Example sentences of "itself to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pastiche is a dualistic activity , and it is an activity which can lend itself to the expression of paranoid feelings and unacted desires . |
| 2 | It is hard to be sure about the year the photograph was taken , since the monuments of both Pahlavis were pulled down several times , whenever the occasion presented itself to the people . ’ |
| 3 | There was a restlessness in the time that communicated itself everywhere and to everyone , that communicated itself to the very sounds in Britain 's air , the stones beneath Britain 's feet . |
| 4 | One question which arises is why , with 256 code values available in each byte , has this control process limited itself to the 128 7-bit codes ? |
| 5 | This emphasis will not commend itself to the English reader whom Herbert Schniedau envisages . |
| 6 | In October 1984 , The Economist , remarkably enough , committed itself to the view that ‘ Mrs Thatcher is not now going to win the miners ’ strike outright . ’ |
| 7 | Shove it in a bottle neck , and it springs back , shaping itself to the glass . |
| 8 | Both show life in a mining town with some degree of realism and Reed 's picture , about a community in which the miners are browbeaten into working a coal seam which the proprietor knows to be dangerous , links itself to the documentarist sensibility with an opening voiceover referring to those ‘ simple working people who take heroism for granted as part of their daily lives ’ , and a concluding epilogue that calls for the world to be ‘ purged of its old greeds . ’ |
| 9 | The burgeoning opposition movement here has also extended itself to the army . |
| 10 | Pop music , it was argued ought to address itself to the ‘ real ’ problems — unemployment , racism , etc etc . |
| 11 | The non-proliferation treaty has not prevented countries like Israel , India and South Africa from secretly developing nuclear weapons , but at least they have not gone public with them and no country has officially added itself to the nuclear weapons states . |
| 12 | It is a dramatic change , and not one that recommends itself to the city 's residents . |
| 13 | One strand of modern research has devoted itself to the ferociously difficult task of building formal models that precisely state the conditions that are necessary and sufficient for competition to work , and describe whether and in what sense the result is ‘ efficient ’ . |
| 14 | Even after the £383m the bank got from selling a 14.9% stake in itself to the Hongkong Bank and the £1.1 billion it raised from a rights issue and the sale of its Scottish and Irish banks , Midland still struggles to keep its third-world debt provisions up to the level of its rivals . |
| 15 | We merely became accustomed to the general life of the common birds and animals , and to the appearances of trees and clouds and everything upon the surface that showed itself to the naked eye ’ . |
| 16 | The existence of Dolphin Square , easily the largest erection of its kind in Europe , owed itself to the general run-down of the British Army since the end of the war . |
| 17 | In a slow , confused , grudging process of adjustment the Labour Party attuned itself to the fight against fascism , and eventually the need to abandon its emphasis upon political independence . |
| 18 | In fact there was precious little to rely on in the unconscious unless the product was good enough to sell itself to the conscious senses , in which case the unconscious appeal was superfluous . |
| 19 | Archie Hamilton , son of the third Baron Hamilton , who served as Parliamentary private secretary to Margaret Thatcher , is another example of the old tradition accommodating itself to the new spirit in the party . |
| 20 | What they may not have realised is that that message conveyed itself to the American public ! |
| 21 | She had none of the fears of the normal servant that her honesty might ever be in doubt and her absolute conviction of her own integrity had finally communicated itself to the old man and been conceded by him . |
| 22 | But if Mr Major is at heart opposed to greater union , Britain 's policy is likely to be affected by the institutional pressures of Whitehall , which has over the years committed itself to the pro-European line . |
| 23 | Analysis that is performed only occasionally or perhaps in one batch does not lend itself to the statistical interpretation underlying conventional QC systems . |
| 24 | The bush welds itself to the primary shaft and will not disengage . |
| 25 | There is some disagreement about the size of the informal proletariat , which is not surprising given that its informal nature does not lend itself to the gathering of statistic , but most commentators see it representing about 40–60 per cent of the economically active population . |
| 26 | Arafat had tried to keep his Fatah guerrillas out of the fighting , but when the Phalange and Chamounists laid siege to the Palestinian camps of Karantina and Tel al-Za'atar , the PLO had committed itself to the war on the side of the Muslims and leftists . |
| 27 | In some haste he drafted a brief manifesto to show how the Conservative Party was adapting itself to the post-Reform Act political scene . |
| 28 | This fatalism lends itself to the infamous Burmese bureaucracy , partly because bureaucracy looks like efficiency , partly because bureaucracy fits so neatly into the unchanging Buddhist worldview . |
| 29 | A gay text is one which lends itself to the hypothesis of a gay reading regardless of where the author 's genitals were wont to keep house . |
| 30 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |