Example sentences of "[verb] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hand launching itself into the air |
| 2 | Business Objects SA , a French software house that markets an object-oriented data access tool for end-users which bypasses SQL , will be launching itself onto the UK market next Wednesday . |
| 3 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China . |
| 4 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution ; it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China ( ROC ) . |
| 5 | As time and cost constraints make extensive physical experimentation increasingly difficult to justify , the transport sector has installed itself at the forefront of the model revolution . |
| 6 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 7 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 8 | The Bulgarian Social Democrat Party ( BSDP ) had originally called itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party , but redesignated itself as the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party ( non-Marxist ) , at its first national conference held on March 31 in Sofia , thereby ceding the BSP name to be adopted by the BCP [ see p. 37380 ] . |
| 9 | The team was able to win some very prestigious senior assignments during this time , deliberately dissociating itself from the wholesale movement of dealing and broking teams , an aspect of search of which GKR strongly disapprove . |
| 10 | An announcement by the council , dissociating itself from the comments and stressing its anti-racist policy , failed to quell a storm of protest over Mr McNeill 's remarks . |
| 11 | So as I say I think it 'll , I think it 'll , it 'll run okay and behave itself on the assumption you can get some people to fill it in so er |
| 12 | He thought later — ‘ When I could think , ’ he said — that it was as if the soul knew that it must surrender itself into the Lad 's hands , to do with as he wished . |
| 13 | This dominance exhibits itself in the ability of corporations to choose effectively which topics of policy they will shepherd into the arena of public debate , and which they will keep within the confines of private discussions . |
| 14 | At one level , this exhibits itself in the place that mathematics and science have come to occupy , mainly in virtue of their underpinning of technology in all its forms , including information technology and computerization . |
| 15 | That morning an advertisement appeared in the Belfast News Letter warning that a body which described itself as the Ulster Workers Council would call a general strike if the Assembly approved the Sunningdale agreement . |
| 16 | Oxford Polytechnic , deriving from a further education institution with poor facilities , had a struggle to establish itself with the CNAA . |
| 17 | It was , however , also a period when complete adult suffrage was achieved , and in which a political consensus was built up that enabled the Labour Party to establish itself alongside the older parties , so that an element of working-class power developed without turning into a revolutionary force . |
| 18 | With all of its efforts to establish itself in the Unix marketplace , DEC has sometimes been in danger of convincing its own VMS customers that the traditional VAX lines have not been keeping up with Unix in the price/performance race . |
| 19 | He then experimentally removed an owner , and allowed a previous intruder ( which had lost against the removed owner ) to establish itself in the territory . |
| 20 | An SBU with high capital intensity could well be at an early stage of its product life-cycle , when one would expect it to be building up its investment relative to sales and also experiencing low profitability as it fights to establish itself in the market . |
| 21 | It is certainly not without significance that the Association always maintained a link with the new youth movement by aligning itself with the Boys ' Brigade and playing an active role in the formation of the Scouts . |
| 22 | I note that , yet again , the Liberal party is aligning itself with the Labour party on social and taxation matters . |
| 23 | It was also , in his view , unpardonable on grounds of principle , since by the autumn of 1940 Vichy seemed to be aligning itself with the foreign policy of the Nazi regime and aspects of its political ideology . |
| 24 | But after her refusal , Carol has received a letter from the council saying it has ‘ discharged itself of the responsibility of rehousing her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 25 | And the nuclear industry could n't always buy itself into the media . |
| 26 | Thus it was that at 6 30 the same barely-to-bed morning the column found itself outside the newsagent 's in Aycliffe , joined shortly afterwards by the ebullient Edgar . |
| 27 | As the country found itself on the brink of a constitutional crisis , Mr Havel said the best way to avert such a crisis would be for President Husak to quit and for a strong prime minister to assume his authority temporarily , as the constitution permits . |
| 28 | He [ Chang ] said that the fact Korea found itself on the other side of that line as defined in Acheson 's address , combined with the House action yesterday , appeared to raise the serious question as to whether the United States might now be considered as having abandoned Korea . |
| 29 | It was the latter which still found itself on the drawing board when the rest had hit the cutting room floor . |
| 30 | But when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , local government found itself at the centre of a much wider conflict regarding the role of the state as a whole , and the position of local government began to be ‘ reappraised ’ . |