Example sentences of "[prep] itself [coord] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question now arises : can that rational animal Man ever become more than an animal which criticizes its own spontaneous tendencies in the light of its awareness of itself and of external conditions ? |
| 2 | Social discipline is wanted not just for itself but for these ends . |
| 3 | Although moral philosophers tend to treat aesthetics as a poor relation of their own discipline , it is in aesthetics that we arrive at the central problem of evaluating the activities which we pursue without thought of serving a purpose , in particular the one traditionally regarded as not merely good in itself but in some mysterious way improving to the agent , the contemplation of beauty . |
| 4 | Spinoza , for example , links the idea of independence with another principle — he calls it an " axiom " — viz. that " everything that exists exists either in itself or in another " .1 To exist " in itself " is to be self-subsistent , non-adjectival , non-parasitic , upon something else ; the characteristics that traditionally have been associated with substance . |
| 5 | Any coupon , voucher , token , card , stamp or similar document which can be exchanged ( by itself or with any other document ) for money , goods or services . |