Example sentences of "it [verb] itself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For example , in Lonrho/House of Fraser ( 1979 ) , it concerned itself with the managerial capacity of a particular individual .
2 It manifested itself in the small hours at such an advanced stage that no cure save amputation of the head could bring relief .
3 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 .
4 BP has considerable experience of rationalisation ; along with much of the rest of UK manufacturing industry it reshaped itself during the early and mid-1980s .
5 January 1945 , by which time the Russians had established , and officially recognised the Union of Polish Patriots , ( later called the Lubin Committee ) and it proclaimed itself as the provisional government of Poland , a procedure which did not please the British , Americans , or the London Poles .
6 Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant .
7 It disgraced itself on the Cambrian Coast Express some weeks ago and was hauled back ignominiously to the works where a tremendous flap occurred as to who paid for the necessary .
8 He has always recognized the sweetness of an apple as a reason for choosing it , although a sinful one ; with the lapse of the standard which condemns it , it asserts itself as the only relevant consideration .
9 In general it allied itself with the conservative sector , knowing it could then rely on the wealth and status of this group and , in return , offering a value system that supported their regimes .
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