Example sentences of "[verb] for itself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruling groups have found that their interests are best safeguarded if they are supported by a work force which can not think for itself in the coherent way writing affords . |
| 2 | Dynamics of survival within the NMGC must be related to the role which the organisation has defined and redefined for itself in the light of a changing understanding of marital problems over time and in relation to the work of other agencies . |
| 3 | Nor was there any flamboyant gestures from the pianist , just a stillness and controlled technique that let the music speak for itself throughout the evening . |
| 4 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 5 | The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 6 | Once a chick bred in captivity can fly — at the age of eight weeks or so — it can be taken from its parents and released to hunt for itself for a month . |
| 7 | such a programme would pay for itself within five years , and save fuel worth something like £2800 million a year . |
| 8 | SAAB had estimated the costs and benefits of the line-out system and had calculated that the system would pay for itself within four years , with more than half of the savings coming from the increased production flexibility of the system and another 25 per cent coming from reduced labour turnover and absenteeism . |
| 9 | It should quickly pay for itself by saving computational time , increasing accuracy and reducing parts costs by minimising expenditure on E48 or E96 parts where cheaper E24 values will do . |
| 10 | So parents actually welcomed the possibility of a large family : an extra pair of hands could soon pay for itself by working in the fields as well as ensuring security for the parents ' old age . |
| 11 | The best ( rated 5 ) will pay for itself in less than a year , while the least cost-effective ( rate 0 ) is worth doing only if you are planning to carry out other major renovation work at the same time . |
| 12 | On the contrary , if the gene can pay for itself in terms of reproductive success , that is all that matters . |
| 13 | Their success speaks for itself with over 190 new members on Covenant . |
| 14 | The United Kingdom 's right to decide for itself on the merits of a single currency is not an important factor in investment decisions . |
| 15 | A rule of thumb is that investment in energy efficiency is expected to pay for itself in two years . |
| 16 | Last year , a passive solar collector on a house would have been expected to pay for itself in 12 to 15 years . |
| 17 | Investment in an agency , branch or subsidiary will be expected to pay for itself by generating extra business . |
| 18 | Invaluable time-saver for analogue design , Rescalc release 2.0 is much improved and pays for itself within hours , says Ben Duncan |
| 19 | According to Lovins , ‘ the equipment more than pays for itself by costing less to maintain ’ . |
| 20 | A 6m zone stops 90% of walked in dirt , reducing maintenance costs of the floor covering beyond the Coral by 50% and the Coral Clean-off-Zone pays for itself in 6 months . |
| 21 | ‘ We should ask national income estimators conceptual questions such as : which of the activities a farm family does for itself without payment , such as haircutting for example , have you included in the national income ? ’ , says a leading development economist ( Seers 1979 : 15 ) . |
| 22 | One slight problem that Cognos has created for itself with Unix in Europe is its failure to recognise those lucrative government markets where the national champion is often the favourite — to date Cognos has declined to serve the ICL Plc , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and Siemens AG environments . |
| 23 | At the St Pierre Park it is estimated that the oven system will have paid for itself inside 18 months . |
| 24 | In terms of cost effectiveness , a single Ventura/VT600 installation applied to Classical Music should have paid for itself in eight months — costed against the savings in typesetting . |
| 25 | But it has more than paid for itself in improved factory efficiency , said Bob Pruitt , operations manager of Thatcher Tubes , Florence — part of Courtaulds Packaging . |
| 26 | He sees the deviant group as creating its own circumstances to the extent that it makes meaningful the societal reactions to it , or better generates meaning for itself in a world whose societal reactions deny them the full status of persons . |
| 27 | The final text leaves this clash alone , free to speak for itself in a world where the reader believes he understands Stepan better than the narrator does . |
| 28 | That recognised , its achievement is answer enough to the question why , given the attributes claimed for it , the place it has so far established for itself in the economy is still no more than marginal . |
| 29 | In the 1960s the Northern Ireland Labour Party ( NILP ) was on the verge of becoming a significant political force , despite the fact that it had been left to fend for itself in very difficult circumstances . |
| 30 | However , despite its diminutive size , it is well able to fend for itself in a mixed community tank , protecting its territory against all comers , even if they happen to be twice its size . |