Example sentences of "express itself [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in the past such external supports of the superego might have been strong enough to compensate at least in part for faulty superego development as a result of difficulties at the phallic-Oedipal stage and might have contributed to the unresolved Oedipal conflict expressing itself as a typical hysteria or obsessional neurosis , today , because such supports are in large part lacking , the outcome is not likely to be the same . |
| 2 | St William 's has presented itself as a prime mover and so it falls to St William 's to work out how to express itself as a managing agent . |
| 3 | There 's a strange , almost forced intimacy that can be a burden when it 's so much harder to surprise that same audience and , in Katell 's case , it seems to express itself in a cheery whimsy that masks insecurity . |
| 4 | This behavioural plasticity and mental agility , optimized as always in the young , began sooner or later to express itself in a new mode of subsistence , namely , hunting . |
| 5 | In Chapter 3 it was argued that pre-colonial society was indeed authoritarian , and that this expressed itself in a great stress on the conformity of the individual , and on a hierarchy of relationships between young and old , between chiefs and people and between men and women . |
| 6 | We have to confess that Evangelicalism has sometimes , perhaps even often , expressed itself in a hard , legalistic framework leading to a dull and often joyless form of Christianity . |
| 7 | The zeitgeist expressed itself in a lively concern for the Christian faith and its implications for a modus vivendi . |
| 8 | The labourers were drawn into a pattern of early marriages , large families and demoralisation which expressed itself in a growing surliness and a readiness to explode into violent , but contained , protest . |
| 9 | If the pub as an institution expresses itself in a rich variety of ways , the same is true of the physical forms it takes . |