Example sentences of "[vb infin] itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For that reason , the Territorial Army does not consider itself in any way a second-class alternative . |
| 2 | From the National Palace , General Garcia , flanked by senior officers and political leaders , told the country that Congress would first purge itself of corrupt members and then elect a new president . |
| 3 | They wanted more reforms , not less , and an active role to play in helping the country rid itself of social ills . |
| 4 | The importance of the concession theory is that it establishes a theoretical framework sympathetic to state intervention ; the company is a creature of the state , existing to promote the public welfare , and as such the state has the right to interfere in its internal affairs and need not confine itself to external , general-law regulation . |
| 5 | If this legislation was repealed , the Pope promised , the church would confine itself to religious matters . |
| 6 | The Wolfenden Committee , in distinguishing between public and private behaviour , also drew a distinction between ‘ crime ’ and ‘ sin ’ , and concluded that ‘ as a general proposition it will be universally accepted that the law is not concerned with private morals or ethical sanctions ’ , and further , ‘ it is not the duty of the law to concern itself with immorality as such … it should confine itself to those activities which offend against public order and decency and expose the ordinary citizen to what is offensive or injurious ’ . |
| 7 | Around the same time , I entered this competition — it was a kind of beauty competition , although it did n't describe itself in that way . |
| 8 | The West must now steel itself for military action in Bosnia |
| 9 | But as he drove himself into a last titanic effort to surface into the light , the pain began to divide and concentrate itself in three separate areas of his body ; his head , his right arm and his chest . |
| 10 | Low-grade malnutrition ( slightly fewer vitamins and minerals than you need ; too much fat and sugar and too little fibre ) can show itself in small , insidious ways . |
| 11 | Internally , rising damp will show itself in several ways . |
| 12 | But he is insisting , in black and white terms , that the divine sonship , mediated by the Spirit , must show itself in changed behaviour . |
| 13 | The lack of academic autonomy will show itself in some form or other . |
| 14 | The pattern will repeat itself throughout much of the day , with discussion following each presentation . |
| 15 | To generate a biological molecule like haemoglobin , the red pigment in blood , by simple sieving would be equivalent to taking all the amino-acid building blocks of haemoglobin , jumbling them up at random , and hoping that the haemoglobin molecule would reconstitute itself by sheer luck . |
| 16 | For busy housewives , Christmas can present itself with other problems — over-excited children and a million and one things to do . |
| 17 | It is a problem which comes up at various points in considering the relations between biology and human practices , and may be put in the following way : how is a phenotypic character which would present itself in other species as a behavioural tendency represented in a species which has a culture , language and conceptual thought ? |
| 18 | It will settle and drape itself on either side forming a natural , water-shedding thatch . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , in recent years we have been moving , albeit slowly and hesitantly , towards the view that the primary school should regard itself as one element in a united national service to children . |
| 20 | Like many so-called archaic methods it was the result of long adaption of means to ends ; like many supposed pockets of peasant routine the Basque system could adapt itself to new demands . |
| 21 | Thames can congratulate itself on this scheme , but the BBC must feel still more satisfaction . |
| 22 | The Rottweiler is basically a calm , confident and courageous dog with a self-assured aloofness that does not lend itself to immediate and indiscriminate friendships . |
| 23 | Finally , the information found may lend itself to various forms of presentation , ranging from fact sheets to some kind of argument for or against various issues . |
| 24 | In Snowdonia , Snowdon itself could lend itself to such management as could the Glyder and Tryfan mountain block . |
| 25 | In Snowdonia , Snowdon itself could lend itself to such management as could the Glyder and Tryfan mountain block . |
| 26 | One difference is this : Sartre 's aim is the philosophical one of redescribing the location of bodily sensations in a way which does not lend itself to such misunderstandings as that two people could feel the same pain as they can see the same table . |
| 27 | The self-contained social circle of most farmers , commented upon in Chapter 3 , does not particularly lend itself to such empathy , but farmers will ignore the aspirations of the other 97 per cent of the population at their peril — and so , for that matter , will conservationists . |
| 28 | Reverting to my opening discussion of the evolution of the ego and superego , we can readily see the importance of these stages and we can understand why it is that the sexual drive should lend itself to such apparently irrelevant associations as the oral and anal zones . |
| 29 | I have also tried to divide the particular provisions of the precedents into chapters , where appropriate , but I feel that the agreement does not lend itself to such a division , and I have therefore dealt with that in a chapter by itself . |
| 30 | It can pretend it is using colour film from 50 to 400 ASA , which will keep most happy snappers occupied , but does n't really lend itself to low-light photography or sports . |