Example sentences of "[verb] itself [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : |
| 2 | Since its inception in 1984 the Middlesbrough 10k Road Race and Fun Run has proved itself one of the premier events of its kind in the North-East . |
| 3 | Seljalandsfoss is a ponytail of a waterfall throwing itself clear of the rim of its cliff to look like a 1950s American college girl shaking her head . |
| 4 | The Congress is virtually certain to declare itself independent of the Soviet Party . |
| 5 | President Mikhail Gorbachev on Jan. 11 went to the Soviet Baltic republic of Lithuania on a mission to seek solutions to a secessionist crisis created by the December 1989 decision of the Communist Party of Lithuania ( CPL ) to declare itself independent of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) [ see pp. 37128-29 ] . |