Example sentences of "has [vb pp] itself [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long time it has been content with this unchanging splendour but more recently it has treated itself to a quartier in the most modern style , complete with a magnificent new concert hall , the Corum ( which unfortunately appears to have been built on ground that it is less than stable ) . |
| 2 | It has surrounded itself with a region from which nothing — absolutely nothing — can escape . |
| 3 | THE Government has drilled itself into a well on oil jobs as it ‘ scrambles out of a hole on pit closures ’ , Alex Salmond , the Scottish National Party leader , said yesterday . |
| 4 | There are cases , however , where the military has seen itself as a force for modernization , particularly in societies perceived to be ruled by traditional elites , and where the military may become imbued with the norms of Western processes of industrialization to the extent that it seeks to impose them on society . |
| 5 | A hospital has turned itself into a charity to prevent the Health Authority closing it down . |
| 6 | The former communist daily , Berliner Zeitung , has transformed itself into a newsy , left-of-centre paper with a reputation for investigative reporting . |
| 7 | The European Patent Office has got itself into a mess over these issues because it has proceeded to patent life forms without first examining properly whether the EPC , when interpreted as it was originally intended , actually allows the patents the patent office has granted . |
| 8 | He no longer fears ridicule or criticism ; instead , his fear is that people will not act swiftly enough , that human nature has locked itself into a process of acquisitiveness and materialism , and that three hundred years of our industrial society have alienated people from the aesthetic values mankind once possessed . |
| 9 | One of the aims of this thesis was to use graph search terminology to clarify certain speech processing problems and the method has proved itself in a number of ways . |
| 10 | In these fields Edinburgh has established itself as a centre of excellence with an international reputation . |
| 11 | This work has established itself as a bibliography of a single format , in a rapidly growing field . |
| 12 | ‘ Lowden Guitars has established itself as a prestige company producing a specialised product for a specialised market . |
| 13 | A FURNITURE recycling scheme celebrating its first anniversary has established itself as a lifeline for a town 's needy families . |
| 14 | Since its appearance in 1956 the US-based EDN has established itself as a leader in controlled circulation electronics magazines . |
| 15 | Glasgow has marketed itself as a city which rejoices in diversity , but will it be singing about the first homosexual festival ? |