Example sentences of "feels itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 2 | What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is an inner being , a soul , an inner mind , and inner life , an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in its potentialities , more plastic , more powerful , more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind , life or body ; especially , it is capable of a direct communication with the universal forces , movements , objects of the cosmos , a direct feeling and opening to them , a direct action of them and even a widening of itself beyond the limit of the personal mind , the personal life , the body , so that it feels itself more and more a universal being no longer limited by the existing walls of out too narrow mental , vital , physical existence . |
| 3 | No wonder that the North of England feels itself still left in the dark . |
| 4 | Essentially this is the behaviour of a cat that feels itself severely threatened and strikes out to protect itself . |
| 5 | The point is that black people are not only at a disadvantage in the job market on account of their colour , they also perceive sharply that this is so and , despite Johnson 's tongue-in-cheek addendum , the consciousness of belonging to a group which feels itself to be at a disadvantage is clear enough . |
| 6 | The incorporation of a long passage from a Board of Education memo on evening schools indicates that the Committee feels itself to be in consonance with the Board " s thinking , not only on the inadequacies of vocational education , but also on the value of English as a force for cultural nationalization . |
| 7 | Small wonder that industry feels itself to suffer unfairly in the competition for talent . |
| 8 | Recognizing the distinct nature of Quebec 's French-speaking culture , it asserted that " the first priority is to ensure that Quebec feels itself a full and willing partner in the constitutional family once again " . |