Example sentences of "[to-vb] itself [adv] in " in BNC.

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1 We do n't want to upset them and it 's bound to smooth itself out in time . "
2 The discourse of ‘ diagnosis ’ represents a coercive use of metaphor in that its aim is to replicate itself faithfully in the conceptual idiolect of all people .
3 Those in power wanted the voice of newly independent Tanganyika to express itself forcefully in a printed medium that could be received not only nationally but also abroad .
4 Aside from the stalemated Iran-Iraq war , Lebanon continued to tear itself apart in continuous internecine struggles .
5 Without these criticism lacks intellectual rigour , and is unable to justify itself adequately in a world in which the personal and social utility of the arts is increasingly called into question .
6 It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through .
7 The latter urged far-reaching reforms that could only be implemented by a revolutionary dictatorship , which would need to realign itself internationally in order to secure protection against the United States .
8 This storm was not going to blow itself out in an hour — not even for him .
9 Its predecessor organisation , the Fiber Channel Systems Initiative ( FCSI ) , is already up and running , scheduled to reveal itself publicly in six to eight weeks .
10 Usually , a two-party system is better for a country than a many-party one , because it is less liable to tie itself up in knots .
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