Example sentences of "for itself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fontana Cocktail Bar is also making a name for itself as one of the smartest new places in town . |
| 2 | Departures are either from the bustling port of Peterborough , or from Milton Keynes , which has finally found a role for itself as East Anglia 's answer to Blackpool . |
| 3 | 10-year old Danish company SuperUsers , which has its headquarters in a 16th century castle overlooking the sea North of Copenhagen , is carving out a niche for itself as a Unix ‘ knowledge house ’ for Scandinavian and European countries . |
| 4 | The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 5 | Once a chick bred in captivity can fly — at the age of eight weeks or so — it can be taken from its parents and released to hunt for itself for a month . |
| 6 | The United Kingdom 's right to decide for itself on the merits of a single currency is not an important factor in investment decisions . |
| 7 | Kinnock declared that " the Conservative supporting press has enabled the Tory party to win yet again when the Conservative party could not have secured victory for itself on the basis of its record , its programme or its character " . |
| 8 | Norway 's prospects of joining the EC might be harmed by its decision , if the EC were successful in demanding a seat for itself on the IWC . |
| 9 | SoftImage Inc , Montreal raised $14.4m before expenses for itself with a US offering of 1.22m shares , 850,000 of them new : the developer of professional three-dimensional software for the video and film production world will use use the net proceeds for working capital ; the managing underwriters were Hambrecht & Quist Inc and Volpe , Welty & Co Inc . |
| 10 | One slight problem that Cognos has created for itself with Unix in Europe is its failure to recognise those lucrative government markets where the national champion is often the favourite — to date Cognos has declined to serve the ICL Plc , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and Siemens AG environments . |
| 11 | Last year Dillons got John Mortimer on a holiday weekend , which was not good timing , but it has since made a niche for itself with local books . |
| 12 | Their success speaks for itself with over 190 new members on Covenant . |
| 13 | ‘ Darlington has made a name for itself with imaginative use of housing capital . |
| 14 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
| 15 | His rejection of the right of a religion to claim superiority for itself over other religions underlines his claim that no particular religion can embody what he calls the one , true and perfect Religion . |
| 16 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 17 | When enforcement was sought in Germany , the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf , holding itself required to examine the matter for itself under Article 27(2) of the Brussels Convention , held that service had not been effected in sufficient time to allow the defendant to make a defence . |
| 18 | ‘ We should ask national income estimators conceptual questions such as : which of the activities a farm family does for itself without payment , such as haircutting for example , have you included in the national income ? ’ , says a leading development economist ( Seers 1979 : 15 ) . |
| 19 | In fact , the whole instrument stands up for itself without relying on those industry stalwarts for support in any way , which makes a very refreshing change . |
| 20 | In keeping with a dominant impulse within inter-war English studies , he concludes that " Literature constitutes a body of knowledge to be studied in and for itself without regard to any educational value it may have … [ since ] its being is its own justification . " |
| 21 | While Raima 's database — now called the Raima Data Manager , but previously known as Db-Vista — is one of the least widely publicised of PC and Unix databases , it has carved out a niche for itself amongst C programmers . |
| 22 | The first Qumran-style desert community was established by Pachomius around 320 — at precisely the time that the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome was gaining official sanction for itself from Constantine . |
| 23 | The final text leaves this clash alone , free to speak for itself in a world where the reader believes he understands Stepan better than the narrator does . |
| 24 | A rule of thumb is that investment in energy efficiency is expected to pay for itself in two years . |
| 25 | But , rightly , ICI is acting as if a bid is imminent , preparing its defences and making plans for itself in a way that guarantees that much will change at the firm . |
| 26 | In the 1960s the Northern Ireland Labour Party ( NILP ) was on the verge of becoming a significant political force , despite the fact that it had been left to fend for itself in very difficult circumstances . |
| 27 | As the Laboratory of the Government Chemist ( LGC ) seeks to carve a competitive role for itself in today 's increasingly commercial research environment , the man in charge of its development programme is Dr Richard Worswick , the recently appointed Government Chemist and chief executive of the laboratory . |
| 28 | Such a qualified endorsement of the authority of the law falls short of acknowledging the authority the law claims for itself in two respects . |
| 29 | Last year , a passive solar collector on a house would have been expected to pay for itself in 12 to 15 years . |
| 30 | However , despite its diminutive size , it is well able to fend for itself in a mixed community tank , protecting its territory against all comers , even if they happen to be twice its size . |