Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] itself [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Institutionalised racism manifests itself in insensitive service provision in health and social services , with barriers around language , the pattern of family names and vocabulary . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Labour committed itself to immediate acceptance of the Maastricht social charter , with implications for low pay and for women , and to meeting the UN 's target for aid as a percentage of GNP within five years . |
| 4 | If so , America will have missed its best opportunity to lock itself into low inflation . |
| 5 | The result is a predictably idealistic criticism which at one level contents itself with rapid reference to formalistic definitions , and at another assesses the products of socialist realism with imprecise criteria culled generally from a liberal bourgeois critical tradition . |
| 6 | By the summer of 1925 his growing disillusionment manifested itself in ceaseless role-playing , posing , self-interrogation . |
| 7 | The financial sector prepared itself for full deregulation and open competition with foreign institutions . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | Here , at the top of Bridge Street , on the road to Rickmansworth , is where respectable Pinner finds itself in rude confrontation with the real world . |
| 10 | It is not surprising that Nizan 's gaze eventually alighted on the French communist party , a source of ideological certainty , a small community defending itself by rigid discipline against the fluidity , compromise and unreliability of centrist politics in Third Republic France . |
| 11 | The latter type of fuel lends itself to underwater storage for several decades . |
| 12 | The miners refused to accept such changes and the General Council of the TUC committed itself to sympathetic strike action from Friday , 31 July . |
| 13 | 789 ( CS 262 : S 1183 ) , but whether Lindsey detached itself from Mercian control in 757–8 and , if so , how long an interval elapsed before Offa reasserted himself is unknown . |
| 14 | Is it just because everyone else does , because she is the kind of person that people ask to parties , because her name inscribes itself by automatic writing on guest lists ? |
| 15 | Their resentment at Gloucester 's insertion into the area manifested itself in open rivalry with the duke and early in 1470 Edward was obliged to intervene in the quarrel . |
| 16 | Their resentment at Gloucester 's insertion into the area manifested itself in open rivalry with the duke and early in 1470 Edward was obliged to intervene in the quarrel . |
| 17 | Leading politicians in Britain , particularly in the mid-nineteenth century Liberal Party , scorned the imperial enterprise as no more than a way of offering the unemployable aristocracy a means to enrich itself at heavy cost to the innocent . |
| 18 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 19 | The area lends itself to circular tour , so you do n't have to retrace your steps . |
| 20 | This astonishing diversity manifested itself in great complexity of relationships and in our lacking dominance almost everywhere . |
| 21 | Fashions come and fashions go , but one style repeating itself with enormous popularity is that of the Edwardian era . |
| 22 | Much of the overall improvement owes itself to improving fertilizer prices and better productivity . |
| 23 | A much more specific fear was that young people would be provoked into imitative crime by the daring exploits witnessed on the screen , and the National Council of Public Morals addressed itself with particular vigour to the belief ‘ that the picture house is responsible for the increase in juvenile crime , and that boys are often led to imitate crimes ( larceny or burglary ) which they have seen in the pictures , or to steal money that they may pay for admission , . |
| 24 | The standard costing system is helpful in creating a budget for an R&D project to specify , design , develop and manufacture a new product , since the standard rates for all the activities planned , multiplied by the time estimate for each phase of the project , give the estimated investment in the new product in a form lending itself to detailed discussion . |
| 25 | The standard costing system is helpful in creating a budget for an R&D project to specify , design , develop and manufacture a new product , since the standard rates for all the activities planned , multiplied by the time estimate for each phase of the project , give the estimated investment in the new product in a form lending itself to detailed discussion . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Although the horn lent itself to delicate work and when finished had a smooth feel , its natural colour , yellow , mottled and streaked with grey , was so unattractive that the Chinese stained the objects they carved from it an artificial brown . |
| 28 | John Mansfield Comprehensive School , Peterborough was the first school to sell itself on local radio . |
| 29 | The financial stringencies which accompany marriage and child-rearing caused this interest to be set aside , and once it had gone , the cultural tradition asserted itself to remarkable effect . |
| 30 | A semantic net lends itself to graphic display , and its meaning tends to be intuitively , if not formally , clear . |