Example sentences of "[noun sg] itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't seem likely : the first floor was in the roof itself with sloping outside walls and few places to hang pictures . |
| 2 | I 'd say — and interrogate me in the cell itself with shouted , rapid-fire questions , punctuated by slaps in the face and , just once , hair-pulling . |
| 3 | Areas of application — from the computing industry itself to traditional industries which have been liberated from routine to the new technology — continue to proliferate . |
| 4 | When considering the weight or strength of the reasons for an action , the reasons for the rule can not be added to the rule itself as additional reasons . |
| 5 | Only she did n't need to think about it , not really , not about the lovemaking itself at any rate — it was indelibly printed on her mind in glorious Technicolor . |
| 6 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 7 | Maybe the weight itself of thousands of boys over the last couple of decades had led to some sort of subsidence . |
| 8 | But we get away from the Crucifixion itself with this third panel . |
| 9 | Erm this meant that how that er erm some of the problems actually arose from the outline landlord itself er by land law itself in that it discussed land reform in very general terms and the policy towards middle and rich peasants was left unclear erm which meant that how that classes were being mis-classified and the movement was getting out of hand . |
| 10 | Although an active sponsor itself for many years , Guinness also encourages others to use its sponsorship programmes to raise money for charity . |
| 11 | Gunnhild 's betrothal to Henry occurred in 1035 , and the marriage itself in 1036 ; she died of pestilence in Italy two years later . |
| 12 | This positive conviction carried with it the rejection of any attempt to compromise with other sources , authorities or norms , or to establish theology itself on any other foundation . |
| 13 | Dialectical Theology thus set out to reverse the approach , and in particular to emphasise , first , the ‘ Godness of God ’ ; second , the reality of the Word of God in Jesus Christ ; third , the impossibility of building theology itself on any other foundation . |
| 14 | We we need n't worry too much that thought but erm the Greek revolt itself in eighteen twenty to one to round about eighteen twenty five had gone on without any European intervention . |
| 15 | Turning now to the development work itself in general , the development work is going well . |
| 16 | The form that literary studies had taken during the second half of the nineteenth century , positivism , was , as we saw in the Introduction , largely based on the genetic approach ; critics , or rather scholars , concentrated their energies on uncovering the sources and genesis of particular works , and the role of biography , history and history of ideas in these genetic studies obviously reduced the importance of literature itself in literary scholarship . |
| 17 | For instance , there is a whole range of factors which could lead to high food costs , including bad purchasing , storage or portion control , but there is n't any supporting evidence in the case itself for most of these . |
| 18 | It is conduct which in these circumstances falls to be dealt with in the trial itself by judicial control upon admissibility of evidence , the judicial power to direct a verdict of not guilty , usually at the close of the prosecution 's case , or by the jury taking account of it in evaluating the evidence before them . |
| 19 | If the recession lasts much longer , and with present cuts in Government funding , the board will not have enough money to invest to tide itself over this period in which young people face such difficulties . |
| 20 | And I wish to argue further that in using drama to promote the individual 's growth we have inadvertently distorted drama itself on two counts . |
| 21 | But support for the Americans came from a wider section of the English people than the intellectuals : the presence of discharged and wounded soldiers created a loathing of war itself on humanitarian grounds . |
| 22 | The Government set up a Public Schools Commission to investigate the Direct Grant Schools : this brought together the sixty Heads of Direct Grant schools in the Headmasters ' Conference in much the same way as the Taunton Commission had led to the creation of the Conference itself in 1869 . |
| 23 | It was excavated in an unsystematic way , and the many illustrations of finds show that the emphasis was put on the recovered finds rather than on the site itself In this illustration , published soon after the excavation in 1883 , the burial was attributed to the Vikings . |
| 24 | Evelyn was educated at Emmanuel College , Cambridge , and the Middle Temple , and succeeded to his father 's business in 1627 , by which time the monopoly was under attack and the business itself in financial difficulty . |
| 25 | This relational emphasis is found in the repetition of the word eye itself in abstract nouns implying perception ( aspect , sign , glitter , ripple , glance , etc ) , and in verbs like see , mark , and look . |
| 26 | If , as has been guestimated , a draughtsman spends two-thirds of his time doing conceptual thinking , looking up tables , doing calculations , checking , etc. , and only one-third of his time with a pencil in his hand at the drawing-board , then an increase in productivity at the drawing-board itself of 300 per cent would mean an overall productivity increase in line with observed job reductions . |
| 27 | The Fulton Committee was not , by its terms of reference , allowed to look at the relationship with Parliament but , as a result , it blamed the service itself for many characteristics imposed on it by virtue of this relationship . |
| 28 | The Western world had already had a foretaste of this combination of factors following the price increases in the wake both of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and of the Iran revolution itself in 1978–79 . |
| 29 | The Emperor emerged from the cathedral itself at half past seven , escorted by the Abuna , the Patriarch of Alexandria and the Etchege , the senior monk of the realm who ranked second to the Abuna in the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Church . |
| 30 | The result , the result of such claims will be a rush to restore differentials and a general inflation in Local Authorities , with no increase in value of services for the community and I ask that the Labour Party should distance itself from this very mis-guided proposal for national wage proposals , minimum national wage proposals . |