Example sentences of "have [verb] itself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That matter is high on their agenda , and the hon. Gentleman may recall that the Labour party has distinguished itself over the past 40 years by being wrong about practically every foreign policy and defence issue that has come before it . |
| 2 | On the continuum of penal philosophy which stretches from the punitive to the reformative , the Nicaraguan penal system has placed itself on the far edge of reform . |
| 3 | There are many teachers who feel that things are that bad , and for whom , at some tacit level of decision-making , becoming ‘ like that ’ has presented itself as the only sensible , or the only possible modus operandi that is left . |
| 4 | The extent to which the company has transformed itself over the past dozen years should not be underestimated . |
| 5 | The rest of the session , including Summerchild 's confession , or his heroic refusal to confess , has broadcast itself about the little attic room , bounced off the walls , been absorbed in the carpet , faded to silence and passed out of history . |
| 6 | WORLD cricket has distilled itself into the English game : the World Cup is over , South Africa have played their first Test match against the West Indies and now the far flung stars of these international matches have flown in to fill the last few places in the carousel of English county cricket . |
| 7 | Feminist sociology , on the other hand , in its critique of the male-centred character of all previous criminology , has involved itself with the traditional criminological concerns . |
| 8 | In their first underground leaflet , the Women 's Higher Council stated the following : ’ To our great masses of women , to the steadfast mothers , sisters , to our women heroines behind the iron bars of the zionist jails and in the revolutionary camps — to women workers , peasants , students — You had a central , important and distinguished role in the great Intifada — had part in its continuity , escalation and in sparking its flame ; this role has expressed itself in the wide participation of women in all fields of daily confrontation and resistance since the Uprisings first day . |
| 9 | The back to nursing movement has established itself over the past five years , partly in response to a national shortage of qualified staff , and partly as a result of the UKCC 's stated commitment to introduce mandatory updating programmes for nurses and health visitors returning to practice after a specified minimum break in service . |
| 10 | Although the Challenge is only a year old it has established itself as the biggest single charity fund raising event in the region . |
| 11 | GROUPE BULL , the French computer company , has launched itself into the personal computer market with the $635m acquisition of Zenith Computer Group of the US , writes Mary Fagan . |
| 12 | Precisely because the Church mistakes herself for the present form of the Kingdom , God 's rule has often had to manifest itself in the secular world outside , and frequently against , the Church ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:78 ) . |
| 13 | It was extraordinary that lips so tight could produce any sound , that Lorrimer 's voice , high and distorted , could have forced itself through the vocal cords without splitting them . |
| 14 | A figure of that sort , roughly twice the value of East Germany 's 1986 exports and imports combined , is bound to cause incredulity , but even if the figure were halved , it would still be a remarkable indication of what has happened to a country which in the first half of the 1980s claimed to have established itself among the top ten industrial nations . |
| 15 | The tempo of a summer 's day had adjusted itself to the measured progress of the tournament through the placid dunes and sandhills . |
| 16 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 17 | But even the French navy had to divide itself between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coasts and the Russians had to maintain a small separate fleet in the Black Sea . |
| 18 | It was yielding some ore but had found itself amongst the old bottoms out of which " the eyes had been picked " . |
| 19 | Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission . |
| 20 | The popular explanation of his condition was that his mother , in late pregnancy , had been knocked over by a runaway circus elephant , and the shock had imprinted itself on the unborn child . |
| 21 | Despite its shattering defeat in 1931 the Labour Party had established itself as the dominant political force opposed to the Conservative Party , as the unchallenged controller of local government on the major coalfields and as the Party to which the great majority of trade-union officials gave their loyalty . |
| 22 | Visigothic architecture had established itself before the Moslem invasion and was flourishing from c. 450–720 . |
| 23 | So it 's re-inserted itself into the real world , you could say . |