Example sentences of "itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were , moreover , good reasons why a rapidly-growing industry such as electricity should raise a large proportion of its capital on the market rather than financing itself through higher earnings , as some of the critics suggested . |
| 2 | Should you get your luggage down as the express hurls itself through Lower Poppleton ? ) |
| 3 | When love truly seizes the heart it is like a malignant fever which thence disperses itself through all the sensible parts . |
| 4 | Dulwich inevitably suffers from its geographical situation four miles south of central London , and currently lacks any surplus funds to promote itself through increased advertising . |
| 5 | When , in any group of persons , the ego is subjected to such invidious versions of itself through social beliefs , ideology and tradition , the effect is bound to be pernicious . |
| 6 | In all cases , the inner mental being of a creature is similar throughout its life cycle , though expressing itself through different outward physical forms as it metamorphoses . |
| 7 | Let us hope that it manifests itself through some outward show . |
| 8 | Although , childbearing patterns thus belong to the behavioural sphere , their effect on the viability of offspring manifests itself through biological and physiological factors . |
| 9 | When this is not enjoyed it is because our own essential nature is frustrated in its enjoyment of itself through physical or mental disease or by physical or social circumstances . |
| 10 | The Students ' Union is supported financially by a grant from the University and by the income it generates itself through commercial services . |
| 11 | The Students ' Union is supported financially by a grant from the University and by the income it generates itself through commercial services . |
| 12 | While the effect is a variation of point of view , the structure is that of a ‘ strange loop ’ — by definition a transgression of conventional ontology — which works itself through several narrative levels . |
| 13 | Having grasped the use of silence you now have to quieten your own brain , stop it muttering away to itself about all the things you need to do and may forget , stop it reacting and getting on its high horse when all it needs to do is to absorb information and store it for future reference . |
| 14 | The authorities closed the Square itself during early June , citing a number of apparently spurious events , including a mass driving lesson for the city 's taxi-drivers on June 4 . |
| 15 | The country found itself during 1990 and in the early part of 1991 in a vicious circle of falling productivity and chronic shortages caused by the lack of foreign exchange to pay for imports . |
| 16 | The territorial expansion of the big cities , and the further metropolitanization of London itself during this period , represents a fascinating period of land-use change and urban transformation . |
| 17 | His illness began to manifest itself during this time but , being David , he refused to allow it to interfere with his duties as President . |
| 18 | Clashes also continued within Turkey itself during this period , and some 40 people were reported to have been killed in separate incidents , the worst of these occurring on Aug. 16 when 14 Kurds and five troops and police died as demonstrations broke out to mark the eighth anniversary of the separatist rebellions of 1983 [ see pp. 33037-38 ] . |
| 19 | This states that a solute distributes itself between two immiscible liquids in a constant ratio of concentrations irrespective of the amount of solute added . |
| 20 | But the spirit of the age among the people I knew manifested itself as general drift and idleness . |
| 21 | The Fontana Cocktail Bar is also making a name for itself as one of the smartest new places in town . |
| 22 | To be fished on the prolific waters around Galway this new event promises to establish itself as one of Ireland 's best . |
| 23 | The successful development of negotiating skills has proved itself as one of the most cost-effective investments in company profitability . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , in recent years we have been moving , albeit slowly and hesitantly , towards the view that the primary school should regard itself as one element in a united national service to children . |
| 25 | Formed in 1981 , Leeds based Phoenix Dance Company has established itself as one of Britain 's leading contemporary dance companies . |
| 26 | Solar-powered house in Europe : BP Solar has established itself as one of the top two suppliers of photovoltaics in Europe . |
| 27 | PL 480 has established itself as one of the United States ’ most successful market development tools ’ ( p.20 ) . |
| 28 | In modern clinical psychoanalysis it manifests itself as that part of the ego which represents a critical self-awareness which is both censorious and exhortatory , being the representative of standards , ideals , commands and prohibitions . |
| 29 | When considering the weight or strength of the reasons for an action , the reasons for the rule can not be added to the rule itself as additional reasons . |
| 30 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |