Example sentences of "itself in [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the anti-colonial revolutions and the Soviet Union today external oppression is as commonly the fundamental source of the creation of a national group , no matter how much that group defines itself in relationship to inherited cultural symbols or a supposedly common past . |
| 2 | After the Civil War , the Bolshevik party had recreated itself in response to events ; it was virtually a new organization . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps it had tried to reveal itself in response to some wish or command that was felt in the room ’ , thinks Frodo , and he is clearly right . |
| 4 | It was not part of our brief to undertake a comparative study of policy , strategy and professional roles and relationships in different LEAs , but we strongly commend the study as an adjunct to the appraisal of Authority practices to which Leeds committed itself in response to the recommendations in our final report . |
| 5 | This may show itself in attempts to ‘ beat the system ’ . |
| 6 | More , the fact that this being , Homo sapiens , is from the moment of birth aware of itself in relation to others , and experiences and defines itself in such a relational mode , suggests the universal , pre-cultural basis of a relational concept that appears to occur in one form or another in all human cultural systems : the complementarity of Self and Other ; Us and Them . |
| 7 | As in much of the previous century , during the early seventeenth century the English church was obliged to define itself in relation to the rival religious power blocs within continental Europe . |
| 8 | The way in which a municipality legislates and the way in which it administers the legislation it enacts and conducts itself in relation to activities which it lawfully undertakes can not but create a municipal reputation , be it good , bad or indifferent . |
| 9 | An identical picture presents itself in relation to police response to domestic and sexual attack . |
| 10 | Where that can not be achieved , the formation of separate partnerships under a single firm-name may be a more successful method of preserving unity ; ( 2 ) the rivalry mentioned above will commonly show itself in relation to the profitability of each office . |
| 11 | It therefore found itself in opposition to what it regarded as the stupidity , incompetence and prejudice of the actual holders of political and economic power . |
| 12 | In Transylvania such sentiments were attacked by the right-wing Romanian nationalist organization , Vatra Romaneasca ( " Romanian Hearth " ) , which set itself in opposition to the rising tide of expectation on the part of Hungary , the unspoken Hungarian aim , in Vatra 's opinion , being the incorporation of Transylvania into Hungary . |
| 13 | With the outbreak of war the ILP put itself in opposition to the trade-union leaders by its refusal to support the war and by its criticism of those Labour Party members who either joined the government after 1916 or gave it their loyal parliamentary support . |
| 14 | A predominant or composite style ( an association of styles ) seems to orientate itself in respect to a group of mosaics , or to an abstract demand for these mosaics . |
| 15 | A final point to make here is that another effect of silent viewing of video is the interest it generates and the way this manifests itself in commitment to a point of view about a scene . |