Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is here that the visual cat and mouse game in nature becomes so fascinating lending itself to multifold design possibilities . |
| 2 | It seems ironic that where , in the eighteenth century , novelists and architects alike look out of their elegant windows on to the cottages of the poor as pleasing little features in the landscape , the Victorians , for whom the dwellings of the middle class tended increasingly to set the standard , should view the great house itself from that perspective — from the outside , as the focus for a landscape , much as the eighteenth-century painters had done ( Fig. 24 ) . |
| 3 | We we need n't worry too much that thought but erm the Greek revolt itself in eighteen twenty to one to round about eighteen twenty five had gone on without any European intervention . |
| 4 | Below the streets were alive with people , all of them bathed in the neon glow that seemed to fill the very air itself with multi-coloured energy . |
| 5 | But there was something in her gaze , some power of kindness and peace , that would have stilled the very sky itself of stormy winds and rain . |
| 6 | Although an active sponsor itself for many years , Guinness also encourages others to use its sponsorship programmes to raise money for charity . |
| 7 | It was felt that to date such support had not been forthcoming in this region due to the prevailing indigenous political bias for private enterprise and to the lack of meaningful local government itself under direct rule . |