Example sentences of "[to-vb] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China . |
| 2 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution ; it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China ( ROC ) . |
| 3 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 4 | Oxford Polytechnic , deriving from a further education institution with poor facilities , had a struggle to establish itself with the CNAA . |
| 5 | It was , however , also a period when complete adult suffrage was achieved , and in which a political consensus was built up that enabled the Labour Party to establish itself alongside the older parties , so that an element of working-class power developed without turning into a revolutionary force . |
| 6 | With all of its efforts to establish itself in the Unix marketplace , DEC has sometimes been in danger of convincing its own VMS customers that the traditional VAX lines have not been keeping up with Unix in the price/performance race . |
| 7 | He then experimentally removed an owner , and allowed a previous intruder ( which had lost against the removed owner ) to establish itself in the territory . |
| 8 | An SBU with high capital intensity could well be at an early stage of its product life-cycle , when one would expect it to be building up its investment relative to sales and also experiencing low profitability as it fights to establish itself in the market . |
| 9 | The guide took his place at centre stern and , after the raft had turned in a circle to adjust itself to the current , the paddling rhythm set in to send it down-river towards the white foam that could be seen rising between the distant boulders . |
| 10 | If she 's not careful , her poor old taxi is going to find itself off the road for a week . |
| 11 | The first generation to find itself in the vanguard after the second world war mistrusted opera , felt its connections with the old order too oppressive . |
| 12 | The Socialist League began to find itself in the same critical relationship with the Labour Party which had forced its predecessor , the ILP , to disaffiliate . |
| 13 | BRITAIN 'S biotechnology company , Celltech , is making a pitch at a £2000 million market to pull itself into the black . |
| 14 | The bloodied torso of what had been Balor lay twitching on the ground , moving clumsily , trying to pull itself along the ground , like a monstrous beetle which has been turned on its shelly back and can not right itself . |
| 15 | America had managed to extract itself from the quicksand at last . |
| 16 | European civilization was the first to impose itself on the whole surface of the globe . |
| 17 | Decentralization permits each locality to provide itself with the quantity of the good it prefers . |
| 18 | Now , it was reaching out , spiralling its essence down towards the wormhole in the fabric of the Dark , ready to feed itself into the earthly plane , to become one with the Vessel . |
| 19 | The discovery that he was still here , that his heart had found time , in that sinister cell he inhabited , to entrench itself in the obsessions of his lifetime , and that he believed himself to be in contact with the ghost of the dead king , were complications Huy could have done without . |
| 20 | Yet when Labour 's prospects are rosiest , it always seems to shoot itself in the foot . |
| 21 | Its one rolling , swollen eye was fixed on Cardiff even as the thing thrashed with blackened , elongated and monstrously deadly arms at the brickwork , trying to heave itself through the aperture and into the basement . |
| 22 | In fact there was precious little to rely on in the unconscious unless the product was good enough to sell itself to the conscious senses , in which case the unconscious appeal was superfluous . |
| 23 | In the ignominious collapse of the grand scheme the two separated , each to accommodate itself to the developing capitalist system , each to find its own way forward within the system and as part of it . |
| 24 | In their hands love seemed a narrow-eyed , exclusive , selfish bastard , to enjoy itself at the expense of a woman who now lay in bed in Auntie Jean 's house , her life unconsidered . |
| 25 | It heralded the end of the session , as Danny 's mood seemed to transmit itself to the others and they too became restless . |
| 26 | Indeed , all of Mrs Crump 's not inconsiderable bulk seemed determined to contract itself before the Honourable and her movements , her voice , her gestures declined in decent proportion to her increased sense of intimacy . |
| 27 | In the 1930s , Mr Justice Stone declared that the United States Supreme Court ought not to see itself as the sole guardian of the constitution . |
| 28 | Labour also moved towards more concern for the consumer , towards an acceptance of the need for legal curbs on the power of the unions , and the party 's need to confirm itself as the defence of the law and order sought by working-class citizens . |
| 29 | Such a figure tends to replicate itself in the relationships and practices in which children engage in later life . |
| 30 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |