Example sentences of "and the [noun pl] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The often painful political processes by which feminists arrived at their anti-elitist linguistic norms has already been erased , and the norms themselves have been naturalised . |
| 2 | Rather , speakers are seen as modifying their behaviour to accommodate to group norms , where both the group and the norms themselves are as perceived by the speaker . |
| 3 | Hotel staff would be asked to note down , on customised documents , their comments on students ' speed , accuracy , stamina , adaptability and demeanour , and the students themselves would contribute to their record of achievement , commenting on what they found hard , different from college , enjoyable or tedious . |
| 4 | … the increasingly articulate demand of society , voiced by parents , employers , politicians and the students themselves is for just this wider service — wider in aims , wider in curriculum and wider in access . |
| 5 | Having defined the size of the board the next stage is to consider the circuit and the components themselves , before getting down to the job of designing the copper track pattern itself . |
| 6 | The British research and development establishments were curiously loth to employ them , and the Germans themselves preferred to rebuild their lives in North America where the scientific opportunities were so much greater . |
| 7 | The views of councillors , officers , members of the public and the ombudsmen themselves will be sought and practices will be examined to see how far general principles emerge and how far recommendations for some improvement in the current situation might be possible . |
| 8 | Texas Gulf Sulphur , as well as affirming the general disclose or abstain principle , made it clear that the persons communicating inside information ( tippers ) to others ( tippees ) would be in breach of the law ; and the tippees themselves would also be subject to the disclose or abstain rule ( ie. prevented from tipping ) . |
| 9 | Pods can also warp , allowing the batteries to slip out of contact , and the contacts themselves are often quite small . |
| 10 | This was never a very promising argument , seeing that the notice is addressed to the defendants and not to the plaintiffs , and the defendants themselves have made it clear that they have no difficulty in understanding it and complying with it . |
| 11 | The job was not easy , and the girls themselves were resistant to her crusading philanthropy . |
| 12 | The teeth are still in position relative to one another , but the mandibular bone has almost all been digested ( one fragment remains , detached at the bottom of the teeth ) and the teeth themselves are heavily digested . |
| 13 | If anything the Land Campaign and the Liberal plan to abolish plural voting before a possible 1915 general election offered the prospect of another Conservative defeat , and the Conservatives themselves were almost certain this would be the case . |
| 14 | The station re-thought its playlist procedures after mounting criticism from all corners of the music industry , including label bosses , pluggers , journalists and the artists themselves . |
| 15 | The identifying element is that instalments are collected on the doorstep , and the agreements themselves are , in instalment credit terms , for relatively small amounts ( typically £150 ) repaid over relatively short period ( typically 26 weeks ) . |
| 16 | And the bureaux themselves are well aware of the potential problem . |
| 17 | The Production Code Administration that was set under him to put the code into practice became one of the most influential bodies of the field of social mores , and the regulations themselves became dubbed the ‘ Hays ’ Code , . |
| 18 | During the preceding night , the trams moved from Thornton Heath to Purley depôt , the move of stores and equipment being effected by three lorries and the tramcars themselves . |
| 19 | The submission to the Department of Trade and Industry of the first annual reports by the audit regulatory bodies ( see ACCOUNTANCY , January , p 9 , and this issue , p 13 ) , has focused attention on both the audit process and the regulators themselves . |
| 20 | However , both this question and the regulators themselves have received attention in the economics literature and this material is treated in section 1.3 below . |
| 21 | Any approvals for making the changes are obtained and the changes themselves are planned . |
| 22 | Any approvals for making the changes are obtained and the changes themselves are planned . |
| 23 | Cultivation spread to the edge of forests that had previously been the tiger 's domain , and the forests themselves were clear-felled . |
| 24 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 25 | In 1944 he was appointed planning consultant to Birkenhead and that year sketched out an estate plan ‘ of houses round greens , as in pre-Industrial Revolution England , and the greens themselves arranged like the petals of a Mower round a community building , the modern equivalent of the village inn ’ ( Wolfe , 1945 , p. 10 ) . |
| 26 | Words Children want to use , by Amy Brown , John Downing and John Sceats , which is worth reading , and the dictionaries themselves are good for primary schools . |
| 27 | And the sows themselves are now a different shape . |
| 28 | Locomotives and the routes themselves have always attracted authors in profusion but in recent years that trend has been punctuated by some useful and illuminating titles on passenger and freight vehicles . |
| 29 | Especially when the complainant 's village was relatively remote and the headmen themselves in league with the thieves , the long trip to court with little prospect of success was made even more unattractive by the possibility of violence . |
| 30 | At this time brambles are dormant , the sap is within the ground and the brambles themselves have become dry . |