Example sentences of "[to-vb] itself with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the animal will work in order to provide itself with those conditions . |
| 2 | Here and elsewhere , the government strove to identify itself with new themes . |
| 3 | Quite apart from such specific minor functions , there are no practical restraints upon either House of Parliament seeking to busy itself with any task whatever that it cares to assume . |
| 4 | Dickinson half-rose and screamed at the man but the plane lumbered on seeming to spread itself with deliberate stupidity right across his path . |
| 5 | The penal system needs to legitimate itself with three groups of people : with the public ( including politicians , commentators etc. ) , with penal staff ( including prison staff and probation officers ) and with the penal subjects ( prisoners , probationers and others who are subject to penal treatment ) . |
| 6 | Europe began to equip itself with electrical power stations ; London 's first was the Edison Holborn Viaduct station of 1882 . |
| 7 | Once the phase of immediate implementation was passed , this group came little by little to realign itself with many in the first group against whom they had in the conciliar years themselves taken quite a clear stand : a new status quo must be achieved if the Church was not to be upset by ceaseless change and debate . |
| 8 | Others , including Hobson and Brailsford , went further , arguing that any League would have to concern itself with economic and social , as well as purely diplomatic , matters if the deeper causes of war were to be addressed . |
| 9 | This constituted an altogether more active management , which had to concern itself with professional matters . |
| 10 | Science , as we know , has tremendous potential to change the way we live ; yet it professes not to concern itself with moral issues , insisting upon its own objectivity . |
| 11 | At the time , the Board was primarily concerned with accounting standard-setting for business organizations , but it saw the need to involve itself with non-business organizations as well and this research study was its first move in that direction . |