Example sentences of "itself [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A half-mile away in the plantation director 's house a scratchy rendition of " Muskrat Ramble " played by Louis Armstrong and Kid Ory was struggling to make itself heard over the roar of the monsoon rains . |
| 2 | Accordingly , the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a government exists as the government of a state are : ( a ) whether it is the constitutional government of the state ; ( b ) the degree , nature and stability of administrative control , if any , that it of itself exercises over the territory of the state ; ( c ) whether Her Majesty 's Government has any dealings with it and if so what is the nature of those dealings ; and ( d ) in marginal cases , the extent of international recognition that it has as the government of the state . |
| 3 | These are broad descriptions of how the company wishes to see itself developing over the planning period . |
| 4 | For the next year or two Cromwell and his army were involved in the conquest of Scotland , and by May 1653 the Republic had more power to make itself obeyed over the whole of the British Isles than any monarch had ever had . |
| 5 | The purity movement was itself divided over the new proposals . |