Example sentences of "[v-ing] itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly enough Larry Witty , the General Secretary of the Labour Party , said at last year 's Labour Party Conference that if it had not been for the steadily , steady influence of the unions during the eighties , when the Party was tearing itself in two , we would not have a Labour Party today . |
| 2 | Aligning itself with popular art , her previous production includes a cartoon strip expliqué of Wagner 's Ring cycle with rodent protagonists . |
| 3 | But it would be very odd if a corporation had no means of protecting itself against wrong ; and if its property is injured by slander it has no means of redress except by action . |
| 4 | But it would be very odd if a corporation had no means of protecting itself against wrong ; and if its property is injured by slander it has no means of redress except by action . |
| 5 | Furthermore , any movement basing itself on one man , with an ideology of systematic hostility to parliamentary politics and of vocal nationalism , was bound to be classified on the extreme right . |
| 6 | Consider a rebel stretch of human DNA that is capable of snipping itself out of its chromosome , floating freely in the cell , perhaps multiplying itself up into many copies , and then splicing itself into another chromosome . |
| 7 | In all cases , the inner mental being of a creature is similar throughout its life cycle , though expressing itself through different outward physical forms as it metamorphoses . |
| 8 | The originality of a critical mind , expressing itself in creative and sometimes idiosyncratic science , has often manifested itself in theological deviation . |
| 9 | Another foresees a more conservative role for the middle class , expressing itself in active opposition to socialism as a process of increasing public ownership or control of industry and expanding welfare services , and in a reassertion of the desirability of a more laissez-faire type of economy . |
| 10 | In addressing itself to such possibilities , however , A Bend in the River , for all its air of simplicity , is never simple . |
| 11 | If anything it is more open to criticism for solely addressing itself to these areas . |
| 12 | There were , moreover , good reasons why a rapidly-growing industry such as electricity should raise a large proportion of its capital on the market rather than financing itself through higher earnings , as some of the critics suggested . |
| 13 | Modern instrumentalists elaborate Kautskly 's proposition that the capitalist class rules but does not itself govern , contenting itself with ruling successive governments , a claim which is commonly elaborated through a point-by-point critique of pluralism . |
| 14 | The incident precipitated three days of violence and looting that tarnished Miami 's reputation at a time when the city was preening itself for one of America 's premier sporting events , the Super Bowl . |
| 15 | The polypary may occur at the end of a stalk , giving the coral the appearance of a toadstool , or alternatively , in encrusting forms , the polypary may rest directly on the substrate , attaching itself by rootlike processes as the coral grows . |
| 16 | RAF fear : The RAF is bracing itself for compulsory redundancies after the news that 2,200 jobs must go . |
| 17 | In the ornate new council chamber , Mayor Murphy was trying to convince the city council that to be a real Edwardian Mayor he ought to wear mayoral robes , as they did in England ; the newly extended hospital was bracing itself for additional accident cases ; and Hank Stych stood in the airport at Calgary waiting for a local plane to take him north to Tollemarche . |
| 18 | The print industry is bracing itself for industrial action from next Monday , Printing World reports . |
| 19 | Shares of the £11 billion company , privatised in 1986 , had already started to slide last night and the market is bracing itself for big falls today . |
| 20 | This seems to suggest that EModE was consciously directing itself towards modern RP — in a state of ‘ becoming ’ RP , so to speak . |
| 21 | By limiting itself to cautious probing on the 21st ( all except for the disobedient von Zwehl who had registered the day 's only success ) , it had lost a valuable day . |
| 22 | Thames will have a 15 per cent stake in the unnamed channel , with BBCE limiting itself to 20 per cent . |
| 23 | Their love life is steadily divesting itself of all irregularities . |
| 24 | Germany is now paying a price few other countries would have accepted for not providing itself with better citizenship and immigration laws in the calmer years before unification . |
| 25 | Commenting on Labour 's public expenditure plans , The Economist said : ’ It has tried to respond to its familiar dilemma — of wanting to be a high-spending party without being a high-taxing one — by splitting itself in two . |
| 26 | It might have invested too little in building its capital stock , thus perhaps enfeebling itself in future competition with foreign rivals . |
| 27 | Er opposed to God and of which may well be thought of as incarnating itself in those men in every generation , who have sin to be the blatant opponents of God . |
| 28 | I think oftahis erasure as a kind of trembling hypochondria always curing itself with unnecessary surgery . |
| 29 | His objection was that these poetic celebrations of the coarse side of army life were an offence against English traditions of Christian civilisation , forming part of a larger ‘ back wave ’ which was manifesting itself in various ways : ‘ the Hooligan in Politics , in Literature , and Journalism ’ , ‘ the Hooligan spirit of patriotism ’ , and all the other barbaric symptoms of ‘ the restless and uninstructed Hooliganism of the time ’ above which ‘ the flag of a Hooligan Imperialism is raised ’ . |
| 30 | One interesting reaction was that in stating , for example , that science should be taught to all pupils in some form or other in the last two years of schooling for 10–20 per cent of the time ( in addition to a broad course up to age 13 years ) , the DES was implicitly committing itself to increased resources , in terms of teachers and facilities . |