Example sentences of "make itself " in BNC.

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1 Apple has made itself unpopular by suing Digital Research , MicroSoft and Hewlett-Packard to protect the ‘ look and feel ’ of the Apple Macintosh graphical user interface .
2 By waiting so long , it has made itself vulnerable to a systemic collapse .
3 The episode casts interesting light on the ‘ Hitler myth ’ at this juncture , where the Party had made itself unpopular as never before .
4 Although watches were extremely rare before the late seventeenth century , the influence of mechanical timekeeping had already made itself felt in a variety of ways , besides those already mentioned .
5 Sadler began by reminding readers that throughout the nineteenth century the ‘ authority of the state ’ had gradually made itself felt in relation to education , resulting in the 1870 Act .
6 I understand that Today 's Horse may not have made itself very popular .
7 Former Puma star , Marcelo Loffreda , thinks that ‘ Our rugby as a whole has deteriorated due to the way it has been managed by our officials and this crisis has made itself felt in the Pumas in the last two years .
8 There must be very many such incidents in which his influence has made itself felt in the West Riding ; and many staff and children who , without knowing it , have cause to be grateful for his work for them .
9 The radical unpredictability of individual events in quantum theory has made itself felt .
10 Perhaps the changes to Illustrator are best summed up by stating that the program has simultaneously made itself more accessible to the average user and significantly more useful to the professional .
11 It was on this basis of this rationality , embodied in modern science and technology , that cette vielle Europe had triumphed throughout the world , had made itself the universal point of reference .
12 In the library where Ianthe worked the approach of Christmas had made itself felt , though it would be too much to say that any particularly Christmas spirit or noticeable increase of goodwill could be discerned , even though Shirley had hung up a few coloured paper chains .
13 On completion of all sales , Treuhandanstalt will have effectively have made itself redundant , optimistically by the end of 1993 .
14 Then the goat had made itself evident in the warm air .
15 Therefore it had made itself a ladder .
16 There was a pause , as if Eochaid 's presence had made itself felt , and the impending arrival of Morgund .
17 As D.K. Fieldhouse ( 1986 ) remarks in his critique of the concept , the term multinational corporation was first coined by David Lilienthal , the head of the great US public utility the Tennessee Valley Authority , in 1960 , long after its reality had made itself felt .
18 The characteristic attitude in large-scale economic management , both inside government and in the private sector , which has made itself increasingly felt during the post-war period , is the pursuit of intellectual coherence .
19 The decision to sell Little Lea more or less made itself .
20 THE provisonal government of Romania made itself very much less provisional yesterday by decreeing significant constitutional changes , including the fact that the country is no longer a socialist republic .
21 Miss Bruce 's distaste for innovation made itself manifest in the dreary proposals served up to the Conservative and Labour governments in the seventies — whenever a request for names for public duties arrived in her in-tray , the same roll-call of has-beens fell out of her out-tray .
22 Yet it was in the rank and file , those men known only in their own chapel and town , that Nonconformity made itself felt in English religious life .
23 The seven communities that made up the population of Møn in those days ranged round one or other of the churches and each community made itself known to the others in a common language of bells .
24 The tiff between John and Edward still made itself felt .
25 Even in painting the time factor made itself felt .
26 One of these possibilities made itself known to J. some time that spring .
27 But as the fear of invasion receded and the public outrage at the scandals of the Arandora Star and the Dunera made itself known , refugees moved up in the War Office estimation .
28 As technology made itself available to people like me , it was very natural to try and use it .
29 The night was cool and a chill breeze made itself felt .
30 A different noise made itself heard , and there among the circling gulls , high up , a fighter plane among the domestic craft , tore a peregrine falcon .
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