Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third ‘ sacred myth ’ of literacy is that transferring a set of technical skills to illiterates will of itself create the necessary conditions for economic growth and prosperity . |
| 2 | Therefore , the application of communication techniques , no matter how skilled and imaginative , will not of itself ensure the effective transmission of the gospel message . |
| 3 | By contrast , where time is not of the essence for the service of a landlord 's notice calling for a rent review , mere delay by the landlord , however lengthy and even if coupled with hardship to the tenant , does not of itself destroy the contractual right which the landlord has to serve a notice . |
| 4 | Another potentially distorting factor is that whilst average incomes can be compared between one country and another , they do not of themselves reveal the true comparable standard of living , nor the comparable potential markets for all products . |
| 5 | Now it 's up to people like myself to get the on-field matters right . |
| 6 | The Dog Man was a walker like myself doing the Pennine Way . |
| 7 | Along that road lies endless retreat , and the end of it is a voluntary totalitarian state with ourselves erecting the barbed wire around . |
| 8 | One interesting asymmetric section is that L-section which back-to-back with itself forms the symmetric T or Π-section of figure 9.1 as illustrated in figure 9.15 . |
| 9 | So taken by the Cardus pictures in words , Simon took it upon himself to visit the famous school and ‘ the most beautiful playing fields in the world . ’ |
| 10 | So taken by the Cardus pictures in words , Simon took it upon himself to visit the famous school and ‘ the most beautiful playing fields in the world . ’ |
| 11 | On May 8 the director of operations of the UN 's World Food Programme ( WFP ) , Robert Hauser , had appeared to contradict current UN policy when he said that the food-supply situation in Iraq did not in itself warrant the continuing presence of international relief agencies ; since food rationing was relatively efficient , he said , claims of widespread malnutrition were exaggerated . |
| 12 | Clearly , this aspect of our account of habituation is not enough in itself to explain the latent inhibition effect . |
| 13 | This can not in itself resolve the philosophical questions which underlie the controversy . |
| 14 | The 1927 Cinematograph Act imposed a distributors quota of 7.5 per cent , and an exhibitors quota of five per cent , both rising to 20 per cent , but it did nothing in itself to shift the economic balance in favour of British producers . |
| 15 | This activation of a hypothesis through connections to any part of it is enough in itself to recover the missing information , but TRACE II also has feedback from the higher level which can increase the activity of all the lower level descriptions which support it . |
| 16 | This laborious data entry method comes in various guises — that fact in itself explains the slow pace of computer penetration in Japanese society . |
| 17 | Ph D research may not in itself produce the major theoretical advances in science , but the personal developmental effects may , if carried out in centres of excellence , combine with good training to produce scientists capable of making such advances . |
| 18 | The question remains as to the cause and the manifestation of these crises , since merely to assert that crises are the result of the disturbances of equilibrium does not in itself locate the precise nature of the process — it merely poses it . |
| 19 | In Vietnam , other complaints centred on the lack of industrial development , the stranglehold of French companies and , especially , of the Banque de l'lndochine — a consortium of Paris banks which had a monopoly of banking services — but while one may say that the nature of colonial development or colonial repression in itself created the necessary conditions for revolution or national liberation , it is obviously time to consider how these , and other , factors influenced the forms of Vietnamese resistance . |
| 20 | But a breach in the wall à la ITV or even Dallas does not in itself destroy the fundamental nature of the existing system ; it may contain within it forces which threaten it but a well established and respected institution such as the BBC ought to be able to adapt to change . |
| 21 | They offered in effect a free counselling service and many of the problems brought to them were of a spiritual nature , which in itself showed the high level of spiritual and religious interest in England during the fourteenth century . |
| 22 | In concluding his judgment , Lord Wilberforce examined the claim that the designation of the transaction as a mortgage in itself protected the entire contents of the mortgage deed from the scrutiny of the restraint of trade doctrine . |
| 23 | By the late age of 37 , I finally felt secure enough in myself to take the ultimate risk — and I became pregnant . |
| 24 | She was still full of doubt as she said , ‘ You have n't been slow — you 've just been too busy weaving a net round yourself to keep the female species out of your life . ’ |
| 25 | Yet these signs in themselves emphasise the provisional nature of the Kingdom , because all of those who were healed in the New Testament subsequently became sick and died . |
| 26 | There was no one except herself to protect the poor children , and she had n't made much of a job of it . |
| 27 | To say that to herself restored the original meaning of the word ‘ terrible ’ : it provoked terror , even a kind of awe . |
| 28 | And I 'm sat there , think to myself put the bloody fire on , put your feet up . |
| 29 | Unlike VP16-Myc N , Max103-VP16 by itself transactivates the CACGTG-CYC1 promoter ( Fig. 2 b ) . |
| 30 | Yet the economic situation will not by itself defeat the present regime . |