Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] itself [prep] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 2 | And landlords and people of substance , who might normally offer charitable relief of their own , would certainly guard their purses as long as the government declared itself to be the great provider . |
| 3 | In a striking phrase , Enzensberger suggests that ‘ artistic productivity reveals itself to be the extreme marginal case of a much more widespread productivity ’ ( ibid : 46 ) . |
| 4 | The regime declares itself to be the only true guardian of socialism , but can offer no answer to what is happening elsewhere except to denounce foreign interference and to assert that communism must inevitably triumph . |
| 5 | I think it 's a great tragedy that Wales considers itself to be the poor relation within the United Reform Church and the answer can only lie within Wales ! |