think and think again of the number of different rooms , the multitude of different beds , the mirrors , the endless dark stairways , the duplicated obscenities , the handfuls of folded pound notes , the sordid exchanges in doorways or park benches , the varied postures of so many unclean and degraded females spreadeagling themselves for lucre , the bodily smells , the cheap perfumes , the wasted seed , the anxieties about disease , the fears of recognition and the intolerable pressure of guilt that would inevitably descend like a black mantle over even the most vulgar and sensual head . |
| 22 | Years later , even , when 617 just happened to be in my Canberra Wing at Binbrook after the war , oddly enough both Nos 617 and 9 Squadrons found themselves together in my four-squadron wing . |
| 23 | If only social workers and other professionals familiarized themselves with these research findings and integrated them into their everyday practice both tragedies and unwarrantable interventions could be avoided or kept to an absolute minimum . |
| 24 | The C.C.P.R. has done much to help the Society and other Organisations establish themselves , and Festival Producer Olive Newson is well known to us for her encouragement and help . |
| 25 | Ruth looked at the cup in his hands , and two pictures presented themselves — Gran with all the anxiety gone from her face , and Undry full of light like the sea . |
| 26 | One author cited his own thesis seven times , out of a total of 10 citations , and two authors cited themselves six times — one of whom provided all of his total citation count . |
| 27 | While it is good to see statutory and voluntary bodies asking themselves , ‘ what are we doing about West Belfast ? ’ the responses have been less than convincing . |
| 28 | Equally , the lesbian and gay movement needs to make far more serious and energetic efforts to rid itself of racist assumptions in its political agenda . |
| 29 | But it remains true that the cabinet , its members and senior officials concern themselves with broader issues and leave the trivia to underlings . |
| 30 | Magistrates , jurors and local constables showed themselves increasingly willing to prosecute the laws against the Nonconformists . |