Example sentences of "itself with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Classification Research Group of the Library Association formed itself with great hopes of constructing the ultimate universal scheme which could be adopted by all libraries . |
| 2 | Others , including Hobson and Brailsford , went further , arguing that any League would have to concern itself with economic and social , as well as purely diplomatic , matters if the deeper causes of war were to be addressed . |
| 3 | First and foremost has been the belief that the European Economic Community should primarily concern itself with economic matters . |
| 4 | If he were to defeat a Labour government as soon as it had taken office , the Liberals would be accused of frivolity in precipitating an unnecessary election , especially if Labour contented itself with moderate policies as it intended to do . |
| 5 | Yet to me it is more quietly impressive than all the grand ‘ exegi monumentum ’ gestures , since it refuses to turn outward to time , or the world , but addresses itself with complete absorption to its subject . |
| 6 | The astonishing bed has a fan-like bed-head and is like a building in itself with built-in spotlights , hi-fi , and telephone . |
| 7 | To this end , the Halifax allied itself with Standard Life , an insurer , and now earns commissions on sales of unit trusts and life insurance through its branches . |
| 8 | But they remained second-class citizens as the Service restocked itself with young men of the right background from Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 9 | Other issues that the FCC concerned itself with included the control of unruly behaviour ( both by young people and by American Legion club members ! ) , the use of vacant structures and neighbourhood welfare programmes , particularly for the elderly . |
| 10 | Finally , a sociology of culture must concern itself with general and specific problems of cultural organization . |
| 11 | Europe began to equip itself with electrical power stations ; London 's first was the Edison Holborn Viaduct station of 1882 . |
| 12 | Below the streets were alive with people , all of them bathed in the neon glow that seemed to fill the very air itself with multi-coloured energy . |
| 13 | I 'd say — and interrogate me in the cell itself with shouted , rapid-fire questions , punctuated by slaps in the face and , just once , hair-pulling . |
| 14 | Designers ' Saturday is not an exhibition of how to furnish your home , but concerns itself with interior design as a whole . |
| 15 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |
| 16 | The wearying scenario of disregard for human sensitivity , industrial rights and the need for consultation , endlessly repeats itself with disappointing and frustrating frequency . |
| 17 | Power Parallel , on the other hand , will content itself with multi-chip versions of the current RS/6000 chip Rios , Filip said . |
| 18 | The whole endeavour was set in an international context , the Commission being charged with acquainting itself with modern penal practice abroad . |
| 19 | Thereby did the diabolical Powers seek to mutate the substance of the universe and to destroy Man 's far-flung yet ultimately frail empire of sanity — a sanity that must needs defend itself with unrelenting savagery … |
| 20 | 9.15 ( a ) An L-section which when cascaded with itself with reversed input and output connections as depicted in ( h ) forms the symmetric T-section of figure 9.1(b) . |
| 21 | A second , related problem is that business ethics has mostly concerned itself with grand theorising , trying to answer questions such as ‘ Is capitalism ethically justifiable ? ’ and ‘ Can a profitable business ever be ethical ? ’ . |
| 22 | I think oftahis erasure as a kind of trembling hypochondria always curing itself with unnecessary surgery . |
| 23 | This constituted an altogether more active management , which had to concern itself with professional matters . |
| 24 | Since households and families are not autonomous units , the study will also concern itself with wide social and economic structures and concepts . |
| 25 | As well as prompting a rise in trade , the existence of a new class which found itself with spare time and spare cash at its disposal also heralded an era of unprecedented artistic achievement . |
| 26 | Science , as we know , has tremendous potential to change the way we live ; yet it professes not to concern itself with moral issues , insisting upon its own objectivity . |
| 27 | A graduate of Exeter College , Oxford , Tolkien had read Classical Mods and then done a version of the English course which was rigidly philological , and did not concern itself with post-medieval literature . |
| 28 | A sociology of culture must further and most obviously concern itself with specific artistic forms . |
| 29 | Here and elsewhere , the government strove to identify itself with new themes . |
| 30 | There followed a period of uncertainty until it found itself with new occupants Savory and Sons . |