Example sentences of "itself [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the empire was being gradually reduced to a fraction of its former size , the court gave itself over to pleasure and sensuality . |
| 2 | Councillor Rosie was appalled that the paper was American , outlining aspects of child abuse , what to look for , and how to confirm suspicions ; it was also nearly ten years old , written by an ‘ expert ’ who had been discredited in his own country , and certainly did n't signify that the council was keeping itself up to date on matters of such importance . |
| 3 | It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance . |
| 4 | ‘ a museum to the depression , failing to hype itself back to prosperity in the fashion of Glasgow and Newcastle … stuck in the past , in a timewarp of Beatlemania and class solidarity . ’ |
| 5 | Longing now to jump back on board , Mungo watched as the mighty engine woke from its doze and heaved itself back to wakefulness with huge , slow piston strokes . |
| 6 | They reject them as calumnies which are confuted by conscious experience , and adroitly overlook the faint indications through which the unconscious is apt to betray itself even to consciousness . |
| 7 | ‘ IBM is tying itself strongly to Unix , ’ said director of the new division Jean-Louis Descharreaux . |
| 8 | Ivory also lends itself readily to ornamentation . |
| 9 | Nature study is another subject which lends itself readily to drawing and painting . |
| 10 | The dairy-type conformation does not lend itself readily to beef production and though steers will fatten they grow rather slowly . |
| 11 | His logical mind lent itself superbly to maths and he began to excel in the subject . |
| 12 | Designed as a demonstration of bi-partite segregation between public and saloon , it lends itself poorly to unification , and the restorable public bar would have been lost in the process . |
| 13 | For any adult education movement which addresses itself seriously to education for social change , such alliances are of profound importance — as arenas within which really useful knowledge can be learned , as subjects for learning from , and as sites of practical intervention in the form of participatory research and independent analysis . |