Example sentences of "[prep] itself in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The management at Perry Poultry might not have amassed this sort of paper wealth yet but , only founded in 1989 , the company is already making a name for itself in the food business . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Having dug its way out of the compost heap , it must immediately start to fend for itself in the hostile world of the mallee scrub . |
| 5 | The firm badly needs this market share to buy time , so it can fully adapt to the new Windows world and carve out a place for itself in the growing groupware market . |
| 6 | It seemed to be Greece 's only chance of breaking out of isolation , its only hope of finding a role for itself in the world . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is evident from this spate of new product launches that LIFFE sees an important European role for itself in the future . |
| 10 | That rite is turned against itself in the way that the Lord 's Prayer of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ is involved in an anti-Lord 's Prayer . |
| 11 | this is a very good example of er putting interesting detail in the foreground in the way that tall bit of wood there is really making quite a a , an interesting subject in itself in the foreground . |
| 12 | In the light of these considerations it is perhaps not surprising that new social divisions and conflicts have arisen in the English village in recent years , nor that the local population has preferred to turn in upon itself in the face of these changes . |
| 13 | It would seem that imagination rightly directed enables the extension of meaning which is involved in the Incarnation ; but as the Incarnation points beyond itself in the risen and ascended Christ , so imaginative knowledge of God is transcended by a more purely spiritual experience . |
| 14 | ‘ Stealin' Horses ’ pops out of nowhere and hangs in the air , a skeletal ballad from Griffin with the accompaniment of a ghostly piano which can be heard weeping softy to itself in the basement . |
| 15 | And the thing growled and howled to itself in the centre of its blind struggle . |
| 16 | There was no sound except for a pigeon burbling to itself in the road , pecking at horse-dung . |
| 17 | A threadbare rug covered the stone of the floor , and a human skull grinned to itself in the corner . |
| 18 | If you are a newcomer to the product , Symphony now provides a very good introduction to itself in the form of its online tutorial . |
| 19 | As Jeremy Seabrook so vividly illustrates in his many books , working-class areas have instead become the victims of a process of mindless violence , the community turning in on itself in the search for thrills , kicks , money . |
| 20 | Japanese company Dit Co Ltd was showing some preliminary versions of two products developed by itself in the network field — software yet unnamed that enables a Unix machine to be used as a Macintosh back-up device over a TCP-IP network , and an FTP protocol engine which is ready for use in Macintosh applications . |
| 21 | Once upon a time there was a white cloud which drifted all by itself in the clear blue sky . |
| 22 | This is , in fact , not used very much by itself in the variety of English being described here , where questions are usually grammatically marked . |