Example sentences of "[vb past] itself the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 2 | The communist-controlled north under Kim 11-sung proclaimed itself the Democratic People 's Republic , the capitalist south under Syngman Rhee became the Republic of Korea . |
| 3 | He argues that a demand which emanated from the earnings of export staples became itself the driving force behind even greater efforts to balance the increasing import of desired English manufactured goods . |
| 4 | The 499-member Congress held its constituent session on March 11-12 , when it declared itself the constitutional representative of the Estonian people and passed resolutions calling for restoration of Estonia 's independent statehood and the withdrawal of Soviet troops stationed in the republic . |
| 5 | It called itself the European Parliamentary Assembly and symbolically arranged the seating of delegates by political affiliation rather than by nationality . |
| 6 | Four parties had previously collaborated with the SED within the National Front : ( i ) the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) which merged with the West German CDU on Oct. 1 [ see p. 37761 ] ; ( ii ) the Democratic Farmers ' Party of Germany ( DBD ) , whose chair , Günther Maleuda , resigned on June 25 and was temporarily replaced by Ulrich Junghanns pending a merger with the CDU ; ( iii ) the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany ( LDPD ) , which renamed itself the Liberal Democratic Party and joined the new League of Free Democrats in February 1990 and merged with the West German FDP in August [ see p. 37661 ] ; and ( iv ) the National Democratic Party of Germany ( NDPD ) which joined the League of Free Democrats in March [ see pp. 37260 ; 37302 ] . |
| 7 | The Supreme Soviet also officially renamed itself the Moldavian Parliament . |
| 8 | It blithely renamed itself the Belorussian Party . |
| 9 | The Bulgarian Communist Party renamed itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party on April 3 , calling the decision a clean break with " the dictatorship of the time before Nov. 10 , 1989 , which was a dictatorship not only over the people , but over the party as well " . |
| 10 | The Lithuanian Communist Party declared its independence from the Soviet CP in December 1989 , and renamed itself the Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party ( DLP ) in December 1990 [ see p. 37921 ] , but was banned on Aug. 23 , 1991 [ see p. 38373 ] . |
| 11 | The Kaunas branch renamed itself the Lithuanian Conservative Union on March 21 . |
| 12 | He seems to be cashing in on the goodwill of those who regret the party 's ‘ new start ’ last month when it renamed itself the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) . |
| 13 | It also conveyed the message that the CFLN — which renamed itself the Provisional Government of the French Republic ( GPRF — Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Français ) as of June 1944 — had a role beyond liberation . |