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 | Meanwhile the PowerOpen Association Inc unveiled itself with five sponsor members — Apple Computer Inc , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , IBM Corp , Motorola Inc and Thomson-CSF SA — spending an initial $750,000 and annual $250,000 to fund the Billerica , Massachusetts-based outfit . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | First and foremost has been the belief that the European Economic Community should primarily concern itself with economic matters . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The astonishing bed has a fan-like bed-head and is like a building in itself with built-in spotlights , hi-fi , and telephone . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But they remained second-class citizens as the Service restocked itself with young men of the right background from Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Finally , a sociology of culture must concern itself with general and specific problems of cultural organization . |
| 12 | It is being said with some conviction that Labour inflicted a serious blow on itself with that Sheffield monster rally . |
| 13 | Europe began to equip itself with electrical power stations ; London 's first was the Edison Holborn Viaduct station of 1882 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Designers ' Saturday is not an exhibition of how to furnish your home , but concerns itself with interior design as a whole . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For it is indeed time some party concerned itself with all those intangible forms of wealth that can not be included in anything called so appropriately the gross national product . |
| 19 | At first , it swept the whole side of the mountain , and , charging itself with all the rubbish it found there , made its way into the vale , following chiefly the direction of the Lissa . |
| 20 | My love , no longer inhibited by his existence , presented itself with all the understanding required to bring us together again — the gentleness , the words , the small gestures that make it possible for one person to reveal himself to another and two people to share life . |
| 21 | But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ . |
| 22 | The wearying scenario of disregard for human sensitivity , industrial rights and the need for consultation , endlessly repeats itself with disappointing and frustrating frequency . |
| 23 | Power Parallel , on the other hand , will content itself with multi-chip versions of the current RS/6000 chip Rios , Filip said . |
| 24 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |
| 25 | The whole endeavour was set in an international context , the Commission being charged with acquainting itself with modern penal practice abroad . |
| 26 | 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 … |
| 27 | 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) . |
| 28 | 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 ? ’ . |
| 29 | I think oftahis erasure as a kind of trembling hypochondria always curing itself with unnecessary surgery . |
| 30 | This constituted an altogether more active management , which had to concern itself with professional matters . |