Example sentences of "by [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no choice about the way through ; if you enter you can only earn the right to emerge by submitting yourself to a series of confrontations with the work . |
| 2 | There is an inflation of pride , through intensified awareness of one 's own power by seeing oneself through the subject 's eyes . |
| 3 | It rescues psychoanalysis from the confusions it had been led into by seeing itself as a natural science , like physics or chemistry . |
| 4 | By politicizing his text in this way Sukenick runs the risk of linking authorial production with political manipulation , but he regularly plays down the privilege of composition by including himself as a minor character within his narratives . |
| 5 | All these , we know , are inversions of the truth , yet by using himself as a reference point , Iago can convince people to the stage where they accept his view unquestioningly . |
| 6 | You could make it all seem better than it was by reminding yourself of the spirit of Sharon Lines and the apparent contentment of Old Ape and the cigarette cocked jollily in the corner of Mrs Slewy 's mouth and the way in which Miss Lavant had learnt to live with her passion . |
| 7 | She could control that by reminding herself of the terrible consequences it had led to the first time . |
| 8 | Let us finish by reminding ourselves of the traditional skills and purposes of historians . |
| 9 | Where identification is a morally valuable attitude which can be expressed by binding oneself to the authority , one has a reason to do so which is served by consent to the authority . |
| 10 | The Parliament now proposes , and the Council of Ministers has agreed , that an SE may be formed by a public or private company by merging or forming a holding company , or indeed , if it has a presence in more than one Member State , by transforming itself into an SE . |
| 11 | It has also stood Marx on his head , by transforming itself from a classless society into a caste society ( if at the same time gratifying Lenin 's hope that the intermediate stage of class society might be bypassed ) . |
| 12 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 13 | They won by applying themselves to the job in hand and , if they had continued to do the same in the Tests , it might have been an interesting summer . |
| 14 | This study has illustrated the ways in which the social sciences created ‘ new knowledges ’ as they revolutionized themselves , and none more so than psychology which obtained its influential position by applying itself to a number of ‘ practices ’ involving problems of the ‘ abnormal functioning ’ of either individuals or institutions . |
| 15 | It is certainly not without significance that the Association always maintained a link with the new youth movement by aligning itself with the Boys ' Brigade and playing an active role in the formation of the Scouts . |
| 16 | There was also Captain Hawes , another ex-serviceman , who was finally executed for robberies on the moor ; Whitney , the butcher , who was feared for his savagery and barbarism ; Captain Stafford , a Londoner who found fame on the moor , and Thomas Simpson ( Old Mob ) who , although hideously ugly , managed to evade capture regularly by disguising himself as a woman . |
| 17 | Brin Weare fooled the enemy by disguising himself as a priest . |
| 18 | Brin Weare fooled the enemy by disguising himself as a priest . |
| 19 | It does this by disguising itself as an aphid , in order to avoid being detected by the ants . |
| 20 | Totalization in the first Critique , Lévi-Strauss suggests , can only create its meaning by selection through such metonymic devices of exclusion , that is , by founding itself on an — ethnocentric — absence . |
| 21 | Mrs Molina , who won 55% of the vote in the run-off , triumphed by painting herself as an outsider and a reformer . |
| 22 | How could he explain that only by emptying himself into a woman was there any relief ? |
| 23 | Jesus releases us from this addiction by revealing himself as the willing servant , humbled to the point of death , submitting his will to the will of God . |
| 24 | Harrison explained that a few months earlier eight European environmentalists had stirred up international press coverage by chaining themselves to a logging barge at Miri . |
| 25 | Begin by addressing yourself to the problem . |
| 26 | The 19-year-old wonderkid from Romford could save the Gunners more than £2million in the transfer market by establishing himself as a key figure in his club 's revived quest for the Premier League title . |
| 27 | When God appeared to Abraham in the guise of three strangers in need of hospitality , Abraham greeted them by bowing himself to the ground once ( 18.2 ) . |
| 28 | Sure you 're a great guy in their eyes … you 've done 'em all a favour by writing yourself off the promotion list . |
| 29 | It evades capture by lodging itself inside the very muscles of the pursuer . |
| 30 | The one certainty is that he has consistently sought to secure his own position , mostly by presenting himself as a sensible centrist between the extremes to his right and left . |