Example sentences of "in itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The astonishing bed has a fan-like bed-head and is like a building in itself with built-in spotlights , hi-fi , and telephone . |
| 2 | Firstly , the text is plural in itself with different sub-texts , and secondly , the reader brings to the text a plurality of texts . |
| 3 | But getting a job after years spent bringing up a family is n't necessarily an end in itself For many women , it 's all part of changing their lives and pointing them in the direction they want to go in-of being in charge of their own destiny . |
| 4 | The inadequacy of nurse training in the past to equip nurses for these pressures and the consequences of pressurised decision-making is a very good reason in itself for reforming nurse education . |
| 5 | The employers ' initiative had ‘ opened the door for a new and fruitful phase in the council 's activities ’ ; the unions must now decide ‘ whether to keep the door open , let it swing , or slam it shut ’ ; the employers ' action was ‘ momentous in itself for British industry ’ , it was ‘ nothing less than a confrontation ’ — the word had become indispensable for all of us , from French planners to Indonesian terrorists . |
| 6 | It is quite obviously a twentieth century excrescence , however good it may be in itself as such . |
| 7 | The same applies to fulfilling the goal , worthwhile in itself to many , of merely having men in space . |
| 8 | General Communication Inc , Anchorage , Alaska has now completed the sale of a 30% stake in itself to MCI Communications Corp for $13.3m . |
| 9 | This alternative viewpoint is useful in itself from three perspectives . |
| 10 | Because the water in itself er , I 'm sure that when you 're there it 's erm it 's a beautiful place to be , but the water in itself in this photograph has not got the best of light on it . |
| 11 | However , it is so much woven into the fabric of multimedia , we will not focus on interactivity in itself in this study but allow it to feature implicitly throughout our assessment of multimedia design , technology and application . |