Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as thinking of your aura , another way of protecting yourself while giving massage , and without blocking that all-important sensitivity , is to become a channel rather than the source of healing energies . |
| 2 | In a similar way , as we shall find later , although the widowed and still married give similar pictures of the practical division of roles in their married lives , the widowed tend to interpret these apparently similar marriages differently , remembering themselves as having been closer couples than do those who are still married . |
| 3 | They can not win , for the aim of the stressed work-force is to avoid having to embrace the discomfiting uncertainty by construing itself as victimized and manipulated . |
| 4 | Their approach is not simply regarded by the older men as a reflection of youthful zeal and an extravagant sense of mission , but as a means of adapting to the difficulties , as young men , of presenting themselves as possessed of legal authority ( an interesting practical recognition of the importance of interaction in securing compliance ) . |
| 5 | Political parties mobilize bias within the populations of liberal democracies , identifying potential cleavages and presenting themselves as representing the interests of one group more than those of any other ( while recognizing that , for the state to retain its legitimacy , it is necessary to respect the interests of other groups , and thereby present a ‘ one nation ’ perspective in certain situations ) . |
| 6 | At present , any government can simply print currency and spend it , enriching itself while impoverishing its citizens . |
| 7 | She reiterated the Governments view ’ first expressed by us in 1985 that the majority of full-time students should not have access to benefits as a means of supporting themselves whilst studying . ’ |
| 8 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 9 | So the tax-avoiders and evaders , it seems , justify their actions by perceiving themselves as exploited by society , rather than as exploiters of it . |
| 10 | v. Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food the Court of Appeal , while regarding itself as bound by the view that Article 86 gave rise to a claim for damages , held that another directly applicable provision , Article 30 ( dealing with quantitative restrictions on imports ) attracted only the remedy of judicial review . |
| 11 | She might well say that she would have a different sense of herself as well had she grown up counting herself as made in God 's image . |
| 12 | Whatever the brutality of their methods , or the tactlessness of their secular claims , there is no doubt that both Henry VIII and Somerset were also motivated by religious considerations , seeing themselves as releasing Scottish Protestants from Catholic bondage ; old claims had a dramatic new dimension . |
| 13 | It is a collection of individuals sharing some common purpose under a common leader , and seeing themselves as having a common identity . |
| 14 | In some continental European countries , where workers were confronted with deep-seated social and political inequities , unions have been markedly political in orientation , seeing themselves as committed and class-oriented agents of social change on behalf of all workers , and not merely union members . |
| 15 | The bishops , conceiving of themselves as a body supported by the Holy Spirit in their proclamation of morality and seeing themselves as following the equally and divinely guided line laid down by Pope John-Paul II , were assuming that the opposition to state legislation permitting divorce was of a similar standing and status to the Christian belief that Christian marriage was forever . |