Example sentences of "itself [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : |
| 2 | Consideration of that impact — more attention to issues of insight and inspiration , communication and commitment — can help to humanize considerations of strategic management while restoring to leadership study itself some of the flavour that Selznick ( 1957 ) sought ( largely in vain ) to instil 30 years ago . |
| 3 | Within the Federal Reserve Board itself some of the governors were known to favour a less restrictive policy , while most of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Bank presidents were believed to support high rates . |
| 4 | Seljalandsfoss is a ponytail of a waterfall throwing itself clear of the rim of its cliff to look like a 1950s American college girl shaking her head . |
| 5 | Thus , the observation that brief exposure to a flavour produces latent inhibition only at short retention intervals ( say 3–4 h ) whereas more prolonged exposure produces latent inhibition at intervals of 24 h or more is not in itself proof of the suggestion that different mechanisms underlie the two cases . |
| 6 | Some sonnets contain no pronouns at all ; others do not refer to the poet 's relationship with either party , But the absence of pronouns is not in itself proof of the absence of a relationship . |
| 7 | The Congress is virtually certain to declare itself independent of the Soviet Party . |
| 8 | President Mikhail Gorbachev on Jan. 11 went to the Soviet Baltic republic of Lithuania on a mission to seek solutions to a secessionist crisis created by the December 1989 decision of the Communist Party of Lithuania ( CPL ) to declare itself independent of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) [ see pp. 37128-29 ] . |
| 9 | It should be said , nevertheless , that powerful search techniques , across such large databases , will still only contribute effectively to your essay-writing or research if you maintain a clear sense of what you are looking for and why — a guiding principle which is itself independent of the technology . |
| 10 | This is more than triple the national average , itself one of the worst in the developed world . |
| 11 | But they pay an unexpected price , which is itself one of the underlying differences between old age in the past and in the present . |
| 12 | Itself one of the sights of the city , which ranks among the most attractive places on the Continent . |
| 13 | The reason why is summarised in my own ‘ Principle of inverse irreversibility ’ , a sub-paradigm of my ‘ Law of innate tendencies ’ , itself one of the laws that go to make up the all-encompassing ‘ Law of irrelevant correlates ’ , as explained in my work-in-progress , ‘ Irrelevant correlates ( and others ) ’ , which promises to be hailed on publication as the definitive analysis of systematised muddleheadedness . |
| 14 | Lack of information is another reason for the persistence of structural unemployment , being itself one of the causes of geographical and occupational immobility . |
| 15 | Many of their parents , on the other hand , saw the Unification Church as an institution that was itself one of the evils of the world and which had ensnared their sons and daughters , taking away their free will . |
| 16 | A taste of stalactite climbing at a more human level is provided by the sustained E1 5b of Arrampicatopitheque ( thankfully the climbing 's easier than the name ) to the left of Casamanche — itself one of the best 7bs . |
| 17 | This ‘ closed drawbridge ’ mentality from those who have safely gained access to the good life , or at least a better life , is itself one of the factors that is having a ‘ ghettoizing ’ effect on the underclass . |
| 18 | Some such cases are obvious , as when false is itself one of the booleans , but some are more subtle , as in unc where , in the lefthand process , one of the booleans in the inner IF is always false because of its context . |
| 19 | This continuous evaluation , which is in itself one of the cornerstones of any Total Quality System , is continuing by means for further routine seminars . |
| 20 | Since its inception in 1984 the Middlesbrough 10k Road Race and Fun Run has proved itself one of the premier events of its kind in the North-East . |
| 21 | As Meredith Tax says , ‘ Feminist and left-wing writing is talking to itself most of the time . ’ |