Example sentences of "in itself the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In itself the dim complacency of gossip and cards at ‘ our club ’ would seem harmless , familiar , merely social ; but ‘ in itself ’ denatures The Possessed where groupings dissolve or collapse into each other , and where the ‘ merely ’ social has no place . |
| 2 | For a home is in itself the triumph of God banishing night and chaos and necessity , indwelling this lifeless clay with the Spirit divine of freedom and joy . |
| 3 | At the wasp-waist of the lough is the town of Enniskillen , scene of tragic murders , yet in itself the most delightful of neighbourhoods . |
| 4 | P. L. Forey offers us a somewhat smug polemic directly on this view ( ’ In itself the scenario is harmless ’ ; ‘ the cause of that ( taxonomic ) pattern if it is considered desirable to know it ’ etc ) . |
| 5 | It was this seemingly irreconcilable cleavage that effectively meant that the Council of Europe was in no position to advance by and in itself the concept of European union to any great length . |
| 6 | If policy-makers wish to kick this habit out of the classroom , it is clear that training in new skills is not in itself the answer . |
| 7 | That means both that there is a dialectical meaning of the practical ensemble … and that each singular event totalizes in itself the practical ensemble in the infinite richness of its singularity ’ ( II , 26 ) . |
| 8 | Hence , the child may grow up trying to be the better parent — replacing in itself the " bad " parental elements and exercising its goodness in this respect by Occupying the " good " parental position for others . |
| 9 | If , on the other hand , the obstacle is of such a kind as to jeopardize the integration of the market , it may seriously be doubted whether it is still proportionate to be in itself the legitimate objective pursued by the measure . |
| 10 | Such a practice cuts at the foundation of Aristoteleian notions of male and female difference and constitutes in itself the act of revolt — though the challenge it issues is more veiled than the more overt social questions asked by Hunter or Kelly . |
| 11 | Wimsatt 's use of the term ‘ iconic ’ ( and the title of The Verbal Icon ) derives from Morris 's distinction ( 1971 : 37 ) between the ‘ iconic ’ and the ‘ symbolic ’ sign ; the former is that which ‘ characterizes … by exhibiting in itself the properties of an object ’ , the latter that which does not do so , but has instead a purely conventional relationship with the object that it designates . |
| 12 | It follows from the arguments above that the transfer of ownership from the public to the private sector is not in itself the most important issue . |
| 13 | In itself the Beveridge structure rested on a set of assumptions about employment and family allowances which could not be planned for and might easily have proved disastrously misplaced . |
| 14 | As noted , there are few long run effects given the negligible size of the lagged dependent variables — a point which shows in itself the instability of demand for issuance — the market tends to be subject to " feasts and famines " . |