Example sentences of "[prep] itself [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ ? |
| 4 | The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But getting a job after years spent bringing up a family is n't necessarily an end in itself For many women , it 's all part of changing their lives and pointing them in the direction they want to go in-of being in charge of their own destiny . |
| 8 | It is quite obviously a twentieth century excrescence , however good it may be in itself as such . |
| 9 | The same applies to fulfilling the goal , worthwhile in itself to many , of merely having men in space . |
| 10 | Because the water in itself er , I 'm sure that when you 're there it 's erm it 's a beautiful place to be , but the water in itself in this photograph has not got the best of light on it . |
| 11 | However , it is so much woven into the fabric of multimedia , we will not focus on interactivity in itself in this study but allow it to feature implicitly throughout our assessment of multimedia design , technology and application . |
| 12 | However , with Sun and other compatible players moving into the Sparc SMP market , which Solbourne has had more or less to itself for some time , the company is being forced to look at other ways of differentiating its products . |
| 13 | The basic premiss , usually , is that whatever exists in a fundamental sense does not depend upon anything external to itself for own existence and is in every way self-sufficient , which is regarded as analytically true . |
| 14 | Another effect of intrinsic curvature is revealed when a vector is transported round a closed path in such a way that it is moved parallel to itself at each step of the journey . |
| 15 | His only strategy is to take small steps and to carry the local vector parallel to itself over each step . |
| 16 | Having grasped the use of silence you now have to quieten your own brain , stop it muttering away to itself about all the things you need to do and may forget , stop it reacting and getting on its high horse when all it needs to do is to absorb information and store it for future reference . |
| 17 | Are soaps in a sense the subconscious of patriarchy — where patriarchy is reflecting on itself via these various problematic issues which are unresolvable within the terms that patriarchy sets ? |
| 18 | It is being said with some conviction that Labour inflicted a serious blow on itself with that Sheffield monster rally . |
| 19 | Of course arpeggios and passage-work generally can freely pass through this part of the compass : it is only when a passage turns and returns on itself within these narrow limits that it becomes both really awkward for the player and uninteresting in sound . |
| 20 | In 1918 the Western Allies had neither accepted nor totally crushed German economic competition : instead they had pushed it back in on itself like some kind of demonic and lethal jack-in-the-box . |
| 21 | By making the beam double back on itself in this way , Philips achieves an effective throw of twice the length of the tube . |
| 22 | It carries on by itself after that and is good on hills . ’ |