Example sentences of "prided itself on " in BNC.
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| 1 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 2 | I imagine it might be said that it was too insistent on formal academic instruction , that it took things like examinations very seriously and prided itself on its academic record ; yet in fact the education it gave was surprisingly wide and varied … |
| 3 | In July 1868 — barely a year after leaving Blomfield 's office — his first novel , ‘ The poor man and the lady ’ , was submitted to Macmillan , a firm which prided itself on the quality of its fiction list . |
| 4 | The RCM prided itself on a broad-minded approach to religion This suited the collective temperament of the ruling body , which was drawn largely from the liberal branch of Judaism , and made sense in terms of practical politics . |
| 5 | The club that once prided itself on having so few injuries they could field the same team week in week out now has so many invalids they are lucky to have the same side two games running . |
| 6 | Whereas in the 19th century each political faction prided itself on having its own newspaper , the steady decline in titles narrowed the available range and , inevitably , displaced political considerations as proprietorial and editorial attention turned to questions of commercial survival . |
| 7 | Secondly , the firm prided itself on speed and efficiency , both as a profitable practice in itself , and as a means of building up a reputation with estate agents . |
| 8 | In contrast , in the NHS we now face reduced access to care in a system that once prided itself on its aim of universal accessibility . |
| 9 | The division , which prided itself on its knowledge of the oil companies and the oil world , believed ( as it subsequently proved , with some justification ) that we were paying more for our naphtha than we strictly needed to do . |
| 10 | The state monopoly of television in a country that prided itself on its tradition of freedom and pluralism of the means of expression — failed . |
| 11 | In addition the Senior Common Room prided itself on its Extraordinary Members , opening its doors to leading figures in the arts and industry , and in this way created the atmosphere , less of an educational institution than of one of London 's most interesting private clubs . |
| 12 | According to the rules then extant , a national strike could only be called by the NUM if it had the support of at least 55 per cent of the members voting in a secret ballot : the union prided itself on its democracy in this context . |
| 13 | Punk prided itself on making recordings with all the rough edges showing . |
| 14 | The ’ safety-deposit planet ’ , as it was called , prided itself on being the most secure place in the galaxy — and also one of the most law-abiding . |
| 15 | Prominent amongst these was the Eye-Witness , an erratic , often brilliant weekly , which prided itself on exposing corruption in high places and advocating a wider distribution of property based on broadly Christian principles , or distributism . |