Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 2 | Prescriptions presuppose interpretations , but actions on the basis of such prescriptions become themselves the subject of interpretation . |
| 3 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 4 | Jacobs ' folly had been to play ‘ Ca n't Happen Here ’ ‘ by a group of American male singers calling themselves the Mothers of Invention ’ on BBC TV 's Juke Box Jury , adding that the record had been made on a ‘ trip ’ . |
| 5 | He argues that a demand which emanated from the earnings of export staples became itself the driving force behind even greater efforts to balance the increasing import of desired English manufactured goods . |
| 6 | Reuters news agency , quoting Chinese sources , reported on Feb. 6 that a group of workers calling themselves the China Free Union Preparatory Committee had posted out 2,000 copies of their anti-government manifesto for the organization , modelled on Poland 's Solidarity . |
| 7 | Back in 1983–84 , around 20 or 30 individuals styled themselves the Polo Posse — later Lo Lifes — setting out to steal ( ‘ boost ’ ) Ralph Lauren gear to wear , and resell to the growing number of black kids turning from the B-boy aesthetic to the preppy look , going from LL Cool J to LL Bean . |
| 8 | Many pressure groups set themselves the task of sedulously winning over influential opinion to their view of the future . |
| 9 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 10 | The Nazis made themselves the beneficiaries . |
| 11 | In several towns rioting broke out , rioting for peace , and Nazis found themselves the victims of the kind of abuse and maltreatment they normally handed out to others . |
| 12 | At a recent meeting of the , I believe the , first of the Estuaries Management Committee Meetings for the Orwell and the Stour I was approached by the R S P B representative and was delighted to be asked , how soon is the pamphlets that we 're jointly publishing coming out and I said , oh that 's a jolly good idea , what 's happening , and he tells me that the R Y A's name is to be published with the R S P B and this can do nothing but help our image as we will all appreciate in here , perhaps we need to remember that the gun clubs call themselves , the Gun and Convers Conservation Societies , the wide wise wild fowlers call themselves the Wild Fowlers and Conservation Societies , perhaps we should be the Royal Yachting and Conservation Society and join in with that R S P B publication for I believe quite a very small sum relative to the total outlay . |
| 13 | Our school was evacuated to Hadlow Down in Sussex , just about where the German bombers used to off-load their bombs to save themselves the trouble of having to go all the way to London . |
| 14 | She was a piano teacher ( most piano teachers give themselves the title Madam in South Wales ) , and the food was as tasteless as any I had encountered . |
| 15 | The move followed a series of attacks on white teachers by a group of pro-PAC black youths calling themselves the Revolutionary Watchdogs . |
| 16 | He himself was overthrown and killed in October 1987 by a faction of the armed forces calling itself the Popular Front , which established itself as Burkina 's source of legislative and executive power . |
| 17 | He himself was overthrown and killed in October 1987 by a faction of the armed forces calling itself the Popular Front . |
| 18 | Armed men calling themselves the Death Commandos took some two dozen Supreme Court judges and others hostage in San Jose , the capital of Costa Rica . |
| 19 | Now the tourists find themselves the underdogs with Will Carling expected to lead England to their third win in the sides ' 10th meeting . |
| 20 | … at the same time they should be getting the children to ask themselves the same questions that the staff are asking about the work . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | For a moment there was silence , as the others asked themselves the same worrying questions . |
| 23 | In the 19th Century the working classes , exasperated by their plight and the lack of initiative of their employers , formed into trades unions to give themselves the corporate strength which individuals lacked . |