Example sentences of "[noun sg] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understanding the advertising business inside out is vital , for it is they who must be aware of all the numerous restraints imposed , not only by the advertising industry itself through the Advertising Standards Authority and The Independent Television Companies Association ( ITCA ) , but also by the manufacturers of products in sensitive areas . |
| 2 | It 's a wonder any parts are left at all , what with debts of £6.5m and Sir John Hall still waging the boardroom battle that has very nearly claimed the club itself as the ultimate , ironic , victim . |
| 3 | which is useful for taking the heat off the window itself in the Summer . |
| 4 | Both local associations pointed unambiguously to slavery itself as the disruptive factor ; only with emancipation would ‘ a Population of turbulent Slaves [ be ] converted into one of peaceable Colonists ’ . |
| 5 | Since then the name has become associated with the sport itself in the form of windsurfing . |
| 6 | ‘ There is a power given by the Act itself to the minister to modify another section of the Act so that when the minister does produce that modification … that regulation becomes in fact part of the Act . |
| 7 | In daylight the mound is still to be seen and is worth the climb for views of the sea , the plain of Holderness , and the village itself with the church standing proudly at the west end of the village . |
| 8 | Who then , was to determine whether or not the water came from faults and fissures in the rock , or from the vein itself in the usual manner ? |
| 9 | This apparently involves sending patients an eyesight test card and then running through the test itself over the telephone . |
| 10 | Indeed the relationship frequently extends beyond the work itself to the farmer 's involvement in the domestic life of his employees . |
| 11 | She ran for her life , never seeing the figure detach itself from the wall , as she did in that far off childhood nightmare . |
| 12 | He could see a figure within the Lift detach itself from the group and glance quickly in his direction . |
| 13 | Marine Insurance covering injury or damage you may cause to third parties with one of our yachts , and accidental losses or damage to the yacht itself over the amount of £320 . |
| 14 | Specifically , it is to query the new received wisdom , that the alternative party to the Conservatives in British politics has only to take the consumerist road , and present itself as the protector of the individual against Big Business and Big Government . |
| 15 | In natural language indexing which uses a stoplist only , the indexing language is open ; there is no record other than the index itself of the indexing terms that have been assigned . |
| 16 | alkali , calcium oxide as the base , calcium itself as the metal , calcium carbonate as the carbonate . |
| 17 | In chains he tells the Sanhedrin itself about the one name in heaven by which we must be saved . |
| 18 | How many other twenty-two-year-olds stayed in on a Saturday night just listening to the rain hurl itself against the windows ? |
| 19 | Do not necessarily accept the doctor 's word for this , you have your own duty to the client and the doctor may not have taken into account the importance of the case itself to the client 's best interest . |
| 20 | I WAS surprised to read in the article by Harry Mead ( Echo January 17 ) and your editorial ( January 20 ) where , after a careful scrutiny of the present troubles in Northern Ireland , both of your suggested conclusions were for accepting the defeatist attitude of the greater good subordinating itself to the prevalent evil . |
| 21 | Taking British Rail itself into the VIP train market was an altogether different matter . |
| 22 | although on one level Balzac 's story is ‘ about ’ castration ( one of the characters is a castrato singer ) , in Barthes 's reading the theme of castration is seen as a pretext for a kind of reflexive anxiety on the part of the text itself concerning the very possibility of representation . |
| 23 | It is obvious that her cares very deeply about the theatre and acting , from the teaching of drama itself to the condition of theatre countrywide . |
| 24 | Just as children are very familiar with drama itself through the dramatic fictions that they see enacted on television and on film , so too they have encountered the idea of still images in other contexts : their own family snapshots , freeze frame on the video recorder , sculptures , waxworks and comic strips . |
| 25 | Firstly , there is the problem of the protestant population itself in the North . |
| 26 | Apart from the impetus that new railways gave to British industrial strength , railway-building abroad was the means for an expansion of British capital overseas , through loans to railway companies and states , and the export of British capitalism itself in the establishment of British enterprises and railway companies abroad . |
| 27 | I found a piece of blue-grey silk for the background , to tone in with the recipient 's decor , and selected the wooden frame and the gold tones in the picture itself for the same reason . |
| 28 | Forces conspire to push you onto the arête itself at the point where the overlap is reached , although good protection can be arranged to ease the passage of a couple of moves up the gently overhanging right wall of the buttress . |
| 29 | As regards the nature of comparative investigation itself within the subject , Sturmthal ( 1958 , p. 77 ) defines it as ‘ research dealing with the same ( or similar or related ) phenomena in different countries ’ . |
| 30 | Their main objective was to seize and hold the canal itself against the demolition attacks which had long been threatened by Gen Noriega . |