Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these unthinkable night-thoughts thinks itself now : it 's because of Summerchild that I 'm sitting here stroking Timmy 's head . |
| 2 | According to Langford , ‘ The traveller who visits [ Birmingham ] once in six months supposes himself well acquainted with her , but he may chance to find a street of houses in the autumn , where he saw his horse at grass in the spring . ’ |
| 3 | JOHN SESSIONS describes himself as an actor , comedian and writer , in that order . |
| 4 | Sending such digital signals lends itself well to using light along optical fibres rather than electrical signals along copper wires . |
| 5 | The Seventh , however , is reined back to the point of stodginess , at least until the white-hot finale and even there one of the trumpets forgets himself in the last three bars . |
| 6 | The influence of these broad parameters makes itself felt in the opening pages of the Report , to the extent that the Committee is prepared to revise its very terms of reference in the light of its wider concerns . |
| 7 | The red-haired baby with the bright blue eyes heaves himself up to a standing position , staggers , then sits down abruptly with a look of mild surprise . |
| 8 | A further example is when an organisation which has been trading for many decades finds itself increasingly out of touch with the market and the organisation 's internal culture and style is no longer appropriate to the markets it is trying to address . |
| 9 | Anyone who takes on public duties sets himself up for attack , and in Rees-Mogg 's case , the succession of posts was dizzying . |
| 10 | To alleviate the symptoms , about one in five diabetics in rich countries injects himself regularly with insulin . |
| 11 | But then Alton Towers prides itself on not being a theme park . |
| 12 | But this moral relationship can only produce its effect if the real distance between individuals has itself diminished in some way . |
| 13 | In fact , the chapter on the universities concerns itself with uses of English well beyond the boundaries of the English school : |
| 14 | The President of the National Assembly and former Prime Minister , Laurent Fabius , has spoken of ‘ the general crisis of politics … the malaise of a society which has lost all its landmarks translates itself into a suspicion of political parties and into a rise of anti-parliamentarianism ’ . |
| 15 | Less than a week after riots over price rises in basic commodities left 22 dead in the greatest upheaval since independence 18 years ago , the Consultative Group of donor governments finds itself reviewing Malawi 's human rights record with two large question marks hanging over the debate . |
| 16 | Moreover , everyone who holds cash or non-interest-bearing deposits in banks finds himself in the camp of the wealth-losing lenders . |
| 17 | " The owner who " dedicates ' his woodlands binds himself , and his successors in title , not to use the lands so dedicated for any purpose other than forestry — they are managed solely for timber production . |
| 18 | The basic complexity is one of asymmetry , which in these conditions shows itself as a deepseated contradiction between the reproduction of market relations ( both directly , within the market , and indirectly , within state and educational functions ) and the consequences of such reproduction in certain sensitive and perhaps crucial areas of public morality , respect for authority and actual crime . |
| 19 | The intense visual concentration and the technical discipline underlying these paintings transmits itself to the spectator in a feeling of tension , almost of unrest . |
| 20 | Again , an analogy with women 's potential for more intense and prolonged sexual pleasures suggests itself . |
| 21 | However , subsequent thinkers have often seen his claim as in effect about the meaning of the word ‘ good ’ and Moore himself at times expresses himself thus . |
| 22 | The author of Acts identifies himself as a man named Luke , and modern scholars concur that he is identical with the author of Luke 's Gospel . |
| 23 | A girl lives in the image of her mother , and the mothers sees herself in the child . |
| 24 | KOONS sees himself as a direct descendant of the Baroque — ‘ Bernini and stuff like that ’ — a florid exuberance in revolt against all elitism , emotional coldness and stuffed shirts . |
| 25 | ‘ As you know , ’ he said uncertainly , ‘ the not-fully-late Lord of the Wyrmberg , Greicha the First , has stipulated that there will be no succession until one of his children feels himself — or as . |
| 26 | None of Fuller 's examples lends itself to being dealt with in this all-or-nothing way . |
| 27 | The package with its design attributes lends itself to the production of manuals and directories |
| 28 | A similarity with living organisms suggests itself , and while there are dangers in taking this analogy too far , it has proved a useful model and one which keeps cropping up in organisational analysis . |
| 29 | When the neural tube closes ( Chapter 2 ) , a group of cells detaches itself at the site of fusion and migrates to many parts of the body and differentiates into a wide variety of cell types . |
| 30 | Before the team of analysts engrosses itself into data analysis , which is partly carried out through interview and observation , it is necessary to consider the structure of the organisation and the roles played by members of the management team . |