Example sentences of "[noun] [pn reflx] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his well-known ‘ boutades ’ against politicians Pétain appeared to fear no one ; to Poincaré he once remarked acidly that ‘ nobody was better placed than the President himself to be aware that France was neither led nor governed . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps you even bear a secret claim by King Edward himself to be ruler of Scotland ! ’ |
| 3 | Many adults have grown up in an environment in which they have picked up extremely infantile notions — notions which have never been challenged directly , but which , because of their almost total inadequacy and failure to square with other knowledge and experience , cause religion itself to be rejected as people become more sophisticated in other departments of life and other areas of knowledge . |
| 4 | Either side , or the jury , could ask for the tape itself to be played during the trial and the judge would almost always accede ; difficulties might arise where the tape contained objectionable or inadmissible evidence , for example , references to previous convictions , but these could usually be overcome . |
| 5 | In the USA it is not uncommon for the recordings themselves to be broadcast on domestic television or radio in news or current affairs programmes , while in Australia , at the other extreme , the pilot 's union has an agreement that the CVR will not even be examined by official investigators unless the flight crew are killed . |
| 6 | The use of three-dimensional shapes for printing gives opportunity for the shapes themselves to be compared and discussed . |
| 7 | Shd educ ourselves to be dply & bttrly prej — agnst prej ! ’ |
| 8 | The jury found the libel itself to be worth only £5,000 . |
| 9 | I nevertheless felt the wood itself to be worth searching , and the path which I had hopes for was only a part of the whole site . |
| 10 | Noninstrumental considerations do that because they show consent itself to be independently valuable . |
| 11 | However , he added , for self-assessment to work , the tax has to be simple enough for taxpayers themselves to be able to fill in their own tax returns . |
| 12 | There were even some calls for the BSP itself to be banned . |
| 13 | By 750 the time had come for the caliphate itself to be transformed and for the Umayyad regime to be dislodged . |
| 14 | I could see no prospects myself of being released in much under twelve months . |
| 15 | And it slopes towards the window so I 've actually taken the measurement nearest the erm windows itself to be on the safe side . |
| 16 | He called for Russia 's relations with the other union republics and with the union itself to be regulated by separate treaties , and for a union treaty to be renegotiated by a conference of parliamentarians from the union republics which would work out " new , mutually acceptable forms of community " without " prior political and economic conditions " . |
| 17 | The first pack concentrated on the individual 's renewal of personal faith , the second looked at the need for the Church itself to be open to , and continually responsive to the message of Christ through growth , development and change from within . |
| 18 | Kevin stands to have his licence endorsed , and the BA itself to be fined . |
| 19 | It is thus similar to Warhol 's silk-screens , which problematizes , not just high art , but also the real in that it reveals reality itself to be composed of images . |
| 20 | Whilst many people have written to say that they found the letter itself to be interesting and factual , the view has also been forcefully expressed that the quotation on the envelope implies a view that rape is somehow wrong , and to be opposed , only or primarily insofar as it may reduce a woman 's chances of marriage . |
| 21 | Consider the sentences in ( 10 ) with their sequences of verbs followed by adverbs or adverb phrases : ( 10 ) Farjeon clumsily undressed the refugees gazed hungrily into the window the ship was drifting almost imperceptibly to leeward In the last of these three cases nobody would understand the ship itself to be " almost imperceptible " ; in the second sentence , on the other hand , it is the refugees who are hungry ; gazes , whatever they may imply to a sensitive observer , do not experience hunger . |
| 22 | If the application is urgent , eg for a non-molestation injunction under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 and there is no judge sitting , the court office will say at what court there is a judge and the application may be made and heard at that court , but the more usual practice is for the application itself to be made in the court which would otherwise have been appropriate , with the papers and order being sent back to that court after the hearing . |
| 23 | Beds enable the children themselves to be patients . |
| 24 | The idea was that the women should run the house themselves , but there was a series of crises ( husbands discovering the address , a fight between two of the women , harassment from a gang of local kids — and the children themselves to be looked after ) which meant that a couple of the support group had to be around most of the time . |
| 25 | By the fifth week , La Croix was linking names of bishops with the general gist of what they had said in the debates : its editor had the good fortune himself to be a peritus . |
| 26 | access to the archiving system itself to be limited by password or other means of authentication to the system manager |
| 27 | The practice is for the second copy of the Request to be retained in the files of the Central Authority as a record of its action in the matter , and for the second copy of the document itself to be returned with the completed Certificate of service so as to eliminate any doubt as to which document is covered by the Certificate . |
| 28 | Sparks flew on the set of Strangers When We Meet in 1960 when Douglas replaced Glenn Ford who refused to work with leading lady Kim Novak who had something of a reputation herself for being difficult . |
| 29 | It 's a kind of exam — and it 's important to school yourself to be good at exams . |
| 30 | Clicking on OK causes the slide itself to be shown — in other words the view automatically changes to the Slide Editor . |