Example sentences of "itself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prostaglandins also set off or cut down or stop specific enzyme reactions within the cells , thus allowing the body to react to the environmental stresses and insults and so keep itself intact . |
| 2 | Moreover , it is not clear that either party could agree to a change and still hold itself intact . |
| 3 | The demand of an ever more literate population for books , pamphlets and magazines on parenthood is met by a stream of material which surpasses itself each year , not only in volume , but in the seductive , indeed sumptuous , way in which it is produced . |
| 4 | But in Biomorph Land itself each occupied its own unique position , determined by its genetic formula , surrounded by its own particular neighbours . |
| 5 | An even multiple ( including zero ) means that the pump is itself resonant , and this double resonance lies behind optical bistability and the sideband instabilities analysed by Lugiato and co-workers . |
| 6 | Although in itself durable , polythene sheet could hardly be regarded as pleasing in the long term , except where it has been colour printed on commercial kites . |
| 7 | This categorical indeterminacy is what many groups felt renders the story itself indeterminate . |
| 8 | After waiting two years on the back-burner for Batmania to boil itself dry Clean and Sober is finally getting a UK release , allowing Michael Keaton to do his twitching and snorting coke fiend routine without risk of dirtying the caped crusader 's pristine image . |
| 9 | I have not seen this wretched dog , only heard the clinking of its collar tag as it shakes itself dry after a midnight dip in the goldfish pond . |
| 10 | You just put it in the pan with water and let it boil itself dry . |
| 11 | The Inspector followed him in , quietly turning off the kettle which had been busy boiling itself dry . |
| 12 | By 1973 , the overseas offices accounted for more than half of the fee income , but the firm found itself poorly represented in the USA with only two of its nine branches established there . |
| 13 | Whereas in European antiquity the days of the week were regarded as being under the influence of the principal heavenly bodies — Saturn-day , Sun-day , Moon-day , and so on — for the Maya each day was itself divine . |
| 14 | At the time of the Restoration itself Anglican-Royalist sentiment was strong not only amongst the gentry but also amongst the population at large , whilst there was a marked reaction against the Whigs and in favour of the Tories following the defeat of the Parliamentary Exclusion movement . |
| 15 | The counter-move to such complaints is to say that the concept of lucidity is itself repressive , and that unravelling Derrida 's meanings is itself a deconstructive act , directed against hegemonic ideological positions . |
| 16 | Secondly , conspiring or attempting to commit or inciting , aiding , abetting , counselling , or procuring the commission of any arrestable offence is in itself arrestable . |
| 17 | Lydia thought herself very slow not to have realised all this before , but then she reflected that the rapidity with which they had learned the circumstances of this secluded family was in itself strange . |
| 18 | You may throw cells together at random , over and over again for a billion years , and not once will you get a conglomeration that flies or swims or burrows or runs , or does anything , even badly , that could remotely be construed as working to keep itself alive . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal considered whether an adjudicator 's decision in a construction contract ( see 6.8.5 ) was enforceable as an arbitration award , and decided that it was not , but their judgment was based on the interim nature of the adjudicator 's decision pending arbitration to which the decision would be subject , and not on any of the usual characteristics of experts ' decisions : the interim nature of adjudicators ' decisions is itself untypical of experts ' decisions . |
| 20 | Legal language is itself technical and often disputed ; while legal philosophers have , and continue to debate , the nature of law itself . |
| 21 | Each suspected the other ( each suspected ) of personal , biographical reasons for arguing the case that each , by and large , argued : and the difference between them was in itself odd , as in the great graph of time and place their paths had oddly crossed and oddly coincided . |
| 22 | Not only is Windows itself configurable , but most of the applications that we use under Windows can also be tailored to your own tastes . |
| 23 | After the British general election of 1987 the Alliance would no doubt have been gratified to find itself under-represented to a degree no greater than that . |
| 24 | The officers in the merchant bank , who know of the proposed take-over , and whose knowledge is itself unpublished price sensitive information , may deal , or counsel , or procure others to deal , provided it is done to facilitate the completion or carrying out of the transaction , that is , the bid . |
| 25 | Chamerovzow 's succession to the long-serving John Scoble , particularly detested by critics of the BFASS , was itself conducive to aspirations for better relations , hopes which Chamerovzow built on by undertaking as editor of the Anti-Slavery Reporter to report abolitionist efforts in Britain and America whoever undertook them . |
| 26 | But that 's precisely the problem because erm the definition which I would give to it is necessarily a definition which would preclude er regarding Mao 's party as a Marxist party but then other people would say that my definition was er itself controversial . |
| 27 | That direct investment is itself controversial . |
| 28 | The nature of the problem is itself controversial , despite the voluminous work done . |
| 29 | His position was itself controversial since he argued that former Stasi members should be integrated into the police force and the Interior Ministry to avoid their becoming a potential terrorist threat . |
| 30 | The situation is further confused when some but not all the operator information support is itself computer-based . |