Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than concerning itself with the way in which the properties of this structure emerge from its components , it takes the structure as given and asks how it reproduces itself and changes . |
| 2 | It has managed to fall flat on its ‘ face ’ after climbing to the very top of the glass and attaching itself to the underside of the small glass shelf that runs along the top , which , by the way , made it almost impossible to feed . |
| 3 | The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay . |
| 4 | A new grouping , the Boere Weerstandsbeweging ( BWB — a splinter group of the AWB formed on June 11 and describing itself as the armed wing of the BP ) , pledged solidarity with the BP in its aim of re-establishing former Boer republics . |
| 5 | Her trembling body was curving and lifting itself to the hardness of his in obedience to the quickening in her loins , a fierily hollow quivering , the force at the centre of a storm of sensation . |
| 6 | The remainder deflected downwards into the rear pressurised compartment , went straight through the conduit carrying the cables to the lower rear turret , then carried on into the rear gunner 's position , perforating the hatch and embedding itself in the lagging on the armour plating at the rear of the position . |
| 7 | We saw in Chapter 1 that , in Britain , there is some dispute as to when rehabilitation began to make serious inroads into penal practice : Foucault saw it as manifesting itself in the rise of the prison as the dominant penal institution ; Garland puts it much later , in the early part of this century . |
| 8 | It might even drift towards a Scandinavian-style peripheral role in Nato as well as distancing itself from the EEC . |