Example sentences of "itself to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree that where we 're living at the moment does n't exactly lend itself to being a family home . |
| 2 | It formed the Bund and committed itself to a critical modus vivendi with the state by declaring itself to be a ‘ church within socialism ’ . |
| 3 | But it does , by this convention , proclaim itself to be a book of a special kind , one designed to proclaim what the faithful believe about Christ , not necessarily a book which is straight narrative history in the modern mode . |
| 4 | The Christian community lived in perpetual proximity , even intimacy , with the larger community of which it felt itself to be a part . |
| 5 | Nonconformity no longer felt itself to be a gathered community of dissenters but part and parcel of the English Christian Church and for better or worse the architectural tradition of that Church and nation was Gothic . |
| 6 | Spalding concludes that , with few exceptions , such as the tin miners in Bolivia , labour has been coopted by these mechanisms and not proved itself to be a revolutionary force . |
| 7 | In short , ‘ marriage ’ with England was showing itself to be a severely limiting factor when other courtships were envisaged . |
| 8 | By the time we arrive on tip-toe to the spot , whatever it was has either gone or revealed itself to be a log . |
| 9 | A final point : the assimilation of modal legacy to trust implies that the trust had shown itself to be a more useful , perhaps more flexible legal institution . |
| 10 | Any company or firm that believes itself to be a victim of behaviour by its competitors which infringes EC competition rules can make a complaint to DG IV against the parties concerned . |
| 11 | Knowing that some foreigners , and even some Germans , would worry about a possible reversion to past behaviour , it has been at pains to show itself to be a reformed character not just by these qualities of good citizenship but by its guilty conscience . |
| 12 | Apart from the area around Manchester , ill other regions were experiencing a steep decline in membership by 1935 , and anti-semitism now showed itself to be a viable propaganda vehicle in a particular locality ; from then on it was given special prominence . |
| 13 | In it , the feral mink often finds itself to be a close neighbour to vulnerable domestic stock . |
| 14 | In fact , if inspected more closely , it shows itself to be a rickety structure of ad hoc contrivance and ill-founded reductivist moves . |
| 15 | On closer inspection the bundle of rags rose and revealed itself to be a woman , filthy dirty , her skin so grimy she was almost invisible in the gloom . |
| 16 | Rose gave a tiny stifled scream and the third person in the bay window proved itself to be a young man by throwing back his head and shouting with laughter . |
| 17 | In a rare if not unique development in Africa , President Mathieu Kerekou , who had wielded power since a coup in 1972 , agreed to abide by decisions taken by the " National Conference of Active Forces of the Nation " , which in a bold move on Feb. 25 had proclaimed itself to be a sovereign body and its decisions to be " mandatory " . |
| 18 | It also has certain opportunities , for example the University has already shown itself to be a leading research centre . |
| 19 | It had a tarnished brass knocker showing a pixie cobbling shoes and declaring itself to be a present from Cornwall . |
| 20 | Carrickfergus has already proved itself to be a popular commuter town with a population of over 32,500 . |
| 21 | As will gradually become evident , the AEC has proven itself to be an unambiguous success . |
| 22 | January 1992 : Following an agreement signed with City & Guilds of London Institute , HCIMA was itself to be an awarding body for National Vocational Qualifications ( NVQs ) . |
| 23 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 24 | ICL now reckons itself to be the second largest supplier in the UK , John Bennett , ICL 's Director of Marketing Support and Communications told the audience at a recent briefing . |
| 25 | The regime declares itself to be the only true guardian of socialism , but can offer no answer to what is happening elsewhere except to denounce foreign interference and to assert that communism must inevitably triumph . |
| 26 | In a striking phrase , Enzensberger suggests that ‘ artistic productivity reveals itself to be the extreme marginal case of a much more widespread productivity ’ ( ibid : 46 ) . |
| 27 | And a sizeable inn which , with antique lettering , proclaimed itself to be the Hôtel Dejean . |
| 28 | The airport was to be built over the sea , partly on piles and partly on reclaimed land off Taipa Island , which was itself to be the subject of major development . |
| 29 | And landlords and people of substance , who might normally offer charitable relief of their own , would certainly guard their purses as long as the government declared itself to be the great provider . |
| 30 | A declaration that someone was acting as a " quasi-arbitrator " would be likely itself to be the subject of a future application to the court as to what the declaration meant … |