Example sentences of "the [noun] itself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In chains he tells the Sanhedrin itself about the one name in heaven by which we must be saved . |
2 | although on one level Balzac 's story is ‘ about ’ castration ( one of the characters is a castrato singer ) , in Barthes 's reading the theme of castration is seen as a pretext for a kind of reflexive anxiety on the part of the text itself concerning the very possibility of representation . |
3 | It 's a wonder any parts are left at all , what with debts of £6.5m and Sir John Hall still waging the boardroom battle that has very nearly claimed the club itself as the ultimate , ironic , victim . |
4 | Who then , was to determine whether or not the water came from faults and fissures in the rock , or from the vein itself in the usual manner ? |
5 | In the half-back window the lower half of the backing is closed in , but you can see into the shop itself through the top half . |
6 | I found a piece of blue-grey silk for the background , to tone in with the recipient 's decor , and selected the wooden frame and the gold tones in the picture itself for the same reason . |
7 | In the town itself over the next few years Class meetings were formed in West Street , Corcrain , Edenderry , Levaghery , Lisniskey and Kernan . |
8 | Then she did an unheard-of thing , she threw the ladle itself onto the white cloth and stalked from the room , leaving Agnes looking towards the door that had banged closed and thinking , Goodness me ! |
9 | My Lords , Government is not prepared to retain the land itself for the future development of what must be regarded as one of the world 's greatest libraries . |
10 | Four elements of interest and influence need to be weighed against each other , namely the effect of the parent as the educator who is helped by the school , the school as the institutional teacher who is helped by the parent , the school as the manager and decider ( with the parent being kept informed ) and the school itself as the only " real " provider of education . |