Example sentences of "[pn reflx] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Gandhi maintains that by means of prayer he invokes the divinity within himself it is evident that he draws no hard-and-fast distinction between the Self or Ātman within and God or Truth . |
| 2 | He tells himself it is only panic . |
| 3 | Mind or memory is that total creative capacity for consciousness , which also contains that which is below the level of immediate recognition — man 's full potential for knowledge , which is like God himself It is the theatre of human integrity which involves the other two faculties , " resoun " and " will " . |
| 4 | The Billy Graham organisation used to estimate that only ten per cent of their crowds came as a direct result of advertising and , generally speaking , I find that by itself it is the least cost-effective way of marketing events ; the most effective being personal invitation . |
| 5 | In itself it is of no great importance , but it may serve as a pointer to the presence of other sexually transmitted infection . |
| 6 | By contrast a strong sense of duty may present a moral dilemma in undertaking caring , for by itself it is a cheerless framework for entering a close and inevitably intimate relationship . |
| 7 | In itself it is not a new idea , and it shares much with the combined method which was the basis for deaf education in the UK in the 19th century . |
| 8 | In itself it is neutral — neither good nor bad . |
| 9 | Semantic memory can not work in this way , since in itself it is partly responsible for performing this function . |
| 10 | On the other hand , by itself it is entirely stupid , able to take no decisions other than those included in its programme and entirely dependent on the skill and foresight of programmers and questioners . |
| 11 | This may , indeed , have some merit , but by itself it is not likely to help with decisions about major investments to keep up with the technological race . |
| 12 | In itself it is valuable , being recently translated from the original Greek and annotated by a king . ’ |
| 13 | During 1991 and after 10 years of negotiations , the START treaty was signed , and in itself it is indeed only a start as it still leaves enormous stockpiles of delivery systems and nuclear warheads , enough to reduce most of our planet to a radioactive cinder heap . |
| 14 | This ability to create a coherent world , recognisable as such but differing from the reader 's experience , but above all involving no false note or anachronism , is an essential of all great novelists , but of itself it is not a recipe for success . |
| 15 | During Christian Aid Week itself it is the finds we make for customers that delight us , whether it is discovering just the right dictionary to fit the schoolbag of the 7-year-old son of a young bus-driver , just one number of the National Geographic magazine to complete someone 's sequence , or some early Penguins or American periodicals for the University or National Library collections . |
| 16 | I do still have to pinch myself every now and again to convince myself it is really happening … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I do still pinch myself from time to time to convince myself it is really happening . ’ |
| 18 | True , Kant thinks that if morality is ultimately valid it is because we have somehow settled on these imperatives ourselves at the noumenal level , but to this — apart from the dubiousness of the metaphysics — it is likely to be objected that if the imperatives spring from myself it is quite proper for me to rescind them when convenient . |
| 19 | Although they suffer from a shortage of personnel themselves it is the young churches who are now providing the Church with missionaries . |
| 20 | If the Mujahideen divide up the country among themselves it is likely that the big divide would be along these mountains , which would then become the new division between Central Asia and the Indian sub-continent . |
| 21 | For the felines themselves it is almost like a modern rebirth of the senseless persecution of the Medieval period , when they were accused of being servants of Satan . |
| 22 | But for the candidates themselves it is perfectly horrid . |
| 23 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 24 | But when the state collects taxes in order to provide some of its citizens with services which they were capable of obtaining for themselves it is perpetrating a grave act of injustice on the taxpayers . |
| 25 | With the Swiss themselves it is a great favourite as one of the most varied and beautiful walking areas in the country ; in addition when it comes to food , the country towns and inns of the Emmental enjoy an exceptional reputation even for Switzerland , a reputation that one tends to link with the Emmental farming communities ' repute as the foremost pioneers of Swiss agriculture . |
| 26 | It 's helpful in the context of the dollar preference shares we want to issue because one of the factors of this very small , and as you say cheap er , historic issue of preference shares is that , er no preference shares other than those can be repaid prior to that and the dollar shares we wish to issue which are permanent shares , can be er , can be erm repaid at our option and we do want to keep that flexibility in the context of either if interest rates get very high or if the tax treaty between the U S and the U K changes to make them more onerous on the company and in those circumstances we would be inhibited by the existence of this small historic issue of preference shares and therefore it is on balance , although you 're quite right there , a cheap er , source of capital in themselves it is helpful to the company in the wider sense I believe if they are repaid . |
| 27 | If you are putting the lift in and paying for it yourself it is wise to take out a maintenance agreement and add the lift to your Home Contents Insurance . |
| 28 | Even if you have never given a bottle feed yourself it is possible that the baby received one from a nurse while in the maternity ward . |
| 29 | To protect yourself it is important that your conditions of sale and your terms of credit are known and agreed to by your customer at or prior to the point of sale . |
| 30 | But if you do n't value or love yourself it is very easy not to love or value other people . |