Example sentences of "[to-vb] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply put , 88open either has to reinvent itself or hang it up . |
| 2 | Fears that Windows NT will knock the stuffing out of a fragmented Unix industry have galvanized Unix International to reinvent itself . |
| 3 | MORAL panic is one of the more enduring items on the domestic cultural menu and in a month of fatal stabbings , horrific child murder and economic gloom , society seems once again all too willing to frighten itself to death . |
| 4 | A firm which is an independent adviser must take all reasonable steps to inform itself , and all others acting on its behalf fully about what packaged products are available on the market and : |
| 5 | A firm which is a tied firm must take all reasonable steps to inform itself and others acting on its behalf fully about what packaged products are available from the marketing group to which it belongs , and must not proceed with a packaged product for a private customer if it is aware of another packaged product from the marketing group 's product range which would meet the customer 's requirements better . |
| 6 | Contemporary science is able to designate itself , through its revolutionary discoveries , as a liquidation of a past . |
| 7 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China . |
| 8 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution ; it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China ( ROC ) . |
| 9 | Within these narrow lanes , no luxury compels such poverty to know itself . |
| 10 | Alas , poor country , almost afraid to know itself . ’ |
| 11 | This is a result of that historical process by which , through new media such as printing , material goods have been created with cumulative effect ; as a result of this powerful force for cultural production , the present generation has inherited a vast accretative mass of products in terms of which it is expected to know itself . |
| 12 | It is this structuralist mode , through which the particularities of the object world at a given time may help generate the objectifications by which a set of social relationships comes to know itself through an array of everyday taxonomies which makes Bourdieu 's work such an advance on previous analyses of consumption . |
| 13 | Most City analysts do not expect to see a dividend paid before 1992 and the less optimistic believe Lowndes will have to refinance itself again next year . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's a manager , your dad , is n't he ? ’ asked Jamie Shepherd a few minutes later as they bounced round a corner with the old van rattling as if it was going to shake itself to bits at any moment . |
| 15 | He could feel the vibrations in his bones ; juddering the cradle he was strapped into , making him think for a moment that the tiny vehicle was going to shake itself to pieces . |
| 16 | The root of the problem lay in the fact that , having cut its links with the United States , Cuba ‘ was forced to graft itself onto a bloc which , apart from being totally different , was already afflicted with its own specific illnesses . |
| 17 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 18 | An opportunity for some of this pressure to vent itself was provided in the early sixties . |
| 19 | Others — and the majority , no doubt — would wait anxiously for any news as a French invasion force was massing ready to launch itself against English shores . |
| 20 | Pinnacle , which currently offers a Sparc 2 CPU board , will leverage its experience in the Sun spares , repair and trade-in hardware business — combined with the SunSoft deal — to launch itself in to the compatible market proper , backed by a hefty advertisement campaign . |
| 21 | Lightning flashed again as the monstrous shape outside seemed to launch itself head first and downwards in a mad and frenzied lunge at the aperture . |
| 22 | Even in rivers less polluted , when some living organisms could survive , the water failed to purify itself . |
| 23 | At an extraordinary congress on Mar. 2-3 , 1990 , the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement ( ROH ) voted to disband itself and founded a new confederation . |
| 24 | Charter 77 , the human rights organization which played a prominent role as a focus for anti-communist dissent in the 1980s , decided to disband itself on Nov. 3 since it had " completed its historical role " . |
| 25 | To that extent , the EC does not seem to have accepted the ramifications of the post-communist years and has not decided whether it wants to consolidate itself as a rich man 's club at the western end of the continent of Europe , to which the east Europeans can apply for associate membership , or to widen its institutions , starting with freer trade . |
| 26 | In time , academic anthropology became less directly associated with evolutionary ideas , and it tried to establish itself as a respectable , if not conservative , branch of the social sciences . |
| 27 | It is a lot for a young charity still to establish itself . |
| 28 | LM That will happen in any small country trying to establish itself or struggling to survive . |
| 29 | One of the first kennels to establish itself as a consistent winner in the show ring was the Tankerville Kennel . |
| 30 | Other theories on the origin or evolution of syphilis and the other diseases caused by similar organisms suggest that different populations have their own endemic treponemal disease , be it yaws , pinta , or syphilis , the presence of which makes it hard for one of the others to establish itself . |