Example sentences of "itself upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | The caveats expressed in The Counterlife apply to all occasions when , in whatever genre or style , autobiography imposes itself upon , overwrites , the world . |
| 2 | His literary prowess was now enforcing itself upon him with the urgency of a destiny , as with all true writers , ‘ born , not made ’ . |
| 3 | It impresses itself upon you subliminally . |
| 4 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 5 | As a clue to that significance we might first recall the way in which the laws regarding menstruation and childbirth and this new circumcision appeared at the same time in the history of the Jewish people , and remember what was earlier said about the nature — culture dichotomy and the need of culture to control or impose itself upon what it deems to be nature . |
| 6 | And yet this film etches itself upon one 's consciousness . |
| 7 | Batty Wife Cave is in a different category , having no pretensions to shyness nor modesty ; indeed , it thrusts itself upon the notice of passersby on the road just below the Station Inn on the north side , where a channel of pebbles emerges from a low entrance half-choked by stones and normally dry . |
| 8 | This theme is one which forcefully impressed itself upon Edwardian social politics , and thereafter . |
| 9 | There were , of course , numerous forms and methods in which this ‘ law ’ expressed itself , but the most characteristic aspect was that of the transfer of resources to the socialist sector from the private commodity sector , and this is the process that — according to Preobrazhensky — imposes itself upon the socialist sector . |
| 10 | The nascent Welsh revival has been sparked by a pack at last able to impose itself upon both the French and the Irish . |
| 11 | The hotel had prided itself upon being ‘ a good employer ’ . |
| 12 | Everyone knows that that book is a critique of ‘ logocentrism ’ ; what is less often recalled is that the terms of the critique with which it opens announce the design of focusing attention on logocentrism 's ethnocentrism ’ which , Derrida suggests , is ‘ nothing but the most original and powerful ethnocentrism , in the process of imposing itself upon the world ’ . |
| 13 | As she grew older , she looked upon herself , tragically , defiantly , with all the hopelessness of fourteen years , as a plant trying to root itself upon the solid rock , without water , without earth , without shade : and then , when a little older yet , when conscious of some growth , she had to concede that she must have fallen happily upon some small dry sandy fissure , where a few grains of sand , a few drops of moisture , had been enough to support her trembling and tenacious life . |
| 14 | Then there were Heather and Katie , inseparable friends , who bolstered each other by their mutual devotion ; never had they known a Moment 's shame of friendlessness , never had they had to look for a partner in dancing or in gym , never had they walked alone from classroom to classroom , and their confidence overflowed and imposed itself upon all beholders . |
| 15 | The eagle was so evidently , so ferociously beautiful ; one would have thought that it could have impressed itself upon the most unwilling beholder . |
| 16 | The Committee begins by expressing surprise that the position of English within the educational system has " scarcely any history " However , such a revelation could only be surprising in the light of the Committee " s own characterization of " English " as a discipline of education , dependent in itself upon quite recent social developments ( see pp. 44–5 ) . |
| 17 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 18 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 19 | The first that Winchester knew of the decision in regard to which they had had no opportunity to make any prior representations , was when the copy announced itself upon their fax machine on 31 October . |
| 20 | Does historical debate centre itself upon the meaning of certain terms ? |
| 21 | The silence was unbreakable , it imposed itself upon us ; it was obscene . |
| 22 | As she tried to recall Johnny 's face , the open , unclouded expression and the sweetness of his smile , that other face , the face of her dreams , superimposed itself upon the image in her mind , and she shivered . |
| 23 | It finds that it has lost itself upon |
| 24 | ‘ The manufacture which forces itself upon a stranger 's eye is that of knit-stockings , on which the women of the lower class are visibly employed . ’ |
| 25 | I had hardly stepped into the tiny living room when a hairy form hurled itself upon me . |
| 26 | As I was about to move forward , a whole cloud of doubt precipitated itself upon me . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most obvious illustration of the extent to which trade was forcing itself upon the often unwilling attention of traditional diplomacy was the creation of a new type of diplomat most clearly typified by the commercial attaché . |