Example sentences of "itself [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the degree that the Church follows his pointing and heeds his reminder , the Kingdom of God will manifest itself through the Church ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:77 ) . |
| 2 | Then a horny pit-lad 's hand , coal-dust under the fingernails , would insinuate itself through the hole , just wide enough for his big , warm , tender hand . |
| 3 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 4 | Crashing and echoing , the filing cabinet toppled end-over-end down the stairs as the thing heaved itself through the door aperture . |
| 5 | One of the puppies suddenly flung itself through the air and banged its wet nose against my right eye in its flight to a tray of vol-au-vent . |
| 6 | He then uses this analogy with the sentence to describe the trajectory by which the subject constitutes itself through the other . |
| 7 | Does it move effortlessly and gracefully , or seem to ‘ push ’ itself through the water in a series of jerks ? |
| 8 | Its one rolling , swollen eye was fixed on Cardiff even as the thing thrashed with blackened , elongated and monstrously deadly arms at the brickwork , trying to heave itself through the aperture and into the basement . |
| 9 | It may be that , over time , education can take a long term view of itself through the medium of the successful business . |
| 10 | ‘ Not his words only , but the image of his golden head burned itself through the scales on my eyes ! |
| 11 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 12 | The door of the room opened a little way and a large tabby cat insinuated itself through the gap . |
| 13 | In May 1937 street fighting had broken out in Barcelona and was used as an excuse for outlawing the " Trotskyist " POUM , not in fact Trotskyist but a breakaway from the Spanish Communist Party in close touch with the British ILP.6 By 1938 the Communist Party had so entrenched itself through the use of Soviet aid and advisers that it was able to force the resignation of Prime Minister Prieto and to improve its position in the Cabinet . |
| 14 | In their remarkable study , Stallybrass and White argue that ‘ the bourgeois subject continuously defined and re-defined itself through the exclusion of what it marked out as ‘ low' ’ — as dirty , repulsive , noisy , contaminating . |
| 15 | Understanding the advertising business inside out is vital , for it is they who must be aware of all the numerous restraints imposed , not only by the advertising industry itself through the Advertising Standards Authority and The Independent Television Companies Association ( ITCA ) , but also by the manufacturers of products in sensitive areas . |
| 16 | But the mind always expresses itself through the body , consciously or unconsciously , just as it does in humans . |
| 17 | The nuts themselves are not nuts at all but seeds , arranged rather like the segments of an orange in a whole fruit ( properly a capsule ) that is itself about the size of an orange . |
| 18 | They really should give give you a magazine article itself about the Tay Bridge . |
| 19 | But , in general , it would be for the third party surety to satisfy itself whether or not it should enter into the bond and to satisfy itself about the accuracy of representations made by the debtor . |
| 20 | Such a context might have presented itself during the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill . |
| 21 | Reimbursement of medical , hospital and treatment expenses while on holiday ( including emergency dental treatment ) and hotel and repatriation expenses to the British Isles necessarily incurred arising from injury sustained or sickness declaring itself during the period of the holiday ( including those of any one person required on medical advice to accompany the Insured Person ) . |
| 22 | Is the inescapable conclusion , therefore , that the régime finds itself between the devil and the deep blue sea ? |
| 23 | When they emerged from the café a wedge of blue sky had forced itself between the storm clouds and the sea . |
| 24 | ‘ Marxism ’ , on the other hand , Sartre claims , ‘ is History itself becoming conscious of itself ’ ( I , 40 ) : as for Lukács , it is by becoming conscious of itself as the subject of history that the working class will understand history 's meaning — and so recognize itself as the meaning of history . |
| 25 | alkali , calcium oxide as the base , calcium itself as the metal , calcium carbonate as the carbonate . |
| 26 | The blue , after a while , revealed itself as the dress of a woman walking behind an ox . |
| 27 | The straightforward , one-shilling manual , with its handsome woodcut of a cornucopia-like trug on the cover , rapidly established itself as the Dig for Victory bible . |
| 28 | It regards itself as the guardian of the water environment and has successfully prosecuted thirty polluters so far , with many cases still pending . |
| 29 | In the context of an employing organisation , this would imply that an individual 's major motivation would be not so much the job itself as the opportunity to mix with other people . |
| 30 | Golkar , presenting itself as the guarantor of stability and economic growth , was backed by the country 's 4,000,000 civil servants and by the business community , and also polled strongly in rural areas , especially in those regions which had benefited from government development programmes . |