Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 2 | The most striking results were in Moscow , where candidates belonging to an umbrella organization of reformist groups and political clubs calling itself Democratic Russia won 55 of the capital 's 65 Supreme Soviet seats , and in Leningrad , where a comparable organization calling itself Democratic Elections " 90 won 28 of the city 's 34 Supreme Soviet seats ; both organizations also won control of their respective city soviets . |
| 3 | A huge amount of political and industrial restructuring will have to take place as the east European states shake themselves down into the national structures that most suit their individual aspirations . |
| 4 | Spanish attempts to get themselves seeded ahead of England came to nothing . |
| 5 | Spanish attempts to get themselves seeded ahead of England came to nothing . |
| 6 | The biblical perspective of divine revelation is of God speaking at specific times addressing himself to particular situations . |
| 7 | Professional clubs formed themselves into limited liability companies not to speculate in the entertainment business but to make legally secure the cost of providing facilities . |
| 8 | Within the Korean community in particular , heavily armed shop-owners organized themselves in defence of their businesses . |
| 9 | Either way the working groups exposed themselves to criticism for failing to produce universal and progressive learning hierarchies . |
| 10 | From the Merovingians to the Habsburgs , European dynasties regarded themselves , and were regarded by their subjects , as enjoying a unique mandate from ‘ on high ’ . |
| 11 | Even the most well-intentioned and politically sensitive non-governmental organizations found themselves supporting projects which in the long term strengthened individuals rather than communities , unrealistically raised expectations or created unintended dependency relationships . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ No one can conceive of a revolutionary party saying that it will let enterprises or economic sectors manage themselves , ’ he says . |
| 14 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 15 | ad hoc as external courses in specific subjects present themselves . |
| 16 | The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ . |
| 17 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 18 | The voting continued throughout Monday night , eight candidates putting themselves forward for the honour . |
| 19 | We would like to se the political parties commiting themselves to an overhaul of the sentencing process to make it more rational and civilised . |
| 20 | Labour candidates found themselves pledged to unilateral disarmament , withdrawal from the European Community and an economic policy that would have brought the country to bankruptcy within weeks . |
| 21 | The site from which the mountains were drawn would be chosen so the different peaks arranged themselves to their best advantage whilst retaining their correct topographical position . |
| 22 | Many of the people are obliged to wear wet handkerchiefs to protect themselves from the strong fumes of sulphur . ’ |
| 23 | When the result — 373 votes for , 12 against — flashed up on the black and green computer screens at either end of the chamber , the assembled deputies gave themselves a short , self-congratulatory round of applause . |
| 24 | A great deal of very useful research can be carried out wholly from documentary sources of one kind or another , but often social researchers find themselves in a position where they want to investigate social behaviour on which there is very little published research or perhaps what research has been published is not relevant enough to their own particular areas of interest . |
| 25 | It flaps its wings a few times to lift itself off the ground , then simply rises up , using whatever thermals and air currents it comes across . |
| 26 | The way was thereby opened for English merchants to establish themselves in the island , and William Bolton came to Madeira as an agent for Robert Heysham of London , who had a brother in Barbados to whom Bolton shipped a large quantity of wine . |
| 27 | At other times cultural groups regard themselves in a superior relationship to other cultures . |
| 28 | They spent the next few minutes getting themselves and the canoe off the water . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to give me a few minutes to get myself ready . |
| 30 | You see towards the bottom er we pose a few questions there , I 'm going to ask you in a few minutes to introduce yourselves and to say what what sort of presentations you make at the moment . |