Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So good can the simulation be that the player handling the joystick receives a powerful illusion that he himself is part of the counterfeit world . |
| 2 | It is the fungi that they themselves eat . |
| 3 | This increase comes from improved productivity , longer working hours , higher rates , or from a percentage of the earnings of labourers and craftsmen that they themselves employ . |
| 4 | But equally , Gale gives no indication that he himself has understood how obviously ridiculous Lamarck 's theories of physics and chemistry were in his own day — and it was on these that his theory of evolution was based . |
| 5 | She would raise her lamp and view the lover that she herself had grown , even if this meant that she must lose him for ever . |
| 6 | The opportunities for domestic conflict are obvious , but at the same time the older generation of farm workers are made more aware of the opportunities that they themselves missed and of their lowly economic position compared with workers in other industries . |
| 7 | For a while she behaved wisely or cunningly — by allowing her ministers to give formal recognition to the ways of the reformed church on condition that she herself was allowed to worship in the old way in the privacy of her own chapel at Holyrood . |
| 8 | During the second section I will look at the activities that I myself was involved with during my time in post . |
| 9 | The landed gentry planted for their grandchildren avenues of hardwood that they themselves would never see . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend does not , I think , dissent from that , but he has questioned local planning authorities ' deciding planning proposals that they themselves have originated and in particular the position of the county council in relation to the district council . |
| 11 | Parents deny their children the outdoor play that they themselves enjoyed . |
| 12 | if you actually went through the experience that they themselves were |
| 13 | For the worry that they themselves might go down the same road meant that they could see that teachers who were now ‘ like that ’ had once been enthusiastic , committed students like themselves . |
| 14 | I can demonstrate the manner in which these two members of the court dealt with this submission by citing some passages from their judgment , without reference to the numerous authorities that they themselves cited , at pp. 358–360 : |
| 15 | He said : ‘ This Government is asking the long-term sick to bear an unfair burden to bale Mr Major out of the mess that he himself has created . ’ |
| 16 | In this way he forces the reader to go through the same process of retrospective illumination that he himself has undergone . |
| 17 | The attitude that you yourself hold towards your jobs in life will be reflected by those with whom you come into contact , either in business or in private life . |
| 18 | It puts into operation on a more comprehensive scale a proposal for English teaching pedagogy that I myself put forward , speculatively , as appropriate for the Indian context ( Widdowson 1968 ) . |
| 19 | Man 's discovery that he himself , like other living creatures , is born and dies must have led him intuitively to try to circumvent the relentless flux of time by seeking to perpetuate his own existence indefinitely . |
| 20 | Dahl tends to view elites as a species of potential conspiracy against the public interest ; this is one reason why he rejects the accusation that he himself is a surreptitious elitist and why he prefers to refer to ‘ polyarchy ’ . |
| 21 | They left Verdeţ unsure about how Ceauşescu would react to the miners ' insistence that he himself should come . |
| 22 | He knew the figures , the likelihood that she herself had been the victim of abuse was quite high . |
| 23 | She had succeeded in putting Luke out of her thoughts by concentrating purely on each present moment , each new impression , with the same degree of single-mindedness that he himself was capable of , and with a sense of pleasant anticipation she studied her map and set out to see some of the art treasures . |
| 24 | Indeed the silk that we ourselves spin and weave into the most luxurious of all our fabrics is unwound from the cocoon that silk-moth caterpillars weave around themselves before they start the complex process of changing into adults . |
| 25 | To the point that she herself felt distinctly out of things at first . |
| 26 | He made the mistake of attributing to the press the importance that they themselves give to newspapers and journalists . |
| 27 | I can argue that Greenfield does not make this explicit because she is taking for granted conventions that she herself has learnt in the western education system and which she expects her readers to share . |
| 28 | The horses ' drinking-water tank had been topped up , she said , by a hosepipe from the city 's water supply during the first twenty minutes of our stop in Thunder Bay , in a procedure that she herself had supervised . |
| 29 | No well I 've just had erm an interview and erm really just exploring the things that I myself thought of trying |
| 30 | Richards saw that Woolley was trying to do more than train them , and lead them , and pass on the lessons of experience : he was also struggling to turn each of them into the kind of person that he himself had become . |