Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] itself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , interestingly , Labour was trying to claim for itself the new Prospective owner-occupiers with a promise of low interest mortgages for low income earners . |
| 2 | Each group needs to see for itself the importance of indirect and hard-to-define influences . |
| 3 | As the child 's mental processes become more complex , it becomes increasingly able to absorb and construct for itself the complexities of the external world . |
| 4 | In advance of the fighting he warned both sides not to take military action , even though Egypt 's prior closing of the Straits of Tiran was widely regarded as itself an act of aggression . |
| 5 | Due to lack of governmental or any other official support this unique and valuable organisation has had to suspend its training activities temporarily , whilst trying to secure for itself a sound and permanent financial basis for the future . |
| 6 | in the Court of Appeal , ‘ in view of the historic struggle of the legislature to secure for itself the sole power to levy money upon the subject , its complete success in that struggle , the elaborate means adopted by the representative House to control the amount , the conditions and the purpose of the levy , the circumstances would be remarkable indeed which would induce the court to believe that the legislature had sacrificed all the well-known checks and precautions , and , not in express words , but merely by implication , had entrusted a Minister of the Crown with undefined and unlimited powers of imposing charges upon the subject for purposes connected with his department . ’ |
| 7 | It follows from the foregoing observations that a knowledge of right and wrong has of itself no power to control behaviour . |
| 8 | More significantly , as is already clear from our discussion so far , functional psychosis also contains within itself a potential for the very opposite of deficit , the occasional capacity for superlative functioning and high achievement ; this is the paradox of which we wrote in the previous chapter . |
| 9 | The family , however , already contains within itself the seeds of latent exploitation in the ability of the male head to control the labour of women and children [ p. 52 ] . |
| 10 | There is little sentiment in the population at large for attacks upon the position of the monarchy , and the " fact " that we have a constitutional monarchy contains within itself the idea that the Crown has no personal political power but exercises prerogatives solely on the advice of ministers responsible to Parliament . |
| 11 | Right from its inception NEP carried within itself the germs of its own fatal illness , whether one looks at its fiscal organization or the economic persona ( like these Nepmen ) which it soon evoked , or in many cases re-awakened . |
| 12 | More specifically , the model of responsible party government carried within itself the view that the electorate would not just be informed about politics but would vote for the party which has a programme of policies in accord with their own view as to how things should be . |
| 13 | In paragraphs two onwards , I give the names of the local governments staff commission , erm , what their statutory it is , and can I just point out at the bottom of the page , paragraph five , please remember that the staff commission is advisory and it has in itself no mandatory powers . |
| 14 | Each corporation would tend to attract to itself a ‘ clientele ’ consisting of those preferring its particular payout ratio , but one clientele would be as good as another in terms of the valuation it would imply for firms . |
| 15 | For this reason , of the patient , turning off the machine has attracted to itself an enormous significance , and has already spawned its own folklore . |
| 16 | From the eighth century onwards , the Church arrogated to itself the power to create kings . |
| 17 | English Language , Literature , and History in the colleges was both similar to and different from these other modern disciplines ; similar in that , like them , it sought to create for itself a solid and autonomous identity ; different ( especially from the early decades of this century ) in that its predominantly classically-trained and often clerical academic proponents increasingly claimed for it a status well beyond that of any mere " discipline " or " knowledge subject " . |
| 18 | The Soviet leadership appeared concerned that it should ensure for itself a role in any future Middle East peace settlement . |
| 19 | Once humanity can formulate for itself a truly superstition-free religion , such activities would die a natural death , as for example , has the burning of ‘ witches ’ , although even this hideous ritual would be not entirely free from revival if a godless , religious vacuum were allowed to form . |
| 20 | The first two autobiographies , that is to say , are the kind of book to which a tradition of literary interpretation has been inimical , imagining for itself a literature of impersonality , in which autobiography is subsumed , invisible . |
| 21 | Hendon has secured for itself a once ‘ extinct ’ bomber , filling a decided ‘ hole ’ in the RAF Museum 's coverage . |
| 22 | Again , originally groups of ‘ adventurers ’ were recognized in trade with various lands — one trading with Prussia secured royal recognition in 1391 , another with the Netherlands in 1407 and a third with the Scandinavian lands in 1408 , but eventually the Netherlands group secured for itself the specific name of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company ( 64 , pp. 143–50 ) . |
| 23 | What the theist claims is that by observing the world as it is , not by attempting to look outside it , one can see that it bears within itself a fundamental self-insufficiency . |
| 24 | It 's built round itself an aura of godlike objectivity . |
| 25 | Hence , the child may grow up trying to be the better parent — replacing in itself the " bad " parental elements and exercising its goodness in this respect by Occupying the " good " parental position for others . |
| 26 | I have already pointed out that law has imposed on itself a self-denying ordinance in its relation to the personal . |
| 27 | Only the United States had no state airline , and believed that airways should be open to free market capitalism : ‘ In general , the Chicago conference can be described … as an attempt by the United States to capitalise on its overwhelmingly strong bargaining position in international aviation by securing for itself a near monopoly of long-haul air transport . ' |
| 28 | This development particularly concerned Soviet leaders , although Egypt reserved for itself the right to exercise sovereign control over these facilities . |
| 29 | In part the debate has been presented as an opposition between a broadly liberal programme — multiculturalism — and an antiracism which claimed for itself the mantle of left radicalism ( Dodgson and Stewart , 1981 ; Mullard , 1984 ; Troyna , 1987a ; Gill and Singh , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | Wimsatt 's use of the term ‘ iconic ’ ( and the title of The Verbal Icon ) derives from Morris 's distinction ( 1971 : 37 ) between the ‘ iconic ’ and the ‘ symbolic ’ sign ; the former is that which ‘ characterizes … by exhibiting in itself the properties of an object ’ , the latter that which does not do so , but has instead a purely conventional relationship with the object that it designates . |