Example sentences of "itself out " in BNC.

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1 Should this occur , a team which is relaxing may find itself out of earshot when their name is called .
2 This was as well ; for from 1980 , the BR Property Board began charging Travellers-Fare a percentage of turnover , as rental ; and if another retailer , caterer or not , could offer a better return , Travellers-Fare might find itself out .
3 The ballet works itself out consistently as a design , reproducing in the subtlest way the design of the music in the matter of subject , repetitions , balancings , treatment of episodes and so on .
4 Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about .
5 Below a given voltage , the compressor in a refrigerator burns itself out .
6 Berger 's writing is wonderfully clear : once the book is opened it just reads itself out .
7 Williams declined to comment but Triplex ruled itself out .
8 I look as if I 've made an about-turn but in terms of simple logistics it 's getting itself out of all proportion . ’
9 That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be .
10 But the day had insisted on playing itself out in the idyllic pastoral mode .
11 Next morning dawns bright and clear ; the storm has blown itself out in the night .
12 Analysts do not expect any move for Ferranti until the radar contract is awarded , though one possible bidder — British Aerospace — has already ruled itself out .
13 Analysts do not expect any move for Ferranti until the radar contract is awarded , though one possible bidder — British Aerospace — has already ruled itself out .
14 Just such an episode has been playing itself out on the American financial stage .
15 Only the National Assembly has the power to amend the constitution or vote itself out of office — an unlikely prospect given that only 50 or so assemblymen have accepted the government 's offer of a $175,000 tax-free retirement pension .
16 When everything had seemed to be sorting itself out , when the way ahead seemed , for the first time in ages , to be solid under her feet , Marie felt the path crumbling away in front of her .
17 The jukebox ran itself out but we had a good , old knees-up .
18 The record ran itself out and they flopped down gasping and panting like an obscene phone call .
19 If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world .
20 The great storm of Irangate , as Le Monde lamented , had blown itself out ; there remained nothing but ‘ a draught or two , like memories , blowing from time to time across the praetorium . ’
21 The hurricane would never blow itself out ; and at its eye was a figure already taking on the lineaments of a familiar enough twentieth-century ‘ type ’ , the male-dominated , passion-ridden female so well-known to the readers of the novels of Barbara Cartland .
22 In a radio broadcast earlier this week , Mr Shevardnadze echoed the public mood in most areas of the country expressing optimism that Georgia was now starting to pull itself out of political and economic crisis .
23 On Recommendations 6 and 18 , the Eastern District found itself out of step with National WEA policy .
24 Consider a rebel stretch of human DNA that is capable of snipping itself out of its chromosome , floating freely in the cell , perhaps multiplying itself up into many copies , and then splicing itself into another chromosome .
25 Officialdom , rightly , puts itself out finding representatives for and of women , ethnic minorities and disabled groups .
26 He lay for a long time , listening to the storm as it blew itself out .
27 At that moment a slim figure flung itself out of the shadows to tumble Lefevre 's giant adversary from his feet .
28 The North of England has the capacity to pull itself out of such a mire , and surely wants the chance to exert its muscle to do so .
29 They hope that it will sort itself out with time — it is even more difficult to ask a second time .
30 To get itself out of its self-dug hole , the Department of the Environment claimed that the 1981 study 's improved methodology simply showed that the 1971 and 1976 surveys had underestimated unfitness and disrepair .
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