Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb base] [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 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Once it was recognized that animals orient themselves in a variety of ways , the engineering approach was extremely successful in identifying the underlying mechanisms . |
| 5 | Hayek , for example , believes that conservatives deceive themselves when they blame the evils of our time on democracy . |
| 6 | ‘ It is vital that companies prepare themselves for the new Europe and this initiative will help firms in the south . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is this ‘ position ’ that homosexuals find themselves in modern Britain that requires further consideration . |
| 13 | 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 ! ) |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Further , once women get themselves into the position of dependent housewives , they have a vested interest in the maintenance of the status quo since it is too late in their lives to think of independent careers , and sexual freedom merely means the freedom for their husbands to seek younger women . |
| 16 | Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs , so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which , in the broad sense , can be called imitation . |
| 17 | School meals need to be marketed to school children in the same way that brewers market themselves , Theo Goldberg , managing director of marketing firm IMCOT , recently told the Local Authority Caterers Association annual conference . |
| 18 | THE oft fickle world of fashion has a lot to answer for with its shapes and sizes demanding that women change themselves to fit the latest trend or quirk . |
| 19 | What has changed in human relations between men and women , or how is it that women sense themselves differently , such that this matter has become urgent ? |
| 20 | Statistics show that women allow themselves to be interrupted 50 per cent more often than men . |
| 21 | Furthermore , most migrants defined themselves as English speakers : it must be said that Jamaicans consider themselves speakers of English , and are offended when ignorant English people inquire what their mother tongue might be . |
| 22 | I mean what is the purpose of all this , bringing the cost of living down — I do n't know , a thousand things that politicians pride themselves on doing — it seems to me that they all should be taking second place to the lives that up and coming generations are going to live . |
| 23 | This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same . |
| 24 | Frogs and birds pamper themselves with plumes of pampas grass |
| 25 | As was noted , the forms in which relations and attitudes express themselves are largely conventional . |
| 26 | In my garden the yellow Welsh poppy , Meconopsis cambrica , Corydalia lutea , alkanet , the evening primrose , Oenothera perennis , Alchemilla mollis and forget-me-nots seed themselves freely around . |
| 27 | As he held her she seemed to swell , as if another skin , another body , more calm and perfect than the one she had , grew out of her as token for that love of him which could in looks and words show itself so inadequately . |
| 28 | These are practical sessions where students and tutors prepare themselves for work with children in the second half of the term . |
| 29 | Their leaves , stems and branches orientate themselves to the light , while their roots seek out minerals and water . |
| 30 | If subroutines call themselves recursively , a stack must be implemented to hold the return addresses . |