Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 2 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 3 | In all this , remember that the phenotypic effects of a gene are the tools by which it levers itself into the next generation . |
| 4 | It promotes itself as the best candidate to advise the government on energy matters . |
| 5 | Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant . |
| 6 | He has always recognized the sweetness of an apple as a reason for choosing it , although a sinful one ; with the lapse of the standard which condemns it , it asserts itself as the only relevant consideration . |