Example sentences of "repeats itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offer was turned down by the then philistine government ( history repeats itself ? ) and the collection returned to Tabley House . |
| 2 | Years later family history repeats itself with Eve 's daughters , by which time Dolly has forsaken the screen and gone into the fancy confectionery trade . |
| 3 | The scenario repeats itself again and again : the rainwater gutters are choked with leaves and self-seeded grass ; damp seeps through the roof and , as the building is often boarded up and not properly ventilated , perfect conditions soon exist for an outbreak of dry rot . |
| 4 | The fundamental difference between water-clocks and mechanical clocks , in the strict sense of the term , is that the former involve a continuous process , for example , the flow of water through an orifice , whereas the latter depend on a mechanical motion that continually repeats itself and so divides time uniformly into discrete segments . |
| 5 | As we have seen , this benefit is unlikely to be as large as the CEGB argues , and if Britain 's history on nuclear construction repeats itself more closely than the board hopes , there could be short-term costs . |
| 6 | What is surprising is that their refusal to read black texts — a refusal that makes no disturbance in their intellectual life — repeats itself when they reread the traditional , established works of literature worthy of their attention . |
| 7 | ‘ Let's hope history sort of repeats itself , and we get promoted back in the year we come back home . ’ |
| 8 | The wearying scenario of disregard for human sensitivity , industrial rights and the need for consultation , endlessly repeats itself with disappointing and frustrating frequency . |
| 9 | The irony , remarked upon in connection with the supply of food animals , repeats itself here since the vast majority of these creatures will enjoy a well fed , decently housed , and sometimes even pampered existence , prior to a painless death . |
| 10 | At the lowest level , symptoms to which network managers are alerted include such things as a file re-transmission , while the diagnosis module steps in when a symptom repeats itself frequently and triggers a threshold , or when there is a single instance of a major network problem . |
| 11 | In the essay ‘ Theatum philosophicum ’ ( 1970 ) , written shortly after the Archaeology , Foucault attempts to avoid the snares of the problem of the relation of the event to the totality , or the particular to the general , that beset both Sartre and Althusser , by arguing that the event as event is only constituted through its repetition in thought as a ‘ phantasm ’ : ‘ it makes the event indefinite so that it repeats itself as a singular universal ’ . |
| 12 | This cycle repeats itself approximately every 90 minutes . |
| 13 | Being a violently-educated eighteen-year-old , I was familiar with Marx 's elaboration of Hegel : history repeats itself , the first time as tragedy , the second time as farce . |
| 14 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 15 | History surely repeats itself in the poll tax rebel 's end . |
| 16 | Inside , the heart repeats itself like a sleepy gong , |
| 17 | If one doctor treats condition ‘ y ’ with therapy ‘ x ’ , he may observe clinical improvement in the absence of any real treatment effect ; if this experience repeats itself , he is destined to become an enthusiast for therapy ‘ x ’ . |
| 18 | The process then repeats itself . |
| 19 | In ( d ) and ( e ) the current variations have become chaotic ; the pattern never repeats itself exactly . |
| 20 | This means that the pattern of variation never repeats itself . |
| 21 | History repeats itself in some less than mysterious ways . |
| 22 | Following last week 's journey back in time , history repeats itself again . |