Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drug barons have themselves become substantial land holders , effectively controlling several departments . |
| 2 | But when Britain went off the Gold Standard in 1931 , the Champagne houses found themselves receiving just two-thirds of the price they had come to expect . |
| 3 | The cam lever goes to C. The side levers position themselves — they 're not under the knitter 's control . |
| 4 | But this type of contact also demonstrates that the neighbourhood police see themselves as having a welfare function . |
| 5 | Hybrid vigour may well have contributed to the robustness with which the ranch escapees established themselves so widely , quickly spreading along the waterways and coasts and filling a niche left virtually empty after the removal by gamekeepers of otters , stoats and polecats . |
| 6 | the research topics lend themselves to publication in Nature rather than to other journals ; |
| 7 | the research topics lend themselves to publication in Nature rather than to other journals ; |
| 8 | Gómez , who was judged seriously to have weakened the conservative constituency by breaking from the PSC to form the MSN , had also proposed that cocaine be legalized internationally in order to undermine cartel power , and that the UN narcotics commission should directly intervene to produce a peace formula which would enable the cartel chiefs to surrender themselves . |
| 9 | Some chemists are asking how the carbon atoms sort themselves out when making the football structure . |
| 10 | In October 1972 , at a Summit in Paris , the Community leaders committed themselves to EMU , which was to be achieved by 1980 . |
| 11 | And as Laz reached the lift , this very same reader now observed the Repo Men form themselves into a firing line and cock their weapons noisily . |
| 12 | About 1,000 of the PKK forces gave themselves up to Iraqi Kurds who moved them to camps south of the Turkish border . |
| 13 | They are compelled to do this because most of the forest trees protect themselves against molesters with a poisonous sap . |
| 14 | Simple random sampling can be achieved even when no frame is available but where the population members present themselves one at a time as potential sample members . |
| 15 | The former Swansea City player unleashed a spectacular strike in front of the television cameras to put himself in contention for goal of the month . |
| 16 | Well er the bills during the month of December and early January erm hire of waste paper skip erm if you if query , the reason we hired the chain saws to save ourselves spending thousands of pounds on doing tree works . |
| 17 | In his opus , Irenaeus fulminates against a group whom he calls the ‘ Ebionites ’ — a term used by the writers of the Qumran texts to describe themselves , which can be translated as , simply , ‘ the Poor ’ . |
| 18 | Of late years the Westminster scholars amused themselves with tearing it to pieces ; and one in particular , who bore a principal character in the police of India , lies under the imputation of having contributed in an especial manner to that havoc . |
| 19 | If so , they might persuade the queue members to bind themselves to wait in line , and to punish transgressors . |
| 20 | The Capital Letters hurl themselves like javelins across your living room and impale themselves in your ears with an audible splat . |
| 21 | This enabled the barley growers to organise themselves effectively to protest to the authorities about their loss of land , and to challenge the monopolistic price-fixing of ‘ middlemen ’ . |
| 22 | This can result in fast access if the application files lend themselves to this type of structure . |
| 23 | Earlier Rangers had been thinking of survival rather than victory as for the third weekend in a row the Glasgow giants found themselves seriously threatened by a club from the bottom half of the table . |
| 24 | Most of today 's great tournament fighters on the world circuits limit themselves to a few techniques that work best for them . |
| 25 | It was the City banks with mercantile connections , rather than the West End houses used by the landed classes , who moved into this relationship — less surprising than it seems , for , as Joslin pointed out , the country banks had themselves most often grown from country merchant or manufacturing activities . |
| 26 | In 1916 , many of the women compositors found themselves being called to work as Post Office clerks . |
| 27 | For meal times , the pleasant dining-room 's design is particularly spacious and in the kitchens the hotel chefs pride themselves on offering good , typically Italian style cooking at dinner and an ample breakfast each morning . |
| 28 | While the films made at the beginning of the war appealed for people to forget selfish desires and apply themselves to the common good , to put aside class divisions in order to confront an enemy that threatened everyone equally , the Gainsborough films addressed themselves to the frustrations and the pain that came after continuous self-sacrifice . |
| 29 | It is up to the advertiser , by careful analysis of the precise situation in which the target consumers find themselves , to identify the appropriate stimulus , from among those available , to produce the right response among this particular target group . |
| 30 | 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 . |