Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] itself [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second , related problem is that business ethics has mostly concerned itself with grand theorising , trying to answer questions such as ‘ Is capitalism ethically justifiable ? ’ and ‘ Can a profitable business ever be ethical ? ’ . |
| 2 | Isabel Marshall had been added at the age of fourteen , when her gawky , bony clumsiness had suddenly transformed itself into dazzling beauty , and Clara , her especial friend , was added a year later when her breasts grew . |
| 3 | A subordinate class , such as the working class will , by definition , be low on economic resources and this will reproduce its subordination ; but it may also possibly generate a collective ethic to cope with adverse circumstances and so reproduce itself in this way according to a common cultural identity . |
| 4 | It might have invested too little in building its capital stock , thus perhaps enfeebling itself in future competition with foreign rivals . |
| 5 | Cricket , an old and complex game , naturally lends itself to statistical analysis . |
| 6 | Because the terrain so lends itself to visual spectacle , the grand prix races draw crowds from Vienna , Salzburg and Innsbruck like no other . |
| 7 | The British Cabinet system simply does not lend itself to that sort of Novices ' Handicap . |
| 8 | It does not lend itself to detailed cost investigation of departments and activities because it does not indicate where the overheads are actually consumed . |
| 9 | It does not lend itself to detailed cost investigation of departments and activities because it does not indicate where the overheads are actually consumed . |
| 10 | Similarly , a new method or process of manufacture which does not lend itself to detailed analysis by competitors will probably remain immune from imitation by rivals precisely because the employer has avoided the mandatory public disclosure involved in proceeding with a patent application . |
| 11 | Article 3(4) areas — zone Defavorisee hors montagne — a zone comprised mainly of land that can not be cultivated and which does not lend itself to intensive production . |
| 12 | Such a position does not lend itself to anthropological analysis , since one of the objectives of the discipline is to learn something of value from the practices of the people one is studying . |
| 13 | For that reason , the Territorial Army does not consider itself in any way a second-class alternative . |
| 14 | When the door had opened to admit her , the waiting tension still gnawing at him had finally transformed itself into swift action , and he 'd been too busy quitting the bed and judging the right moment to attack to identify the intruder . |
| 15 | Is he aware that the Institute of Housing has recently reported that it does not believe that competitive tendering in housing management is a sensible option , saying that it does ’ not easily lend itself to competitive tendering ’ ? |
| 16 | The research does not limit itself to quantitative performance measures ( eg number and cost of jobs created ) but utilises the richness of qualitative yardsticks . |
| 17 | Government intention does not transform itself into public enterprise action in a mechanical and straightforward way . |
| 18 | Germany is now paying a price few other countries would have accepted for not providing itself with better citizenship and immigration laws in the calmer years before unification . |
| 19 | A leading figure in the Arab world , sure that the Third World should not align itself with either superpower . |
| 20 | Opposition also began to mount among concerned citizens of the area , an opposition which manifested itself both individually and through the Ringaskiddy Residents ' Association , formed two years previously , which had not involved itself in any controversy over previous planning applications for industrial projects in the area . |
| 21 | The pain which is manifest in all the muscles and sinews of the body … does not express itself with any violence either in the face or in the position as a whole . |
| 22 | Wordsworth 's was a face which did not assign itself to any class . |
| 23 | A graduate of Exeter College , Oxford , Tolkien had read Classical Mods and then done a version of the English course which was rigidly philological , and did not concern itself with post-medieval literature . |
| 24 | The EC does not concern itself with national health or education policies . |
| 25 | I think oftahis erasure as a kind of trembling hypochondria always curing itself with unnecessary surgery . |
| 26 | The latter assertion represents no more than a pious belief , since Sukenick 's text repeatedly fragments itself into short phrasal units , disparate narrative strands , and oddly shifting ‘ characters ’ . |
| 27 | The emerging Labour movement also threw itself into local politics with enthusiasm . |
| 28 | At present we have a government trying to run a free-enterprise economy having willingly hamstrung itself by fixed exchange rates and penal interest rates . |
| 29 | FOR accurate timekeepers , a watch that automatically sets itself to special radio time signals will be launched in Europe later this year . |
| 30 | This phenomenon again suggests that the interpretation of a pronoun is influenced by a representation of superficial aspects of the preceding text It also lends itself to experimental study . |