Example sentences of "that it [vb -s] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 2 | FACING PAGE When taking your dog to the ‘ great outdoors ’ such as here , at the Chiricahua National Monument , Arizona — ensure that it relieves itself well away from footpaths and picnic areas . |
| 3 | What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is an inner being , a soul , an inner mind , and inner life , an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in its potentialities , more plastic , more powerful , more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind , life or body ; especially , it is capable of a direct communication with the universal forces , movements , objects of the cosmos , a direct feeling and opening to them , a direct action of them and even a widening of itself beyond the limit of the personal mind , the personal life , the body , so that it feels itself more and more a universal being no longer limited by the existing walls of out too narrow mental , vital , physical existence . |
| 4 | C's attraction is that it lends itself to structured programming more readily than assembly language programming and it is within a C language shall that the assembly language modules should be inserted . |
| 5 | One reason why chalcedony has been so highly esteemed is that it lends itself to a variety of decorative treatments . |
| 6 | Israel 's uniqueness stems from the fact that it considers itself to be in a perpetual state of war with its Arab neighbours which , together with the Nazi barbarities of the last war , is somehow supposed to make the rest of the world feel permanently sorry for Israel and give it the right to carry out any intelligence operations it likes . |
| 7 | I am asking the Court further , in the event that it considers itself so empowered , to treat the case as having been referred to it by me under section 17(1) ( a ) . ’ |
| 8 | For Emile Benveniste the peculiarity of ‘ histoire ’ as opposed to ‘ discours ’ is that it tells itself , no one ‘ speaks ’ ( 1966:241 ) . |
| 9 | It is , of course , clear that the Report does not speak on behalf of working-class culture , but it should also be noted that it distances itself from the culture of the middle class ( cf. 236/256–7 ) . |
| 10 | Given that N. Langsdorfii could be a perennial in a mild winter and that it seeds itself even more freely , this could go from being a rarity to a ‘ pernicious weed ’ in record time . |
| 11 | I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye . |
| 12 | Ukraine for example is already stated in its er declaration of Sovereignty that it regards itself as a non nuclear zone , so they 're not going to want nuclear weapons for themselves , and er , I imagine that the former republics will have to quite a a comprehensive military alliance perhaps on the lines of NATO and that nuclear weapons will be vested in that alliance . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most potent advantage for adult education is that it sees itself catering for developing learning needs over the whole adult age range . |
| 14 | In the essay ‘ Theatum philosophicum ’ ( 1970 ) , written shortly after the Archaeology , Foucault attempts to avoid the snares of the problem of the relation of the event to the totality , or the particular to the general , that beset both Sartre and Althusser , by arguing that the event as event is only constituted through its repetition in thought as a ‘ phantasm ’ : ‘ it makes the event indefinite so that it repeats itself as a singular universal ’ . |
| 15 | So perhaps it is no wonder that we are not the only ones who perceive the system as unjust , and that it finds itself with a crisis of legitimacy on its hands . |
| 16 | A bored or lonely horse may become so neurotic , that it chases itself around in circles , and in extreme cases may even bite its own legs and savage its own sides until they are raw and bleeding . |
| 17 | Thru is ‘ deconstructionist ’ in the additional sense that it places itself in multiple positions within the field of literary discourse . |
| 18 | Let us hope that it manifests itself through some outward show . |