Example sentences of "[noun sg] itself in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | which is useful for taking the heat off the window itself in the Summer . |
| 2 | Since then the name has become associated with the sport itself in the form of windsurfing . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Firstly , there is the problem of the protestant population itself in the North . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ironically , the society is having to fight against the forces of nature itself in the bid to stop the reedbed being swallowed by fast-encroaching willows and scrub which would destroy much of the area 's significance . |
| 7 | Er I take the the er dynamo itself in the powerhouse was erm |
| 8 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 9 | Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved . |
| 10 | Charles and his brother James also attacked the charter itself in the courts . |
| 11 | If it travelled up into the skull it might ricochet off the skull table and bed itself in the bone . |
| 12 | Other reports implicating the Iranian government itself in the assassination were denied on Aug. 12 by a Foreign Ministry spokesman who said that " Iran has always strongly condemned any terrorist act " . |
| 13 | People were coming to accept that Nonconformist chapels should look like ‘ churches ’ and that Nonconformist services should be more ‘ dignified ’ and ‘ ecclesiastical ’ ; it was not surprising that people should come to view the nature of the Church itself in a different vein from their forefathers . |
| 14 | Perhaps not : Wimbledon , Open Golf and even cricket itself in the shape of Sunday play in Test matches will all challenge for competition . |
| 15 | Indeed , the basis of the new scheme had been proposed by the Law Society itself in a memorandum published in 1968 . |
| 16 | Envy of the children — or over-concentration upon them by the other partner -will show itself in a dozen ways in attitudes and actions . |
| 17 | In America Dr James Tyler Kent was appalled by such modifications , feeling that many of the practices which Hahnemann had campaigned against had crept into the practice of homoeopathy itself in the one hundred or so years since its rediscovery . |
| 18 | She looked a little worn and bleary-eyed , though her long , lion-coloured hair shone like health itself in the brassy sunlight of mid-day . |
| 19 | Oh , much ; just like the profession itself in a way . |
| 20 | Characteristically within traditional professions such as Law and Medicine , it would have been beyond the bounds of decency to put any of one 's peers or the profession itself in a morally ambiguous or cynical light . |
| 21 | The consequence of this progressive decline in popularity has been not only a sustained attack on what are perceived as the inadequacies of communist ideology and the Soviet system itself in the 1980s ( and there is no more iconoclastic an exponent of this form of criticism than Nizan 's own grandson , Emmanuel Todd ) , but more specifically , a tendency to overplay the critically dissident aspects of Nizan 's life and work , and to pass over in silence the more constructive , orthodox communist slant of his writings . |
| 22 | The Norton product is in short supply , but Transparent hopes to begin manufacturing software itself in the near future . |