Example sentences of "itself [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However discussion about ‘ discourse ’ is still highly theoretical and itself arguably a product of a Western intellectual tradition . |
| 2 | Enough to curve it right back on itself so an astronaut going in a straight line would land back where he started ? ’ |
| 3 | But it comprised , rather , a history of the West in which fascism was itself merely a symptom , and included not only the history of European imperialism but also the defeats of the European colonial powers by Japan in World War II , the subsequent French ( and American ) defeat in South-East Asia , the war in Algeria , as well as the many other colonial wars of national liberation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |
| 6 | The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) . |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This inherent resistance to change is exacerbated by the low priority accorded by our law schools to the teaching of comparative law and , in England , by an unwillingness to grapple with foreign languages , itself both a cause and a consequence of English becoming the new lingua franca . |
| 10 | t If so-called ‘ so-called poststructuralism ’ is the product of a single historical moment , then that moment is probably not May 1968 but rather the Algerian War of Independence — no doubt itself both a symptom and a product . |
| 11 | The unimpressive performance of most post-Ottoman Greek governments — itself partly a result of the general mistrust of the state — has made things no better . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This once serviced collieries and quarries south of the Frome-Radstock line , itself now the subject of a preservation project , the Somerset & Avon Railway . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It can be seen that continued administration of the remedy once the disease disturbance has been overcome will result in the presence of an energy pattern of the remedy itself i.e. a proving . |
| 16 | The network of family connections in Italy , though not in itself either a reason or motive for the policy which Napoleon III was to pursue in the peninsula , was nevertheless a help in that it did provide a useful information service and helped to create a feeling of sympathy for French policy . |