Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] itself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruling groups have found that their interests are best safeguarded if they are supported by a work force which can not think for itself in the coherent way writing affords . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The subtle mind used against itself by the simple mind . |
| 4 | It 's like a B-movie from a past of happier memories , turned against itself by the one British director who truly understands the mode . |
| 5 | er the E C has really bought upon itself with the common agricultural policy a big animal that is very slow to move and it 's not really any advantages of each individual . |
| 6 | But finally a muddy old train trundles in from deepest Essex , chattering to itself like the Little Red Engine : ‘ I 'm a good little engine , I climbed over the hill . ’ |
| 7 | It would seem that imagination rightly directed enables the extension of meaning which is involved in the Incarnation ; but as the Incarnation points beyond itself in the risen and ascended Christ , so imaginative knowledge of God is transcended by a more purely spiritual experience . |
| 8 | But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board . |
| 9 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 10 | In between these two new efforts sits Filip 's Advanced Workstations & Systems which has , he notes , taken unto itself over the last year all the ingredients needed to be a stand-alone company bar a dedicated sales force . |
| 11 | Having dug its way out of the compost heap , it must immediately start to fend for itself in the hostile world of the mallee scrub . |