Example sentences of "be [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers often have more problems with the concept than children : pre-school children will often play with adults , asking them to assume roles ( the shopkeeper , the bus conductor ) ; children who play in this way are used to moving in and out of role , are quite happy for an adult to be in their play one moment and to be themselves the next . |
| 2 | It is as if Ted Hughes were himself the patient , suffering maybe from impotence or castration fears , and was here attempting an autotherapy with Shakespeare as a dummy . |
| 3 | The Mayor and his friends were themselves the criminals , hand in glove with the smugglers whose leader Jake was clearly an old ally . |
| 4 | The mistrust which their recent sufferings had engendered against all Turks made it impossible for the Serbs to collaborate with the more reasonable spahis , who were themselves the victims of the janissaries , whose leaders were known as dayis . |
| 5 | The protests were accompanied by at least eight cases of self-immolation , several of which resulted in deaths and were themselves the focus of further protests . |
| 6 | Local peace initiative activities were themselves the targets of violence attacks . |
| 7 | He again argued that cities were themselves the cauldron in which the transition from the old to the new societies was taking place ; and , crucially , cities were themselves actively generating a new way of life . |
| 8 | Indeed , when Mt Rowland and Lonrho were themselves the subjects of a DTI inspectors ' report in 1976 , they had no such protection . |
| 9 | Rather Marx and Engels sought to show how social relations are themselves the product of the social system in which they occur , of the way the material conditions of existence are organized and regulated , a system which is itself the product of history or of the particular stage of evolution . |
| 10 | If it is to work properly , there must be a number of special protein and RNA molecules present , but these molecules are themselves the products of an earlier decoding process . |
| 11 | Not only do they record the history of their localities , they are themselves the product of history , played on a far wider stage . |
| 12 | If it could be shown that , as some holists contend , those individual actions , decisions and choices which are appealed to in explanation , are themselves the causal outcomes of various larger states of social affairs , then individuals would not be of any special interest . |
| 13 | He says , for instance , that the conditions of a major contradiction are themselves the ‘ fusion ’ of an accumulation of contradictions . |
| 14 | But might they not also serve to overcome properties of the individual members of a society which are themselves the result of other social practices ? |
| 15 | Talents , he says , are themselves the product of social relations , and only appear when social conditions allow . |
| 16 | The talents of individuals , it suggests , are themselves the outcome of , and are explained by , various aspects of the social environment . |
| 17 | Crimes thus come about through human beings interpreting and applying rules ( which are themselves the product of human deliberation ) to the actions of others . |
| 18 | From this point of view , societal characteristics can not be explained as the product of actors ' choices , since these choices are themselves the product of socialisation . |
| 19 | Yet wider cultural influences , many of them associated with the decline of the traditional rural way of life , are working to undermine the customary expectations of the farm worker — particularly when we consider this on an intergenerational basis-For example , a large majority of agricultural workers currently engaged by the industry are themselves the sons of farm workers — probably more than two-thirds . |
| 20 | It starts from a belief that ‘ social order ’ or ‘ industrial peace ’ are themselves the problem : conflict is a way of instituting necessary revolutionary change . |
| 21 | If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute . |
| 22 | It would be better to say perhaps that electoral systems reinforce existing tendencies , because such systems are themselves the product of diverse constellations of political interests and parties , and of changes in those constellations . |
| 23 | Does he think that such an argument will help him , given that the objections come from the doctors , nurses and auxiliaries , who are themselves the health of the hospital , and who will be responsible for its continuing health ? |
| 24 | In the absence of our little lepidopterous friends in the Butterflies on a Burning Night it is presumably the two standing figures who are themselves the ( social ) butterflies . |
| 25 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
| 26 | ‘ You are yourself the water of life ; what shall discover that water , save the tearful eye ? ’ |
| 27 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |
| 28 | Indeed , it was pointed out in Henry Kendall ( 1969 ) that if the seller is himself the manufacturer of the goods the implied condition will normally apply . |
| 29 | One can then choose to say either that it constitutes the difference by virtue of having a particular internal ‘ feel ’ associated with it , or that it is itself the difference , simpliciter . |
| 30 | Although the sport and television market appears to be a free-for-all to delight the most Darwinist of entrepreneurs , a scrutiny of those top five private networks soon reveals that four of them are in the hands of a holding firm called Finvest , which is itself the broadcasting vehicle of the Socialist-leaning businessman Silvio Berlusconi . |