Example sentences of "[verb] itself the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 2 | Secondly , their eyes are on eternal truth , of which each party deems itself the sole defender . |
| 3 | The prospect of1993 and the abolition of customs controls between EC countries has spurred the Italian State to set itself the awe-inspiring task of cataloguing a further two million items of its national heritage within two years in execution of its duty to ‘ care for Italy 's landscape , history and cultural heritage ’ ( to quote the Constitution ) . |
| 4 | It was on this basis of this rationality , embodied in modern science and technology , that cette vielle Europe had triumphed throughout the world , had made itself the universal point of reference . |
| 5 | The communist-controlled north under Kim 11-sung proclaimed itself the Democratic People 's Republic , the capitalist south under Syngman Rhee became the Republic of Korea . |
| 6 | He argues that a demand which emanated from the earnings of export staples became itself the driving force behind even greater efforts to balance the increasing import of desired English manufactured goods . |
| 7 | The 499-member Congress held its constituent session on March 11-12 , when it declared itself the constitutional representative of the Estonian people and passed resolutions calling for restoration of Estonia 's independent statehood and the withdrawal of Soviet troops stationed in the republic . |
| 8 | The Hexagonale regional grouping ( comprising Austria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Italy , Poland and Yugoslavia — see p. 38508 ) decided in Vienna on Jan. 28 to rename itself the Central European Initiative with immediate effect ; Yugoslavia did not participate in the meeting but Slovenia and Croatia were represented . |
| 9 | At an ARC symposium last week , convened to mark the ARC 's decision to rename itself the Agricultural and Food Research Council , delegates called for action to save the British malting industry which is hit by falling demand for Scotch whisky . |
| 10 | The head of a new clandestine 250-member opposition group inside Malawi , which calls itself the United Democratic Party , said Mr Chihana 's return yesterday was ‘ suicide and an unnecessary waste of human life ’ . |
| 11 | The anti-democratic movement , which calls itself the anti-tribal movement , is considering widening the net in its search for suitable replacement students . |
| 12 | A pressure group , which calls itself the Coordinating Committee on Depo-Provera , has submitted 400 pages of evidence to the appeal panel , which began hearings this week . |
| 13 | Acting president Kadreddin Aslonov , appointed after the Aug. 31 resignation of Kakhar Makhkamov because of the coup [ see p. 38373 ] , issued on Sept. 22 a decree banning the activities of the Communist Party of Tajikistan ( which on Sept. 21 had renamed itself the Socialist Party of Tajikistan ) and nationalizing its property . |
| 14 | The AFO now called itself the Anti-Fascist People 's Freedom League ( AFPFL ) and its general secretary and political spokesman was Thakin Than Tun . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | His own group called itself the Free Conservatives , set up an office to rival that of the official party , and supplied money and professional assistance to rebels at by-elections . |
| 17 | An anonymous caller to a newspaper claimed that a ( previously unknown ) Islamic fundamentalist group calling itself the Islamic Movement had killed Ucok because of her secularist and feminist stand against the current fundamentalist campaign for the veiling of women . |
| 18 | On June 23 a group calling itself the Islamic Liberation Front threatened to carry out terrorist attacks against the Kuwaiti government unless it cancelled the death sentences . |
| 19 | There was brawling at the Republicans ' conference in West Berlin in July 1989 and in mid-October a splinter group calling itself the Democratic Republicans of Germany ( Demokratische Republikaner Deutschlands ) was formed in Hannover . |
| 20 | They had been arrested on Dec. 17 and held at the premises of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance in Abidjan accused of the possession of documents supporting a group calling itself the Democratic Convention of African People , material considered hostile to the Eyadema regime . |
| 21 | The adoption by the BCP congress of a moderate reformist manifesto did not dissuade members of a BCP faction calling itself the Alternative Socialist Organization ( ASO — the most radical of several pro-reform factions which had emerged in the party in January ) from carrying out a threat to split from the BCP and form a new social democratic party . |
| 22 | The celebrant was to be something calling itself the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain ( Marxist-Leninist ) . |
| 23 | Other incidents included explosions on April 2 and 3 , 1989 , which caused damage at the British Cultural Centre in Kizilay ; a group calling itself the Revolutionary Left claimed responsibility . |
| 24 | On May 7th farmers , politicians and ex-generals who oppose majority rule met in Pretoria to launch a new alliance calling itself the Afrikaner Volksfront , or Afrikaner People 's Front . |
| 25 | The group , calling itself the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy ( ULIMO ) , was also reportedly supported by members of the Libyan-trained Movement for Justice in Africa ( MOJA ) , led by Boima Fahnbulleh . |
| 26 | However , the authorities in Serbia on Jan. 13 banned an opposition party calling itself the Serbian National Renewal because of its overtly nationalist programme . |
| 27 | Only then did the navy begin calling itself the Senior Service — reference to the fact that it was around long before the East India Trading Company . |
| 28 | He himself was overthrown and killed in October 1987 by a faction of the armed forces calling itself the Popular Front , which established itself as Burkina 's source of legislative and executive power . |
| 29 | He himself was overthrown and killed in October 1987 by a faction of the armed forces calling itself the Popular Front . |
| 30 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |