Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Tivoli has the open systems distributed management market pretty much to itself at the moment , Moss knows that the provision of a pervasive technology standard to the industry can not generate a revenue stream much further into the future . |
| 2 | This is , in fact , not used very much by itself in the variety of English being described here , where questions are usually grammatically marked . |
| 3 | ‘ Marxism ’ , on the other hand , Sartre claims , ‘ is History itself becoming conscious of itself ’ ( I , 40 ) : as for Lukács , it is by becoming conscious of itself as the subject of history that the working class will understand history 's meaning — and so recognize itself as the meaning of history . |
| 4 | Once upon a time there was a white cloud which drifted all by itself in the clear blue sky . |
| 5 | Many of those involved had reached the conclusion that the philanthropic provision of youth services was inadequate by itself for the task of tackling the economic , social , and what were coming to be regarded as educational problems concerning working-class adolescents . |
| 6 | Barro is making the perfectly valid point that when the government incurs debt by issuing bonds it is acting as a mere go between on behalf of the private sector : the private sector is becoming more indebted to itself through the financial intermediation of the government . |
| 7 | The coincidence between the ordinary predicative and clausal positions is all the more striking in that the inherently restrictive adjectives can not be so used in predicate qualifying position ( where restriction for identification is not appropriate ) ; this is why there is a further contrast between ( 57 ) and ( 59 ) , even though the adjective is one of this inherently restrictive group in both cases , and despite the fact that the property THIRD is certainly compatible in itself with the noun ox : ( 57 ) she considers the Admiral ( to be ) the worst ( e.g. of the village 's gardeners ) ( 58 ) she declared the squire ( to be ) the lazy ( 59 ) the revellers had eaten the ox the third ( 60 ) they ate their steaks well done Example ( 60 ) shows that eat can support predicate qualifiers , so that incompatibility between the verb and the construction can not be given as a reason for the ungrammaticality of ( 59 ) . |
| 8 | The current campaign positioning for Johnnie Walker Black has remained true to itself for the last two and a half decades . |