Example sentences of "to itself [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The current campaign positioning for Johnnie Walker Black has remained true to itself for the last two and a half decades .
2 For the first time since 1952 Bentley has an all-new shape to itself with the massive Continental R coupe .
3 Although Tivoli has the open systems distributed management market pretty much to itself at the moment , Moss knows that the provision of a pervasive technology standard to the industry can not generate a revenue stream much further into the future .
4 Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated .
5 But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board .
6 Barro is making the perfectly valid point that when the government incurs debt by issuing bonds it is acting as a mere go between on behalf of the private sector : the private sector is becoming more indebted to itself through the financial intermediation of the government .
7 Money in the drapes , and in the pottery that had a shelf to itself by the wide , dark wood staircase .
8 ‘ Stealin' Horses ’ pops out of nowhere and hangs in the air , a skeletal ballad from Griffin with the accompaniment of a ghostly piano which can be heard weeping softy to itself in the basement .
9 And the thing growled and howled to itself in the centre of its blind struggle .
10 There was no sound except for a pigeon burbling to itself in the road , pecking at horse-dung .
11 A threadbare rug covered the stone of the floor , and a human skull grinned to itself in the corner .
12 If you are a newcomer to the product , Symphony now provides a very good introduction to itself in the form of its online tutorial .
13 ‘ To heaven , of course , ’ said Dotty tartly , seizing an enormous wooden spoon and advancing upon an iron saucepan which had been rumbling and grumbling to itself throughout the conversation .
14 But finally a muddy old train trundles in from deepest Essex , chattering to itself like the Little Red Engine : ‘ I 'm a good little engine , I climbed over the hill . ’
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