Example sentences of "[v-ing] itself in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tension between two historical periods , revealing itself in the narrative as an opposition between the unconscious , non-reflective life style of a father , Antoine Bloye , and the critical , politically aware conscience of a son ( Pierre Bloye ) /communist narrator ( Paul Nizan ) , constitutes the historical centre of this text . |
| 2 | But on other occasions , to use a phrase of Nietzsche , ‘ a thought comes when ‘ it ’ wants , not when I want ’ , explodes and opens out too fast in in too complex ramifications to be disciplined , takes bold analogical leaps in defiance of logical rigour ; the problem on which it centres is obscure , defining itself in the process of being solved , and as he struggles to formulate it the thought is running in another direction , yet he yields to the flow out of a vague intimation that it will circle back ; for the final effort to force the argument into a coherent and publicly testable form — the only assurance even for himself that he is illumined and not deluded — he waits until the time comes to complete it on paper . |
| 3 | Computervision Corp so wants to put its sad ownership by Prime Computer Inc behind it that it is remaking itself in the pure computer-aided design software image of the company Prime acquired as quickly as it can . |
| 4 | The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay . |
| 5 | A sport 's first concern , Pascoe says , should be its own development and that means presenting itself in the best possible way . |
| 6 | Security officials feared that it was re-establishing itself in the region , possibly with the help of the small Catalan secessionist group Terra Lliure . |
| 7 | We saw in Chapter 1 that , in Britain , there is some dispute as to when rehabilitation began to make serious inroads into penal practice : Foucault saw it as manifesting itself in the rise of the prison as the dominant penal institution ; Garland puts it much later , in the early part of this century . |
| 8 | Fairness also appears to have a more substantive role manifesting itself in the prohibition of discrimination , in the case law on estoppel , in the proportionality of the punishment to the offence committed , in cases where delay has been held prejudicial to important rights , and in the development of the idea of legitimate expectations . |
| 9 | The boy fears retaliation from his father , manifesting itself in the ‘ castration syndrome ’ . |
| 10 | Her voice faded as her body weakened and drooped , so that she seemed no more than the shadow of the eagle she must once have been , and a shadow that was losing itself in the darkness of a cage . |
| 11 | Even though there was a silencer on the gun , the detonation and the whack of the bullet burying itself in the floorboards were unmistakable . |
| 12 | As the present government , despite its ‘ hands off , free market ’ attitudes , is involving itself in the workings of the pub trade , then it must shoulder the responsibility for the present state of affairs and insist that arbitration on rents must be genuinely independent and not loaded in favour of the brewers . |
| 13 | She began to recognise Finn 's idiosyncratic painter 's hand , showing itself in the blossoming horses , the queer , saucer-shaped faces of pig and owl , the speckled peacock glory of the birds , the strained , professional grimaces on the faces of the tumblers , the tight-lipped endeavour on the faces of the hammering men . |
| 14 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
| 15 | The remainder deflected downwards into the rear pressurised compartment , went straight through the conduit carrying the cables to the lower rear turret , then carried on into the rear gunner 's position , perforating the hatch and embedding itself in the lagging on the armour plating at the rear of the position . |
| 16 | We see the struggle asserting itself in the preface to his poem ‘ The Glass Dog ’ ( Flowers for Hitler ) : |
| 17 | Lord Cledwyn , the Opposition leader in the Lords , warned that destabilisation of Warsaw Pact countries might see history repeating itself in the balkanisation of Eastern Europe and in ethnic and territorial disputes . |
| 18 | What goes on in the US today has a habit of repeating itself in the UK tomorrow . |
| 19 | ‘ If , ’ he says , ‘ the city council grants full planning permission for The Galleries in the next few weeks , it will not simply be shooting itself in the foot but blowing off its entire leg . ’ |
| 20 | The African lungfish copes with the dry heat of summer by interring itself in the mud . |