Example sentences of "[prep] itself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apex ( tip ) of the shoot continues growth by mobilising food and water towards itself from the older tissues behind . |
| 2 | Primarily it thinks of itself as a software concern . |
| 3 | Primarily it thinks of itself as a software concern . |
| 4 | Then , as now , the Conservative Party in the 1950s liked to think of itself as a lonely beacon of responsibility in a moral wilderness of couldn't-care-less ‘ permissiveness ’ and selfish ‘ I 'm all right Jack ’ attitudes . |
| 5 | In keeping with the Legion 's view of itself as a family , Christmas was an important event . |
| 6 | Identification is a process which occurs when the ego , in part abandoning its awareness of itself as a separate entity , equates itself , or some aspect of itself , with some external thing . |
| 7 | It was concerned with the status of itself as an organization and of the degrees it awarded : the question of status was , in Christopherson 's words , ‘ there , but not written in minutes ! ’ |
| 8 | Its view of itself as an instrument — and interpreter — of public policy ( e.g. RENFE 1981m : 31 ) was reminiscent of BR 's outlook until the 1960s . |
| 9 | It managed to sustain a comparison of itself as the resolute party to the OUP 's vacillation . |
| 10 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 11 | ‘ Marxism ’ , on the other hand , Sartre claims , ‘ is History itself becoming conscious of itself ’ ( I , 40 ) : as for Lukács , it is by becoming conscious of itself as the subject of history that the working class will understand history 's meaning — and so recognize itself as the meaning of history . |
| 12 | In case we become aware of its tricks , the Ego tries to throw us off the scent , by projecting aspects of itself onto the outside world . |
| 13 | As the model presents different sides of itself to the wind , it is necessary to hold on various trim offsets to remain stationary ( Fig. 5.1 ) relative to the pilot . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the mere fact that money is paid under protest will not give rise of itself to the inference of such an agreement ; though it may form part of the evidence from which it may be inferred that the payee did not intend to close the transaction : see Maskell v. Horner [ 1915 ] 3 K.B . |
| 15 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |
| 16 | What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is an inner being , a soul , an inner mind , and inner life , an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in its potentialities , more plastic , more powerful , more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind , life or body ; especially , it is capable of a direct communication with the universal forces , movements , objects of the cosmos , a direct feeling and opening to them , a direct action of them and even a widening of itself beyond the limit of the personal mind , the personal life , the body , so that it feels itself more and more a universal being no longer limited by the existing walls of out too narrow mental , vital , physical existence . |
| 17 | And from all these things the soft light proceeded , like the glimmering of pearls in the depth of water , like the phosphorescent light that moves of itself on the night surface of southern seas , or shines round the heaving shoals , milky-white over their silver darts , in our own dark Channel . |
| 18 | The snow has penetrated everywhere , hiding gloves and socks , filling boots , even packing five centimetres of itself into the stove . |
| 19 | It may be that , over time , education can take a long term view of itself through the medium of the successful business . |
| 20 | A cat may approach its human owner and purposely make a nuisance of itself in a way that it has learnt will cause anger . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ The Government is badly mistaken if it thinks it can take the heat off itself with an inquiry meeting in private , ’ he said . |
| 23 | 10-year old Danish company SuperUsers , which has its headquarters in a 16th century castle overlooking the sea North of Copenhagen , is carving out a niche for itself as a Unix ‘ knowledge house ’ for Scandinavian and European countries . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The United Kingdom 's right to decide for itself on the merits of a single currency is not an important factor in investment decisions . |
| 26 | Kinnock declared that " the Conservative supporting press has enabled the Tory party to win yet again when the Conservative party could not have secured victory for itself on the basis of its record , its programme or its character " . |
| 27 | Norway 's prospects of joining the EC might be harmed by its decision , if the EC were successful in demanding a seat for itself on the IWC . |
| 28 | SoftImage Inc , Montreal raised $14.4m before expenses for itself with a US offering of 1.22m shares , 850,000 of them new : the developer of professional three-dimensional software for the video and film production world will use use the net proceeds for working capital ; the managing underwriters were Hambrecht & Quist Inc and Volpe , Welty & Co Inc . |
| 29 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |