Example sentences of "itself [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also stated in terms that can not be misunderstood that science is after all a human activity , dependent on human imagination to produce its hypotheses , absolutely incapable of describing the world absolutely , but setting itself merely the obligation of bouncing its ideas against reality . |
| 2 | Indeed we may speak of a ‘ new culture ’ created by modern communications , which affects everyone , particularly the younger generation , and is itself largely the result of technological advances which have created ‘ new ways of communicating , with new languages , new techniques and a new psychology ’ ( cf. |
| 3 | Although the popularity of the war economy lay at the root of the growth of socialism during the First World War , liberal internationalism was quick to reassert itself once the war was over . |
| 4 | A related point requiring emphasis is that much of what one is inclined to regard as the mere ‘ facts of the case ’ are often ‘ institutional ’ facts our recognition of which is itself partly the adoption of an attitude . |
| 5 | This once serviced collieries and quarries south of the Frome-Radstock line , itself now the subject of a preservation project , the Somerset & Avon Railway . |
| 6 | If we apply the equation simply to the electron by itself then the act of the microscope in determining the electron 's position has to be represented in a deus ex machina way as an external intervention bringing about the discontinuous collapse of the wavepacket . |