Example sentences of "itself [verb] to the " in BNC.

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1 Merton 's ( 1938 ) attempt to explain crime as a response to anomie — the disjuncture between cultural goals of success and legitimate opportunity structures through which success might be realized — has been reproduced over 110 times , a fact which in itself testifies to the importance of this analysis .
2 The actual administration of services authorized by Acts is a process that itself contributes to the making of social policy .
3 The prosody of Dame Sirith may be unobtrusive , but as such it represents a smooth and polished performance that itself contributes to the tone of the work .
4 The Glossopteris flora was only one of several widespread late Palaeozoic floras and was itself limited to the then Gondwana region .
5 But it could not in my judgment , be done simply by a document which itself refers to the contract , and I reject Mr Ritchie 's submission on this …
6 But even in times of privation , idealism could sustain itself thanks to the prospect that talent and motivation would be identified and promoted .
7 BR itself came to the rescue and offered to provide an additional DMU , albeit a first-generation unit , to provide a better service .
8 And this is where we 've decided that what we really need is young engineers , in other words er , people who have just entered the profession itself to talk to the school children .
9 However , in our application , the aircraft , which has no undercarriage of its own , travels on a trolley which is itself tethered to the rotating pylon head .
10 Sawyer 's interim regime — which had invited the participation of his opponents — was not itself party to the Banjul agreement .
11 But in addition , the strategy LDDC chose to adopt has itself contributed to the problems they now face :
12 The seven communities that made up the population of Møn in those days ranged round one or other of the churches and each community made itself known to the others in a common language of bells .
13 Increasingly candidates thought able enough were entered for O and even A levels ( and rightly , because there was at first no other examination for them to take ) and when the CSE examination was introduced for those thought not to be up to O level , the top grade of CSE was soon deemed to count as an O level , and thus itself to aspire to the academic .
14 The material is cut to shape and fixed to a timber framework , itself fixed to the opening .
15 Piaget , however , asserts in the introduction to his work that ‘ We shall rather show that the acquisition of language is itself subordinated to the workings of a symbolic function which can be seen in the development of imitation and play as well as in that of verbal mechanisms ’ ( 1962 : 1–2 ; see Vygotsky 1978 for a contrary view ) .
16 At this point the problem of context itself comes to the fore .
17 The point , however , that the inquirer should bear in mind is that these exemptions and exceptions have been granted because the organisations concerned have demonstrated that either they are already regulated by other statutes or are subject to a reporting procedure through branch returns to a central body which itself reports to the Charity Commission .
18 I have already argued ( Chapter l ) that capitalist development does not of itself lead to the political unification of the working class .
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