Example sentences of "the [noun] [pn reflx] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The building itself a glass , steel , concrete and wooden structure is anything but sepulchral .
2 Many observers also underestimated the strength of disillusionment with Carter 's record : his administration appeared formless and accident-prone , and the President himself a man who know how to gain power but how to use it .
3 This does not make the exchange itself a party to the agreement .
4 Fur the modernists , on the other hand , history seemed not progress but nightmare , and the clock itself a threat .
5 Within the forests themselves a number of features should be looked for .
6 Landmarks he had completely forgotten seemed to materialise before his mesmerised gaze — like the moat of Hugh de Lacy 's twelfth-century castle , now overgrown and weed-filled , the castle itself a ruin , and in front of it at the end of Granard 's gently curving single street the already greying walls of St Mary 's Church that his labouring father had helped to build .
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