Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] itself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In the first year it had been careful to disassociate itself from the truck-driver 's pin-up image by boasting of the high social and business standing of its readers … ‘ seven corporation presidents , fourteen vice-presidents , psychiatrists , a mortician and three embalmers ’ were listed among the first subscribers . |
2 | The unfairness of such a result is compounded by the fact that , as a litigant , [ the defendant ] would be able to avail itself of the … procedures against plaintiffs . |
3 | The Court of Appeal readily allowed new evidence to be admitted and held that since the risk to jobs did not appear to be a major factor in the dispute , it seemed unlikely that the union would be able to bring itself within the definition of a trade dispute and so the injunction should be granted . |
4 | The unfair element is that the AFBD has been obliged to extricate itself from a CFTC hole largely dug by the Securities and Investments Board and imperfectly filled in by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
5 | The subject is able to constitute itself as an ‘ I ’ , an abstract , self-knowing subject , in an interaction that recognizes an ‘ other ’ that is a similarly formed subject . |
6 | Given the diversity of membership within both organisations , neither was likely to metamorphose itself into a different and more integrated organisation . |
7 | This seems to be true in spite of the fact that Spinoza was very much of a generation which was concerned to dissociate itself from the Greek inheritance , and indeed he represents something of a fresh injection of Jewish moral feeling into the main Christian current of Western thought . |
8 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
9 | It is this larger system , considered as a whole , which is functionally integrated and which was able to reproduce itself within a framework of legitimacy despite the absence on military service of many of the potential genitors of the children . |