Example sentences of "[verb] itself [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accent then moved itself onto the first syllable ( ‘ ga rrage ’ ) , and now the pronunciation is sometimes changed to ‘ garridge ’ . |
| 2 | The AT&T programme , called ‘ New Art : New Visions ’ , describes itself as the first corporate effort in the U.S. to help promote recently created work by living artists , especially the work of women and ‘ artists of colour ’ , the term now used to refer to artists of the many racial minority groups vying for exhibition space and for a dwindling pool of public and corporate funds . |
| 3 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 4 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 5 | It may spend itself before the next one . ’ |
| 6 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 7 | The conflict between the courts and trade unions showed itself in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth as an expression of class conflict . |
| 8 | In all this , remember that the phenotypic effects of a gene are the tools by which it levers itself into the next generation . |
| 9 | He welcomed a recent Government announcement that an extra £25 million would be made available to help his organisation to restructure itself over the next three years . |
| 10 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |
| 11 | The main thesis of the existentialist approach is that in order to elucidate the full significance of ontological claims conveyed by existential propositions we ought to begin by focusing attention upon the one for whom the " problem of existence " presents itself in the first instance as a problem of his own existence . |
| 12 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 13 | Its fragrance is real , and penetrating : but it does not release itself at the first casual opening of the pages . |
| 14 | It took advantage of the country 's transferred preferential voting system by projecting itself as the second choice for the country 's growing number of Green voters . |
| 15 | The proto-JPL proved itself during the Second World War . |
| 16 | Readying itself for the next release of Solaris this week , SunPro , a division of Sun Microsystems Inc based in Mountain View , California , will ship its C Transition Pack on July 1 . |
| 17 | In 1896 the fourth Congress resolved itself into the first National Council with a permanent staff and offices , at first in Birmingham and then in the Congregationalists ' London headquarters , Memorial Hall . |