Example sentences of "[noun sg] itself as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | alkali , calcium oxide as the base , calcium itself as the metal , calcium carbonate as the carbonate . |
| 5 | In the context of an employing organisation , this would imply that an individual 's major motivation would be not so much the job itself as the opportunity to mix with other people . |
| 6 | To use the landscape itself as the stage or background for artistic expression takes us to the very boundaries of art until , as we step across , we realize that the whole of life is , or could be , Art . |
| 7 | Four elements of interest and influence need to be weighed against each other , namely the effect of the parent as the educator who is helped by the school , the school as the institutional teacher who is helped by the parent , the school as the manager and decider ( with the parent being kept informed ) and the school itself as the only " real " provider of education . |
| 8 | One big cost in BEM system , wiring plant and rooms to the computer , can now be avoided by using the mains cabling itself as the data communication network . |