Example sentences of "[prep] itself [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only difference between the two species is that splurge-weed reproduces by hiving off chunks of itself consisting of indeterminate numbers of cells , while bottle-wrack reproduces by hiving off chunks of itself always consisting of single cells . |
| 2 | A Jockey Club statement said : ‘ In the view of the stewards , no error of judgment highlighted by the committee arises from or is attributable to any breach of the rules of racing , nor does any such error of itself amount to such a breach . |
| 3 | As it flowed , it incorporated into itself masses of loose debris , mud , rubble and boulders , some of them reported to weigh fifty tons . |
| 4 | What matters is not whether the human psyche is in itself constructed in grammatical terms ( as Noam Chomsky has suggested ) , but that social behaviour lends itself to analysis in broadly linguistic terms . |
| 5 | For one thing , her subject was in itself appealing to most of the girls , or at least intermittently so ; they enjoyed watching crystals grow , and weighing small things on small scales , and making little bits of sodium whizz round saucers of Water , so they quite voluntarily offered her their attention from time to time . |
| 6 | The diverse interests of the different institutions , in a body bringing them together , should in itself serve as some partial insurance against too much ‘ selling pressure ’ . |
| 7 | His own ecclesiastical authority as an archbishop and metropolitan , though a reflection of papal authority at one level , was too important to him in itself to allow of such a thing . |
| 8 | On the one hand the rise of polities headed by rulers and functioning by means of hierarchies of administrative , priestly and military officials , in itself called for graded insignia to legitimize the exercise of power . |
| 9 | Rather than addressing individual anomalies by directives , ICAS called for a conceptual framework and a single model tax treaty , to be signed by all EC members , which would in itself result in harmonised treatment of cross-border transactions . |
| 10 | While acknowledging the argument that defining councils ' economic powers in law would give formal recognition to the importance and priority of the function , Mr MacIver claims a statutory power would not in itself result in greater recognition . |
| 11 | Of course , switching on and off of genes does not in itself result in developmental change ; switching genes on and off acts by changing which proteins are made and this in turn alters cell behaviour by pathways that , to repeat , may be quite tortuous . |
| 12 | Measuring the blood glucose at home will not in itself result in improved glycaemic control . |
| 13 | Many portraits nowadays are corporate commissions and some would say this in itself makes for dull viewing . |
| 14 | Somewhat surprisingly , there is little evidence to suggest that a city 's industrial structure in itself accounts for poor urban performance ( Fothergill and Gudgin , 1982 ) . |
| 15 | As in The German Ideology , we seem to start with a similar early evolutionary stage which is roughly described as ‘ tribal ’ and which in itself divided into three . |
| 16 | In addition , local employment is created and this promotes goodwill towards the company , which in itself assists in developing markets further . |
| 17 | A failure to pay your salary at the agreed time , for example , might not in itself amount to constructive dismissal , although if the delay were prolonged or repeated subsequently , the position could be different . |