Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [vb base] [art] [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 | With the replacement of Selwyn Lloyd by Maudling , Tory economic policy changed back to ‘ go ’ again , this time with the spurious rationalisation that fiscal expansion would of itself produce a virtuous circle of increased growth of GDP , increased productivity , increased exports and a further increase in growth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sean McBride , one of AI 's founding members , explained the central role that education must play in promoting the values espoused by the UDHR : ‘ Effectively used , world public opinion can in itself become an important influence on the centres of power in the world . |
| 8 | This can not in itself resolve the philosophical questions which underlie the controversy . |
| 9 | This will help the breast to clear the infection and may in itself prevent a mild bout from getting worse . |
| 10 | At least one of them will have the whippier shaft which , I suspect , might in itself go a long way to doing the trick . ’ |
| 11 | But while it is true that an economic or financial crisis will generally have a clear effect on a state 's coinage , the converse is not necessarily true : a debasement of the coinage does not in itself indicate a financial crisis , since it might take place for some other reason . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Revisionists have therefore questioned the notion that the commune in itself had been a major barrier to improvement or labour mobility and , equally , the notion that dismantling the commune would in itself provide a major stimulus to agricultural development . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Lord Keith at p 640 said , as a general rule it is in the public interest that confidences should be respected , and the encouragement of such respect may in itself constitute a sufficient ground for recognising and enforcing the obligation of confidence even where the confider can point to no specific detriment to himself . |
| 17 | Cases have established that the power of expulsion must be exercised ‘ reasonably ’ and that wrongful that is , unjust ) expulsion does not in itself constitute an actionable tort . |
| 18 | The issue of a writ for libel does not in itself create a prior restraint in contrast to the grant of an injunction . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What is being suggested is that dreams in themselves have no absolute meaning or import — so that the idea of analysing them in terms of standard sets of criteria becomes a nonsense — but that the reaction of the dreamer to his or her dream can be very significant . |
| 21 | It would therefore appear that nutritional modifications in themselves have an important effect on serum lipids and lipoproteins . |
| 22 | I listened to myself make a horrible noise like Eric going crazy over the phone , and hoped that nobody was passing and could see me in such an undignified and weak position . |
| 23 | Yet the economic situation will not by itself defeat the present regime . |
| 24 | This might well be the case but does not by itself establish a logical necessity for legislative omnicompetence for Parliament . |
| 25 | Identifying divisions of interest does not by itself provide an adequate rejection of the claim that elites are very powerful in Japan . |
| 26 | On the whole changing behaviour patterns by blocking off existing patterns is the least effective method because blocking one pattern does not by itself create a new one . |
| 27 | The mere fact , for example , that the investor had sold on the shares would not by itself render the statutory remedy of rescission inapplicable . |