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 . |