Example sentences of "[prep] itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , one generation may be able to redistribute towards itself from succeeding generations only by coercion ( government policy ) . |
| 2 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 3 | Mulvey combined this Freudian explanation of pleasure in looking with the theory of the mirror stage in the work of Jacques Lacan , in which the child 's first recognition of itself in the mirror is called a misrecognition , because what the child sees in the mirror is an idealised whole and rounded image at odds with the child 's diffuse bodily experience of itself at that stage in development — it can not yet control its movements , let alone its environment . |
| 4 | An interesting property is the ability of the hologram to project well out in front of itself into free space . |
| 5 | When this is not enjoyed it is because our own essential nature is frustrated in its enjoyment of itself through physical or mental disease or by physical or social circumstances . |
| 6 | When , in any group of persons , the ego is subjected to such invidious versions of itself through social beliefs , ideology and tradition , the effect is bound to be pernicious . |
| 7 | Why has the LDDC changed the presentation of itself from that of a ‘ yuppie ’ development agency to an inner city concern ‘ working for the community ’ ? |
| 8 | The Fontana Cocktail Bar is also making a name for itself as one of the smartest new places in town . |
| 9 | The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 10 | Last year Dillons got John Mortimer on a holiday weekend , which was not good timing , but it has since made a niche for itself with local books . |
| 11 | ‘ Darlington has made a name for itself with imaginative use of housing capital . |
| 12 | His rejection of the right of a religion to claim superiority for itself over other religions underlines his claim that no particular religion can embody what he calls the one , true and perfect Religion . |
| 13 | A rule of thumb is that investment in energy efficiency is expected to pay for itself in two years . |
| 14 | Such a qualified endorsement of the authority of the law falls short of acknowledging the authority the law claims for itself in two respects . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Last year , a passive solar collector on a house would have been expected to pay for itself in 12 to 15 years . |
| 17 | Today , with funding for British Universities squeezed ever tighter by the recession and thirteen years of an unsympathetic Conservative government , the Warburg is being forced to fend for itself in large measure . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | At the St Pierre Park it is estimated that the oven system will have paid for itself inside 18 months . |
| 22 | In many ways , these additional protocols reinforced the impression that for France the EDC was designed as a guarantee for itself against possible German aggression as much as it was to be an anti-Soviet organisation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | such a programme would pay for itself within five years , and save fuel worth something like £2800 million a year . |
| 25 | It started in the middle of something , something hollow and highly polished that fed into itself in ever-increasing rounds . |
| 26 | Fit the swivel plus connector , and lock the sleeving onto itself with two separated overhand knots . |
| 27 | 9.15 ( a ) An L-section which when cascaded with itself with reversed input and output connections as depicted in ( h ) forms the symmetric T-section of figure 9.1(b) . |
| 28 | The only way round this conclusion is to suppose that instead of the chain of justification stretching away to infinity , it turns round on its tail and joins up with itself at some point , forming a circle . |
| 29 | The astonishing bed has a fan-like bed-head and is like a building in itself with built-in spotlights , hi-fi , and telephone . |
| 30 | Firstly , the text is plural in itself with different sub-texts , and secondly , the reader brings to the text a plurality of texts . |