Example sentences of "itself on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was through such ascendancy that ‘ the power of the uncles , ’ from which Leonard appears to have suffered somewhat in adolescence , obtruded itself on the maturing boy . |
| 2 | Just so might the exhausted arrogance of a dying empire have expressed itself on the lips of a Roman senator waving away the news of a ‘ crackpot messiah ’ among the Jews , and the strange thoughts that occur to people in Jerusalem or Galilee . |
| 3 | In addition the strategic significance of the railways had impressed itself on the Bolsheviks . |
| 4 | With the opening of the International Convention Centre the city hopes to put itself on the tourist map . |
| 5 | The further east the boundaries are drawn , the more Britain will find itself on the Western periphery of a Germany-centred Europe . |
| 6 | As the country found itself on the brink of a constitutional crisis , Mr Havel said the best way to avert such a crisis would be for President Husak to quit and for a strong prime minister to assume his authority temporarily , as the constitution permits . |
| 7 | It 's one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated . |
| 8 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 9 | The imagery imprinted itself on the minds of a whole generation of parents who had lost young children . |
| 10 | ‘ Naughty cat , she would n't let you in then , ’ he chides the moggie disporting itself on the carpet . |
| 11 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 12 | There is a good deal of evidence to show , however , that industrial capitalism places women on the periphery of the economy , and for women in a Third World country which is itself on the periphery of a world economy , the situation is even more difficult . |
| 13 | Their common concern was the chaos that would unleash itself on the city if a radioactive cloud from Hinkley Point was carried by the prevailing wind . |
| 14 | And from all these things the soft light proceeded , like the glimmering of pearls in the depth of water , like the phosphorescent light that moves of itself on the night surface of southern seas , or shines round the heaving shoals , milky-white over their silver darts , in our own dark Channel . |
| 15 | In July 1868 — barely a year after leaving Blomfield 's office — his first novel , ‘ The poor man and the lady ’ , was submitted to Macmillan , a firm which prided itself on the quality of its fiction list . |
| 16 | Each bird disposed itself on the sea like a great white flower . |
| 17 | Connectors may be obtained from a local plumber 's merchant or DIY store to enable it to be fitted to a standard threaded water tap at one end and the hosepipe itself on the other . |
| 18 | Although tied in , it also supports itself on the pyracantha which , in its turn , requires strong anchorage |
| 19 | The Ego does charitable work in order to pat itself on the back , and feel self-righteous — not from a sense of love and concern . |
| 20 | The plants needed up to 3000 poles an acre to grow , a fairly intensive demand in itself on the exploitation of Wealden underwood . |
| 21 | That application can not simply model itself on the procedures of empirical research , however , since it has to operate within contexts which preclude it . |
| 22 | However , we never put heterosexism itself on the conference agenda , nor did we ask heterosexual participants to discuss it . |
| 23 | WITH COVENT Garden on the rise , West Soho , London 's Eighties mecca of zonal shopping , is looking to keep itself on the agenda . |
| 24 | What really matters at the moment is that the rugby pot keeps itself on the boil , so that it wo n't need too much of a boost from the fickle flames of European International rugby , when it returns in the New Year , to reactivate the interest of the casual followers uncovered by the World Cup . |
| 25 | The rich North Italian industrial city of Turin has decided to put itself on the international map with a biennial art and antiques fair to be held at the Lingotto , the spectacular former Fiat car factory , from 27 February to 7 March . |
| 26 | The creature flings itself on the nearest character , crazed with pain and the desire to escape . |
| 27 | The OALD prides itself on the number and quality of its examples — it contains far more than any comparable dictionary . |
| 28 | European civilization was the first to impose itself on the whole surface of the globe . |
| 29 | On the continuum of penal philosophy which stretches from the punitive to the reformative , the Nicaraguan penal system has placed itself on the far edge of reform . |
| 30 | The primarily Scottish Nova Scotia Company had established itself on the Atlantic seacoast north of Maine and the Canada Company had in 1628 captured the recently established French base at Quebec , but both of them had to give up their territory when peace was made with France in 1632 , and they faded into financial oblivion . |