Example sentences of "itself [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there are the personal perils for breaches of companies legislation which are not only manifold but , supplemented by the Insolvency Act and , where relevant , the Financial Services Act itself amended by the 1989 Companies Act , threaten to catch the unwary at every turn . |
| 2 | Surely , however , the women who do make the transition from the grant-aided sector to the mainstream bring with them a history of political and creative experience which must make itself felt in the long run ? |
| 3 | In September 1955 seismic activity began to make itself felt in the surrounding area , gradually increasing in severity until 22 October , when the eruption commenced . |
| 4 | However , in our application , the aircraft , which has no undercarriage of its own , travels on a trolley which is itself tethered to the rotating pylon head . |
| 5 | That was based on the film starring Al Pacino , itself based on the true story of a New York cop who made allegations of corruption in the city 's police department . |
| 6 | The draft proposed the incorporation into Hong Kong law of the human rights and freedoms provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights , itself based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 [ see p. 9279 ] . |
| 7 | The earth itself buckled under the titanic stress , and across the island continent earthquakes cast down the cities and levelled the mountains . |
| 8 | Even while freeing its market at home , America found itself locked into the pernicious logic of government-to-government deals abroad . |
| 9 | By notice of appeal dated 26 February 1991 Mr. Pegg appealed against that refusal on the grounds that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in rejecting the proposition that it would be Wednesbury unreasonable for the Secretary of State to fix Mr. Pegg 's tariff ( as a person serving a mandatory term of life imprisonment ) by reference to a period of retribution and deterrence which was higher than that recommended by the judiciary ; ( 2 ) in rejecting submissions that the tariff procedure was in breach of procedural propriety in that the court considered itself bound by the wrong decision of Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 ; and ( 3 ) in rejecting submissions that the decision to refuse his petition should be quashed and viewing that the tariff belonged solely to the Secretary of State to determine . |
| 10 | The first movement quotes from my opera Inquest of Love , itself inspired by The Magic Flute . |
| 11 | But this intention is itself undermined by the visual evidence presented to us which has implied Black sexuality and overbreeding to be the cause of the problem . |
| 12 | All these factors were intensified by rural population growth , although it was not in itself caused by the family-based allowance scheme . |
| 13 | The HSE declares itself satisfied with the general health monitoring programmes run by the companies involved in building biotechnology factories but aside from the ICI programme New Scientist was unable to discover any others established especially to periodically review the health of workers involved in biotechnology processes . |
| 14 | The purity movement was itself divided over the new proposals . |