Example sentences of "[to-vb] itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others — and the majority , no doubt — would wait anxiously for any news as a French invasion force was massing ready to launch itself against English shores . |
| 2 | To be fished on the prolific waters around Galway this new event promises to establish itself as one of Ireland 's best . |
| 3 | It indicates the means whereby a form of Christianity which entirely circumvented the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome began to establish itself in Western Europe . |
| 4 | Britain managed to isolate itself in international fora — such as the 35 Nation Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution convened by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe ( UN ECE ) — by rejecting the scientific consensus that forest decline was linked to air pollution from industry , power stations and vehicles . |
| 5 | As time goes by it is likely to find itself under increasing pressure , for the glossy men are now moving into the petrology field too . |
| 6 | His belly was beginning to pull itself into painful spasms . |
| 7 | De Gaulle wanted first for the Commission to end the pretence that it was a potential European government , and also its efforts to impose itself on national governments ; and second that if the Treaty of Rome requirements about majority voting were to apply , they should not be permitted to do so in situations where a member state deemed its vital interests to be at risk . |
| 8 | Even after stripping out the jingoism that tends to impose itself on British attitudes towards the game , the fact remains that it was a host of late-Victorian engineers , merchants and military men who took the rudiments of football abroad with them , almost as missionaries . |
| 9 | So the animal will work in order to provide itself with those conditions . |
| 10 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp 's NTT Mobile Communications Network is to split itself into nine regional units : its present headquarters in Tokyo will become the group 's parent company , which will wholly own the equity of the eight subsidiaries , and the move is intended to improve efficiency and competitiveness in the fight with its biggest domestic rival Daini Denden Inc , which has no unit in Tokyo and Tokai area , which together account for half the population . |
| 11 | ICI is proposing to split itself into two companies ; its drugs and agrochemicals operations would become ICI Bio and would be a separate publicly listed company . |
| 12 | Preparing to split itself into two separate businesses , ICI has belatedly recognised that drastic action is needed to sharpen its focus , quicken management responses and increase shareholder value . |
| 13 | If Microsoft is found to have a case to answer , the minimum possibility is that the company is forced to sign a consent decree under which it has to unbundle , and agree not to bundle in future — for instance it might have to dismantle Windows for Workgroups and sell the networking elements as a separate product ( similar networking code will be an integral part of standard Windows NT ) ; at worst , the company could be forced to split itself into two completely different companies , one for operating systems and languages , the other for applications . |
| 14 | If so , America will have missed its best opportunity to lock itself into low inflation . |
| 15 | Six Local Art Societies , Art Gallery in the Town Centre , Queensway , Billingham ( until March 14 ) IT seems to me that the ink was barely dry on my last little piece which suggested that Darlington Society of Arts seemed content to restrict itself to one exhibition per year when , all of a sudden , came news that Darlington , the CAS and Hartlepool Art Club were to join forces respectively the Hambleton , Leven and Yarm art societies to put on a joint show of their work at Billingham . |
| 16 | I do n't ask you to sell better , ladies and gentlemen , I do n't ask you to sell itself for certain companies , I 'd like you to , but I do n't . |
| 17 | John Mansfield Comprehensive School , Peterborough was the first school to sell itself on local radio . |
| 18 | Trying to uproot itself into each escaping screech , |
| 19 | Dulwich inevitably suffers from its geographical situation four miles south of central London , and currently lacks any surplus funds to promote itself through increased advertising . |
| 20 | This supposition is mistaken , according to the argument of this book ; the imperative to become equally aware from different spatial , temporal and personal viewpoints is independent of moral traditions and habits , and we need not doubt that under any conditions spontaneity will continue to channel itself in selfish or unselfish directions with inequality or equality of awareness . |
| 21 | Leading politicians in Britain , particularly in the mid-nineteenth century Liberal Party , scorned the imperial enterprise as no more than a way of offering the unemployable aristocracy a means to enrich itself at heavy cost to the innocent . |
| 22 | The subject continues to invest itself in cultural forms , identifying , for example , with sports , cinema , clothing , a political line , or certain relationships ; but such is the scale of modern society that the same individual may become absurdly overextended into essentially superficial relationships , none of which augments his or her being , and yet simultaneously , may have nothing at all in common with another overextended individual who has selected entirely different areas of the surrounding culture . |
| 23 | Equally , the lesbian and gay movement needs to make far more serious and energetic efforts to rid itself of racist assumptions in its political agenda . |
| 24 | The origins of this popular movement lie in the first wave of pressure for disarmament , which began with the emergence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) in 1958 and ended in 1964 , with its decline in the face of the new Labour Government 's failure to rid itself of nuclear weapons . |
| 25 | The Office for Fine Arts in the Netherlands has decided to rid itself of most of the 230,000 works of art which have been left to deteriorate in a number of large depots around the country . |
| 26 | The positions of Byelorussia and Kazakhstan are less clear , while the Ukraine , with the nightmare of Chernobyl etched on its consciousness , wants to rid itself of those weapons . |
| 27 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 28 | It is also a famously independent place , for long the capital of this little region of Baréges , and sufficiently cut off to administer itself as another of the remarkably enlightened mountain ‘ republics ’ . |
| 29 | This faction began to organise itself in 1989 at the founding conference of the United Front of Workers ( OFR ) in Leningrad in July 1989 . |
| 30 | It is up to the government to help itself in this respect by providing more judges or by limiting access to judicial review by legislation . |