Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At its heart lie two raised mires of deep peat , wildernesses of scattered birch , where adders sun themselves among the fern , and amber dragonflies haunt the peaty pools . |
| 2 | They have used them already to build communal tents , to extrude life-lines guiding them over plants , or ropes to let themselves down from one twig to another . |
| 3 | All allegations should be regarded as serious , especially those made by close relatives , friends or neighbours , or by children or parents referring themselves for help , and investigated urgently ( p.21 ) . |
| 4 | For instance , there are firms or individuals describing themselves as ‘ chartered accountants ’ when they are not entitled to do so and where none of the principals involved is qualified to audit . |
| 5 | In the case of an underlease the subtenant should always require right of the superior lease or leases to satisfy itself that there are no restrictions likely to affect the subtenant 's proposed use of the premises . |
| 6 | Accordingly you may have to adapt the day 's menu or recipes to suit yourself . |
| 7 | At the time it seemed senselessly cruel , but it often proved justifiable in the end : some girls who married Englishmen or Americans found themselves very unhappy in their new life , and eventually returned to Italy . |
| 8 | where women examine themselves erm , if its the mother or the granny er did I bring him up wrongly , erm the girl friends or wife 's er is it something that I did n't understand and at the same time it er really changes their lives |
| 9 | First , they may have difficulty in obtaining the permission of their employers or colleagues to absent themselves from work while on council business . |
| 10 | At one time , people thought that birds transformed themselves into other creatures during the winter . |
| 11 | Coming from Russia , where freedom of the press has been not so much unknown as uncomprehended since long before the Revolution , he is shocked to discover that a free press disseminated all kinds of false , partial and invented information and that journalists contradict themselves from one day to the next without shame and without apology . |
| 12 | Once it was recognized that animals orient themselves in a variety of ways , the engineering approach was extremely successful in identifying the underlying mechanisms . |
| 13 | She did n't realize it was in the blood and not on the skin ; she did n't see there could be nothing more suburban than suburbanites repudiating themselves . |
| 14 | Hayek , for example , believes that conservatives deceive themselves when they blame the evils of our time on democracy . |
| 15 | ‘ It is vital that companies prepare themselves for the new Europe and this initiative will help firms in the south . |
| 16 | Those possibilities are seen as restricted and , although many would not agree with Jackson 's controversial view that all blacks go through stages of white envy , all would appreciate the point that blacks resign themselves to more limited prospects . |
| 17 | First , the synchronized nature of the 1970–1 recession meant that governments found themselves simultaneously at a similar , recessionary phase of the cycle . |
| 18 | The fact that Christians find themselves caught up with a religion that is no longer related to work or community life , but instead to leisure , tells us something about the whole process of privatisation . |
| 19 | It is true that there were unforeseen obstacles for Hibs to overcome — not least of which was an ankle injury to goalkeeper Chris Reid who was stretchered off after 37 minutes after a 50-50 challenge with Colin West — but it was difficult to disagree with Alex Miller 's belief that Hibs shot themselves in the foot . |
| 20 | The reason for this difference is that businesses see themselves as having a pool of resources which can be used in any aspect of their business to achieve their overall objective , e.g. to achieve a satisfactory return on capital . |
| 21 | So it is not by ‘ their own real or absolute extension that bodies present themselves to our minds ’ , and we have no reason not to conclude that ‘ they are not extended in themselves ’ . |
| 22 | We all know that parachutes form themselves into a hemispherical shape as they fill with air ; but , for simplicity , it is better if we follow Hugh 's example and assume that we are dealing with a flat disc . |
| 23 | It is this ‘ position ’ that homosexuals find themselves in modern Britain that requires further consideration . |
| 24 | Shelduck first bred in Sussex in 1904 but , although numbers established themselves round Chichester and Pagham Harbours fairly quickly , colonisation of the rest of the county has been slow and the breeding population is still mainly concentrated around these two harbours . |
| 25 | Even extremists of the 1960s , who believed that the task of a school was to ensure that children enjoyed themselves while they were pupils , must have had in mind , as well , some further outcome , some advantage that would flow in the long run to the children who had been encouraged , under that regime , to ‘ grow ’ and ‘ blossom ’ and ‘ flourish ’ in the ‘ learning situation ’ provided by the class-room . |
| 26 | The best we can do is raise our own children differently ( a project that will fail , ironically , to the extent that children model themselves on the unreconstructed adults they encounter ! ) |
| 27 | That 's to say that men embody themselves in partial versions of themselves , and then , in order to realize themselves more fully , they have to overcome by many kinds of struggle this previous realization . |
| 28 | Women were found to be more likely than men to poison themselves after receiving psychotropics , and patients aged between 15 and 29 years had the highest rates . |
| 29 | Only with the development of factions and the growth of the party system did it come about that monarchs found themselves confronted , in Cabinet , by Ministers presenting a united front on matters on which they had previously deliberated in the absence of the monarch . |
| 30 | Although environmentalists declared themselves disappointed at the outcome of the meeting , they acknowledged that substantial progress towards some form of comprehensive protection for Antarctica 's environment had been achieved . |