Example sentences of "itself [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , since the increase in income has slowed down , induced investment will actually fall and it will not be long before this causes income itself to fall via the multiplier . |
| 2 | Fifteen Para , which has its headquarters in my constituency , was being marched to oblivion until public opinion brought itself to bear on the Ministry , and I am grateful that it has taken a step backwards , but we still do not know what size that step is . |
| 3 | And this is where we 've decided that what we really need is young engineers , in other words er , people who have just entered the profession itself to talk to the school children . |
| 4 | Films screened in public cinemas are subject to the test of obscenity , although the film industry , in order to obtain additional insurance against prosecution , has voluntarily bound itself to comply with the censorship requirements of the British Board of Film Classification , a private body established and funded by the industry itself . |
| 5 | She watched dispassionately , concealing a faintly malevolent smile , as her father 's inflexible knee forced itself to bend before the wrong prince of Wales . |
| 6 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 7 | It would then be the responsibility of the institution itself to decide upon the detailed allocation of resources within the programme . |
| 8 | Increasingly candidates thought able enough were entered for O and even A levels ( and rightly , because there was at first no other examination for them to take ) and when the CSE examination was introduced for those thought not to be up to O level , the top grade of CSE was soon deemed to count as an O level , and thus itself to aspire to the academic . |
| 9 | If the Byzantine Empire would ever bring itself to unite with the Empire of the West . |
| 10 | By early January 1945 , observers in the Stuttgart area were pointing out that Mein Kampf was being — rather belatedly — cited to prove that Germany had itself to blame for the war , that Hitler 's expansionist aims which he had laid down twenty years earlier were the cause of the war , and that it was therefore clear that ‘ the Führer has worked for war from the very beginning ’ . |
| 11 | If a society lets any considerable number of its members grow up mere children , incapable of being acted on by rational consideration of distant motives , society has itself to blame for the consequences . |
| 12 | Although the " offices " might be peripatetic , going outside Rome with the pope , and although the pope might still play a dominant personal part , only a total reversal of policy — an annihilation of the authority the papacy had set itself to achieve during the previous 150 years — could have stemmed the march towards authority and central administrative offices . |