Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Institutionalised racism manifests itself in insensitive service provision in health and social services , with barriers around language , the pattern of family names and vocabulary . |
| 2 | Confronted with the crass sexual exploitation of mainstream pop , alternative British rock shrouds itself in shapeless jumpers and stares heavenwards . |
| 3 | Do n't be surprised if your grief manifests itself in unexpected ways . |
| 4 | We use the words in the sense of a psychic process by which the mind protects itself from undue or unbearable pain , anxiety or conflict . |
| 5 | The remainder of this chapter concerns itself with these two outer layers . |
| 6 | The new complex lends itself to mechanised materials handling … whilst the cost of construction has been high , rental costs have been eliminated . |
| 7 | The result is a predictably idealistic criticism which at one level contents itself with rapid reference to formalistic definitions , and at another assesses the products of socialist realism with imprecise criteria culled generally from a liberal bourgeois critical tradition . |
| 8 | As a result Mossad involves itself in any type of operation that it feels helps Israel or at least deters its enemies . |
| 9 | Although , childbearing patterns thus belong to the behavioural sphere , their effect on the viability of offspring manifests itself through biological and physiological factors . |
| 10 | This influence manifests itself in melodic shapes ( largely pentatonic falling patterns , but , unlike , say , Chicago blues , also lyrical , sustained , long-breathed ) ; vocal timbre ( rich , open-throated , sensuous ) ; and the use of melisma . |
| 11 | The frugivores seem to have wider ‘ niches ’ in rain forests than elsewhere , but the converse theory that the habitat lends itself to finer division into niches seems to hold for the carnivores . |
| 12 | The story concerns itself with those negotiations . |
| 13 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |
| 14 | Egocentrism manifests itself in communicative terms as an inability to take account of another 's point of view ; instead , the world is seen rigidly from the standpoint of the self . |
| 15 | The methodological criterion on which our own study must be based is the following ; that the supremacy of a social group manifests itself in two ways , as ‘ domination ’ and as ‘ intellectual and moral leadership ’ . |
| 16 | Here , at the top of Bridge Street , on the road to Rickmansworth , is where respectable Pinner finds itself in rude confrontation with the real world . |
| 17 | The latter type of fuel lends itself to underwater storage for several decades . |
| 18 | The Board of Banking Supervision concerns itself with three issues : |
| 19 | Is it just because everyone else does , because she is the kind of person that people ask to parties , because her name inscribes itself by automatic writing on guest lists ? |
| 20 | The ‘ Bantustan effect ’ is a system by which a developed and dominating core area surrounds itself by poor and backward ‘ sovereign ’ states . |
| 21 | Honeymoon cystitis , with its descriptive and emotive label , is badly named , because it by no means restricts itself to married couples on honeymoon , whatever small proportion of such couples , these days , wait until their honeymoon for their first sexual experience together . |
| 22 | More than most things , lung area lends itself to gradual , step-by-step change , all the way from 0 square yards up to 70 square yards . |
| 23 | The area lends itself to circular tour , so you do n't have to retrace your steps . |
| 24 | ‘ What infinite variety presents itself in this enchanting spot , ’ wrote Abbot in his diary on first seeing it . |
| 25 | When Ultimate Concern expresses itself in particular religions , and adherents of those religions regard them as embodiments of the Ultimate then , in Tillich 's view , the particular has been elevated to the status of ultimacy . |
| 26 | His style lends itself to much deadpan humour : when describing the old custom of cutting the cake by breaking it over the bride 's head , he does it without as much as a wink . |
| 27 | A society organises itself in such a way that people adhering to cultural norms are rewarded whilst those that deviate are ‘ punished ’ , to a greater or lesser degree depending upon the culture . |
| 28 | Europe braces itself for third year of drought |
| 29 | Unfortunately , as was earlier on , central government has led the attacks , it 's led the attacks through Sheehey right the way through , and we were supportive of our police then , I think not only of this county , but of all counties , and all county police forces said the same , and we will support our police force , and certainly this budget recommends itself to that . |
| 30 | This variation in form manifests itself in different ways , depending on the language . |