Example sentences of "[noun] itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't seem likely : the first floor was in the roof itself with sloping outside walls and few places to hang pictures . |
| 2 | I 'd say — and interrogate me in the cell itself with shouted , rapid-fire questions , punctuated by slaps in the face and , just once , hair-pulling . |
| 3 | Areas of application — from the computing industry itself to traditional industries which have been liberated from routine to the new technology — continue to proliferate . |
| 4 | When considering the weight or strength of the reasons for an action , the reasons for the rule can not be added to the rule itself as additional reasons . |
| 5 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 6 | Turning now to the development work itself in general , the development work is going well . |
| 7 | The form that literary studies had taken during the second half of the nineteenth century , positivism , was , as we saw in the Introduction , largely based on the genetic approach ; critics , or rather scholars , concentrated their energies on uncovering the sources and genesis of particular works , and the role of biography , history and history of ideas in these genetic studies obviously reduced the importance of literature itself in literary scholarship . |
| 8 | It is conduct which in these circumstances falls to be dealt with in the trial itself by judicial control upon admissibility of evidence , the judicial power to direct a verdict of not guilty , usually at the close of the prosecution 's case , or by the jury taking account of it in evaluating the evidence before them . |
| 9 | But support for the Americans came from a wider section of the English people than the intellectuals : the presence of discharged and wounded soldiers created a loathing of war itself on humanitarian grounds . |
| 10 | Evelyn was educated at Emmanuel College , Cambridge , and the Middle Temple , and succeeded to his father 's business in 1627 , by which time the monopoly was under attack and the business itself in financial difficulty . |
| 11 | This relational emphasis is found in the repetition of the word eye itself in abstract nouns implying perception ( aspect , sign , glitter , ripple , glance , etc ) , and in verbs like see , mark , and look . |
| 12 | government will presumably always need bodies from which it can distance itself in sensitive areas ; |
| 13 | The authorities closed the Square itself during early June , citing a number of apparently spurious events , including a mass driving lesson for the city 's taxi-drivers on June 4 . |
| 14 | That level of contact must certainly be maintained in future under the Commission , and I would expect the national coaches to be co-opted on to the Commission itself as non-voting members . ’ |
| 15 | In the next chapter the role of the state itself in industrial relations is considered more systematically within the international context . |
| 16 | It was felt that to date such support had not been forthcoming in this region due to the prevailing indigenous political bias for private enterprise and to the lack of meaningful local government itself under direct rule . |
| 17 | Below the streets were alive with people , all of them bathed in the neon glow that seemed to fill the very air itself with multi-coloured energy . |
| 18 | The big question was , how much support was he likely to have , in the East March generally and in Berwick itself in particular ? |
| 19 | But there was something in her gaze , some power of kindness and peace , that would have stilled the very sky itself of stormy winds and rain . |
| 20 | How , in fact , does the legal profession project itself for public consideration ? |
| 21 | It is here that the visual cat and mouse game in nature becomes so fascinating lending itself to multifold design possibilities . |
| 22 | It also put the Cabinet system itself under severe stress . |
| 23 | A highly-developed sense of the ridiculous is inimical to the striking of certain musical attitudes ; and , while I 'm sure mason regards the craft of composition itself with profound seriousness , there are clearly many compositional modes and self images which he 's quite unable to invest with the spurious dignity they often demand . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the Soviets have decided to forsake San Diego itself for nearby Mission Bay where the Nippon Challenge and a joint de Savary/Iain Murray operation are likely to be set up . |