Example sentences of "itself in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last hundred years the proletariat has schooled itself in the pretensions of the bourgeoisie ; while the bourgeoisie , less confident of its ascendancy , has become more sly and deceitful . |
| 2 | The discovery that he was still here , that his heart had found time , in that sinister cell he inhabited , to entrench itself in the obsessions of his lifetime , and that he believed himself to be in contact with the ghost of the dead king , were complications Huy could have done without . |
| 3 | As the present government , despite its ‘ hands off , free market ’ attitudes , is involving itself in the workings of the pub trade , then it must shoulder the responsibility for the present state of affairs and insist that arbitration on rents must be genuinely independent and not loaded in favour of the brewers . |
| 4 | Given that a prime reason for investing in science is to boost the nation 's technological performance , where was the discussion about the implications of the government 's plans to privatise the British Technology Group , the descendant of a body set up by Labour itself in the mid-1960s to perform precisely this task ? |
| 5 | It disguises itself in the trappings of its rival ’ ( p. 1 13 ) . |
| 6 | It peoples itself in the sunbeams . |
| 7 | Charles and his brother James also attacked the charter itself in the courts . |
| 8 | The contradiction shows itself in the phenomena of underconsumption and in periodic crises ; and it provides the main ground for Marx 's expectation of an eventual breakdown of the capitalist system . |
| 9 | The philanthropist Helen Bosanquet drew eagerly on the work of the French sociologist Frederick Le Play to argue that the ‘ stable family ’ with its male breadwinner was ‘ the only known way of ensuring with any approach to success , that one generation will exert itself in the interests and for the sake of another ’ . |
| 10 | The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk . |
| 11 | Even though there was a silencer on the gun , the detonation and the whack of the bullet burying itself in the floorboards were unmistakable . |
| 12 | He had seen the CNAA establish itself in the eyes of many — though employers in the more conventional industries had been slow to recognize the public sector and adapt their recruitment policies . |
| 13 | The coalition wants Congress to involve itself in the details of the agreement , as a means of ensuring adequate environmental and health guarantees . |
| 14 | As things stand , it is probably only a matter of time before the site finds itself in the hands of property speculators , a sad fate for what was one of the largest mills on the Painswick Stream . |
| 15 | This moving image manifests itself in the motions of the heavenly bodies . |
| 16 | Such a figure tends to replicate itself in the relationships and practices in which children engage in later life . |
| 17 | History sold itself in the schools of interwar Britain . |