Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [coord] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We have a lot to do in communications among ourselves and between the different disciplines and different complementary approaches .
2 ‘ 2(1) A person 's appropriation of property belonging to another is not to be regarded as dishonest — ( a ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that he has in law the right to deprive the other of it , on behalf of himself or of a third person ; or ( b ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew of the appropriation and the circumstances of it ; or ( c ) ( except where the property came to him as trustee or personal representative ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that the person to whom the property belongs can not be discovered by taking reasonable steps .
3 Two such distinct behaviours can at times be observed , either by the participant himself or by an outside observer .
4 Roebuck positioned and braced himself and at the precise moment drove his shoulder into Shelford 's midriff , stopped him instantaneously , before driving him into the Onewa Domain turf .
5 He began experimenting with other drugs in use at the time and , using his extensive knowledge of botany , he investigated the effects of a number of medicinal plants , both on himself and on a small circle of friends and pupils .
6 The author met the leopard a couple of days later on a forest track looking very sorry for himself and with a broken tail !
7 Such recall led the individual to a deeper understanding of himself and of the traumatic effect on his life of the hitherto ‘ forgotten ’ incidents .
8 The Sandinistas in government are somewhat at a loss for their own charismatic figure , but continue to draw amply on the ( revised ) ideology and mythology of Sandino himself and of the martyred heroes of the revolution .
9 Whereas similar protests in December 1986 ( which had led to the eventual abandonment of a programme backed by the International Monetary Fumd ( IMF ) — see p. 34923 ) had focused only on economic grievances , discontent now extended to the role of Kaunda himself and to the entrenched position of the ruling United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) as the sole legal party .
10 Dangerous , that was , to himself and to the snoring Matchsticks beside him .
11 She goes up to him and tells him to stuff himself and in a flat half-minute he 's belting the old lorry up the London road .
12 Reagan rarely used the term ‘ supply side ’ himself and in the long run shrank from the full implications of the theory .
13 But he said Labour did not agree that Britain could or should abandon development , either for itself or for the developing world .
14 Habermas argues that crises have been displaced from the economic realm into the state apparatus itself or into the cultural system ( see pp. 264–69 ) .
15 Are we to consider it an activity in itself or as an instrumental activity significant only in terms of ends ?
16 Retail publications , too , are more likely to be interested in close-ups of the product itself or in the promotional and publicity material which will help them to sell it .
17 A proposal to this effect could be made from within the Congress itself or by a two-thirds majority of the USSR Supreme Soviet , but subject to findings by the USSR Committee for the Supervision of the Constitution .
18 An instructive example of this approach is to be found in German law , in which we find a general right of recovery which is subject to the principle that an administrative act is , even if in fact unlawful , treated as legally effective unless and until it is cancelled , either by the authority itself or by an administrative court .
19 Only in recent years has there been a sustained attempt by Marxist thinkers to re-examine in a thoroughgoing fashion the relation between the state , the economy and social classes , or to analyse that historical experience which reveals the emergence of a new type of authoritarian state from the revolutionary process itself or from the centralized control of a socialist economy .
20 ‘ Fundamental questions are being posed at the same time about the company itself and about the strategic character of the industry . ’
21 But as society developed , men began to take control of the world and felt their separation from it ; instead of seeing themselves as deeply identified with their environment , people became aware of the personality as perspicacious to itself and as a unique , distinct entity .
22 The major costof the surgical procedure relates to the operation itself and to the postoperative hospital stay .
23 Thus , the study emphasises the role of social attitudes in second language learning , ie. attitudes towards learning the second language itself and towards the native speakers who make up the second language community .
24 The MPRP needs to improve itself and at the same time if new parties are formed for the interest of the people and the country , they should be competing on equal terms . "
25 Two broad groups seem to emerge from the known evidence ( fig. 8 ) , each with a different level of impact on the defended area itself and on the extra-mural suburbs .
26 But enthusiasm for war itself and for an apocalyptic struggle for ‘ living space ’ was difficult to raise outside circles of nazified youth , the SS , and Party fanatics .
27 But the most important flaw in the instruction has been that it has been too often divorced from the classroom itself and from the active involvement of the teacher .
28 The morning was taken up by the competition itself and after a good lunch in the Clubhouse , a fun game was organised in the afternoon .
29 This restructuring approach argued that it was necessary to look at what was happening within industry itself and in the wider economy .
30 Again , however , the precise definition of literacy , and its location in that particular society , tends to get forgotten in grand general claims for the consequences of ‘ literacy ’ itself and in the general distinction between ‘ literate ’ and ‘ non-literate ’ societies .
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