Example sentences of "reveals itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heterosexuality , once it is exposed as an exchange of women between men , reveals itself as a mediated form of homosexuality . |
| 2 | The past often appears ideal in retrospect , yet if one looks at it closely it reveals itself as a dangerous place where we laid mines to trap others , and others laid them to trap us . |
| 3 | I threaten nothing , but sit on my branch , attentive as any other creature ; as slowly the forest reveals itself in the cry of a bird , the crash of a branch , the rustle of leaves as something moves through the forest litter ; the incessant percussive music of insects . |
| 4 | My advice is to remember that the short story is about one thing and one thing only , which often reveals itself in a single situation . |
| 5 | Although its giant neighbour , Ben Alder , can be viewed from the A9 at the top of Loch Ericht , and the peak further west along its ridge , Aonach Beag , can be seen briefly from the A86 if you 're not fishing about for an extra strong mint in the glove compartment , Carn Dearg reveals itself only to those prepared to sweat a bit . |
| 6 | The structure of intelligence reveals itself spontaneously in the way people behave intellectually ; it is not imposed by the assumptions of testers , as the national press would have it . |
| 7 | The EXAFS for Si in glass reveals itself as the ‘ wiggles ’ following the absorption threshold , seen clearly in Figure 2. the case for the application of EXAFS to glass is overwhelming . |
| 8 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 9 | Money , which in ‘ normal times ’ represented a value in itself , finally reveals itself as an intermediary symbol , without any independent value . |
| 10 | Not Beethoven playing for everyday listening perhaps , but rather a fine wine , to be pondered over , and deliberated upon at length before its true quality most fully reveals itself . |
| 11 | Change in the garden is inevitable — but some of the ways in which it reveals itself are a great deal more interesting than others . |
| 12 | The lid is lifted , the subconscious reveals itself , God-like and demonic , both challenging to light assumptions . |
| 13 | Despite the different styles and theological stances of the writers , the epic quality of the gospel reveals itself . |
| 14 | Listening to the speech of those around us , we begin to discern how character reveals itself through words and also how people use words to veil themselves . |
| 15 | The relationship is initiated by an encounter when the object or being reveals itself as ‘ people ’ ( beri ) — a person with consciousness — in a dream , trance , or during a waking state in the jungle . |
| 16 | A Zeitgeist is all the more convincingly that , it may be argued , if it reveals itself simultaneously and without conspiracy or foreknowledge , but some of the cards in this pack look pretty wild . |
| 17 | The affinity between dog and cat reveals itself in the number of equi-status or near-equi-status traits they have in common ; and the differences between dog and cat appear more sharply when the affinity patterns are articulated in greater detail by means of diagnostic frames . |
| 18 | The paradox does not present itself in quite so acute a form if a weaker version of the contextual approach is adopted , which holds merely that the meaning of a lexical unit reveals itself through its contextual relations , without commitment as to what meaning ‘ really is ’ . |
| 19 | For some this reveals itself as a conflict between the top and the lower tiers of the organization , between strategy making and local autonomy . |
| 20 | In a striking phrase , Enzensberger suggests that ‘ artistic productivity reveals itself to be the extreme marginal case of a much more widespread productivity ’ ( ibid : 46 ) . |
| 21 | He is intrinsically proud : this reveals itself through his habit of defining himself by telling you his achievements . |
| 22 | A disturbed situation also reveals itself in the south-east . |
| 23 | A community reveals itself gradually through a multiplicity of voices . |
| 24 | Might it be also true of Jackson 's work that its formalism is so relentless that it actually reveals itself as questioning the parameters within which it operates ? |
| 25 | Also crucial to the accomplishment of this aim is his awareness of the potential ambiguity of language , an awareness which reveals itself on a number of occasions in his conversational behaviour . |