Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norway 's prospects of joining the EC might be harmed by its decision , if the EC were successful in demanding a seat for itself on the IWC . |
| 2 | In case we become aware of its tricks , the Ego tries to throw us off the scent , by projecting aspects of itself onto the outside world . |
| 3 | Mulvey combined this Freudian explanation of pleasure in looking with the theory of the mirror stage in the work of Jacques Lacan , in which the child 's first recognition of itself in the mirror is called a misrecognition , because what the child sees in the mirror is an idealised whole and rounded image at odds with the child 's diffuse bodily experience of itself at that stage in development — it can not yet control its movements , let alone its environment . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the mere fact that money is paid under protest will not give rise of itself to the inference of such an agreement ; though it may form part of the evidence from which it may be inferred that the payee did not intend to close the transaction : see Maskell v. Horner [ 1915 ] 3 K.B . |
| 5 | Keeping her voice steady was a battle in itself as the touch of his hard , powerful body against her own was sending her breathing awry . |
| 6 | All four of the Titford brothers of this generation were in their early twenties on their wedding day — a reflection in itself of the fact that the average age at marriage for men was falling as the century wore on ; that average in the early 1700s had been as high as twenty-seven . |
| 7 | The firm badly needs this market share to buy time , so it can fully adapt to the new Windows world and carve out a place for itself in the growing groupware market . |
| 8 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
| 9 | This applies whether or not accountants ' work is investment business in itself under the FSA . |
| 10 | Money in the drapes , and in the pottery that had a shelf to itself by the wide , dark wood staircase . |
| 11 | The management at Perry Poultry might not have amassed this sort of paper wealth yet but , only founded in 1989 , the company is already making a name for itself in the food business . |
| 12 | The apex ( tip ) of the shoot continues growth by mobilising food and water towards itself from the older tissues behind . |
| 13 | She began , Dear Sis , Tell Joel that it 's quite an education in itself for the girls to be brought up in the heart of the capital , and on the very shores of London 's historic river . |
| 14 | ‘ Stealin' Horses ’ pops out of nowhere and hangs in the air , a skeletal ballad from Griffin with the accompaniment of a ghostly piano which can be heard weeping softy to itself in the basement . |
| 15 | The third , from the history department , is more explicit and distinguishes between general reading matter which would make " browsing … a broadening experience in itself for the children " and teacher resources ( including teaching packs and reference books ) which would not only stimulate improved pedagogy in the new " evidence-based course " , but also permit teachers to foster pupils ' library use by example . |
| 16 | It seemed to be Greece 's only chance of breaking out of isolation , its only hope of finding a role for itself in the world . |
| 17 | It is evident from this spate of new product launches that LIFFE sees an important European role for itself in the future . |
| 18 | Kinnock declared that " the Conservative supporting press has enabled the Tory party to win yet again when the Conservative party could not have secured victory for itself on the basis of its record , its programme or its character " . |
| 19 | It managed to sustain a comparison of itself as the resolute party to the OUP 's vacillation . |
| 20 | The plants needed up to 3000 poles an acre to grow , a fairly intensive demand in itself on the exploitation of Wealden underwood . |
| 21 | And from all these things the soft light proceeded , like the glimmering of pearls in the depth of water , like the phosphorescent light that moves of itself on the night surface of southern seas , or shines round the heaving shoals , milky-white over their silver darts , in our own dark Channel . |
| 22 | What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is an inner being , a soul , an inner mind , and inner life , an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in its potentialities , more plastic , more powerful , more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind , life or body ; especially , it is capable of a direct communication with the universal forces , movements , objects of the cosmos , a direct feeling and opening to them , a direct action of them and even a widening of itself beyond the limit of the personal mind , the personal life , the body , so that it feels itself more and more a universal being no longer limited by the existing walls of out too narrow mental , vital , physical existence . |
| 23 | this is a very good example of er putting interesting detail in the foreground in the way that tall bit of wood there is really making quite a a , an interesting subject in itself in the foreground . |
| 24 | As the model presents different sides of itself to the wind , it is necessary to hold on various trim offsets to remain stationary ( Fig. 5.1 ) relative to the pilot . |
| 25 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |
| 26 | Given recent reductions in the rate of personal taxation , there is now little fiscal benefit to be obtainedthough in any case that should have been regarded as an incidental benefit and not a justification in itself for the establishment of such a company . |
| 27 | Where , on the other hand , we have sense-qualification , the property of A is not applied as a property in itself to the entity identified by N ( nor are any referential and perceptual correlates of the intensional property to be looked for in the actual referent , if there is one , corresponding to that entity ) . |
| 28 | They saw universal , or manhood , suffrage not so much as an end in itself as the key which would unlock the door to radical or even revolutionary social and economic change . |
| 29 | If you are a newcomer to the product , Symphony now provides a very good introduction to itself in the form of its online tutorial . |
| 30 | The snow has penetrated everywhere , hiding gloves and socks , filling boots , even packing five centimetres of itself into the stove . |