Example sentences of "itself in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In war , more common as the Dukes of Normandy used their English kingship to press their rather doubtful claims to the French throne , Sussex found itself in the front line , convenient both for intended invasions and retaliatory expeditions by licensed French pirates . |
| 2 | She looked a little worn and bleary-eyed , though her long , lion-coloured hair shone like health itself in the brassy sunlight of mid-day . |
| 3 | In their first underground leaflet , the Women 's Higher Council stated the following : ’ To our great masses of women , to the steadfast mothers , sisters , to our women heroines behind the iron bars of the zionist jails and in the revolutionary camps — to women workers , peasants , students — You had a central , important and distinguished role in the great Intifada — had part in its continuity , escalation and in sparking its flame ; this role has expressed itself in the wide participation of women in all fields of daily confrontation and resistance since the Uprisings first day . |
| 4 | The main thesis of the existentialist approach is that in order to elucidate the full significance of ontological claims conveyed by existential propositions we ought to begin by focusing attention upon the one for whom the " problem of existence " presents itself in the first instance as a problem of his own existence . |
| 5 | It is pleasant to see the same easy charm , quiet confidence and obliging manner re-establish itself in the new generation of ownership . |
| 6 | One spell had indeed leapt from the crackling pages and lodged itself in the dark recesses of his brain . |
| 7 | A kind of Hispanicism Triumphant proclaims itself in the high-key paintings Rafael Ferrer makes of the landscapes and locals of his native Puerto Rico . |
| 8 | All this can manifest itself in the simple relief of getting back to civilization , supermarket queues and all . |
| 9 | A final essential advantage for the party manifested itself in the general election campaign , when Attlee , for so long the ‘ unknown Opposition Leader ’ , came to notice as a sober and responsible figure apparently capable of assuming the reins of government . |
| 10 | It would seem that imagination rightly directed enables the extension of meaning which is involved in the Incarnation ; but as the Incarnation points beyond itself in the risen and ascended Christ , so imaginative knowledge of God is transcended by a more purely spiritual experience . |
| 11 | In America Dr James Tyler Kent was appalled by such modifications , feeling that many of the practices which Hahnemann had campaigned against had crept into the practice of homoeopathy itself in the one hundred or so years since its rediscovery . |
| 12 | A sport 's first concern , Pascoe says , should be its own development and that means presenting itself in the best possible way . |
| 13 | , well we have got complex numbers , but we ca n't have B itself in the complex number , right , so B square must be nine , so either B is plus three or B is minus three , one or the two |
| 14 | Who then , was to determine whether or not the water came from faults and fissures in the rock , or from the vein itself in the usual manner ? |
| 15 | This amalgam of experience will embody itself in the final shape and fitting of a lifeboat that is designed to take the RNLI into the 21st century . |
| 16 | The conflict between the courts and trade unions showed itself in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth as an expression of class conflict . |
| 17 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 18 | It ricocheted off a bulkhead , impossibly loud in the confined space , and buried itself in the fleshy part of Terhune 's thigh . |
| 19 | Will history repeat itself in the 1990s ? |
| 20 | Computervision Corp so wants to put its sad ownership by Prime Computer Inc behind it that it is remaking itself in the pure computer-aided design software image of the company Prime acquired as quickly as it can . |
| 21 | Ruling groups have found that their interests are best safeguarded if they are supported by a work force which can not think for itself in the coherent way writing affords . |
| 22 | The Profumo affair was merely the focus and catalyst for the coming to a head of that revolution in the mood and character of English life which had begun to show itself in the late summer of 1955 . |
| 23 | By the time the British railway system stabilised itself in the late 1860s , every foot of rail between the Scottish border , the Pennine hills , the sea and the River Humber was controlled by the North-eastern Railway . |
| 24 | Occasionally the fungus can ensconce itself in the terminal portion of the urethra , and it may then give rise to symptoms similar to those found in non-specific urethritis . |
| 25 | The programmes on the computers , also accessible to visitors to Pompeii itself in the small museum at Boscoreale , are the culmination of what is known as the Neapolis project . |
| 26 | It manifested itself in the small hours at such an advanced stage that no cure save amputation of the head could bring relief . |
| 27 | Precisely because the Church mistakes herself for the present form of the Kingdom , God 's rule has often had to manifest itself in the secular world outside , and frequently against , the Church ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:78 ) . |
| 28 | With the best will in the world a bassoon can not begin to express itself in the same terms as a viola da gamba and when two of the three melodic parts are conceived for strings a precious dimension is lost by substituting woodwind . |
| 29 | But since , against the odds , Alice keeps her cellar as ‘ the perfection of cleanliness ’ , the image is pleasing and does not impose itself in the same way on the reader 's imagination . |
| 30 | To my personal embarrassment to the extent that I was a party to the majority of the decisions to which I have referred , I have to say that I think that this court again finds itself in the same position . |