Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] itself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can we entrust the future of Europe to a Germany which has still not wholly rid itself of a nationalism that hankers , whatever is said officially , over the ‘ lost ’ territories in the East , that still sees Germans as superior to other nations and races , that still relishes power over others ? |
| 2 | Can we entrust the future of Europe to a Germany which has still not wholly rid itself of a nationalism that hankers , whatever is said officially , over the ‘ lost ’ territories in the East , that still sees Germans as superior to other nations and races , that still relishes power over others ? |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the party could not entirely dissociate itself from the events which led to the formation of the National government , even if the chief villains , as far as it was concerned , were now in political opposition . |
| 4 | and as soon as the panes been blown out , it was such a force , it was blowing them between two houses , smashing on the road , and in the end , once a few more panes had gone that was it the whole greenhouse , I sat there watching this greenhouse , it just suddenly launched itself off the bit on it , over our fence , it went , there was glass everywhere for weeks afterwards , when I was cutting the lawn , oh dear the |
| 5 | By taking certain needs to be universal , classical theory not only committed itself to a particular approach , but also defined its subject-matter . |
| 6 | We should , however , appreciate the close relationship that existed between the philosophical beliefs and the political doctrine , which not only manifested itself in the convergence of interests with respect to social problems and class politics , but also provided the proposed reform in education ( and other attempts to ‘ educate ’ young workers , such as the club movement ) with a certain authority . |
| 7 | Finally , the Polish General Staff has not only seen itself as an avid ‘ consumer ’ of Soviet military doctrine , but a contributor as well , which has authored its own innovations with Soviet endorsement . |
| 8 | If the object-glass of a refractor or the mirror of a reflector is of poor quality , the images will also be poor — and a bad telescope does not always betray itself at a glance . |
| 9 | I believe that Wales continues to be less severely affected by the recession than the United Kingdom as a whole , but it can not possibly shield itself from the recession both in the United Kingdom and in the rest of the world . |
| 10 | The report cited above also concerns itself with the growth in projects creating electronic resources in the humanities , and the increase in those wanting access to information electronically held . |
| 11 | The other alliance in Ireland , the protestant — loyalist , does not thus far perceive itself as a nation . |
| 12 | At the lac wild-type promoter , RNA polymerase does not correctly position itself in the absence of CRP [ 14,42 ] . |
| 13 | That application can not simply model itself on the procedures of empirical research , however , since it has to operate within contexts which preclude it . |
| 14 | Code switching in this community therefore does not immediately lend itself to an account based on a notion of " we " and " they " : the " we " and " they " psychology must first be shown to exist . |
| 15 | But since such progress is conceived as immanent to musical history itself , independent of variants of musical practice , social usage and reception , the theory moves dangerously close to a hypostasis of technique ; at the very least it confines the relationship between musical and social structures to the level of the longue durée , since at that level society is ‘ encapsulated ’ in music , while in between , music 's ‘ autonomous unfoldment … follows the social dynamics without a glance or any direct communication ’ ( ibid : 206–7 ) , still less putting itself at the service of particular social subjects . |
| 16 | He considered that English , seen as a form of study rather than the practice of cultivated reading , had still not freed itself from the criticism of lacking intellectual strenuousness . |
| 17 | Provided the necessary resources to maintain an active programme of exhibitions are made available , the Library is now in a better position than ever before to project itself to the public at large through the use of instructive and stimulating displays . |
| 18 | The idea that the past harbours a golden age of tranquility also readily lends itself to the view that history might furnish us with effective methods of commonsense crime control . |
| 19 | As Twoflower watched , one of the shapes far above detached itself from the roof and began to grow larger … |
| 20 | St William 's has presented itself as a prime mover and so it falls to St William 's to work out how to express itself as a managing agent . |
| 21 | And the nuclear industry could n't always buy itself into the media . |
| 22 | Yet even the British acknowledge that there are individuals and countries ‘ wedded to sanctions ’ , and according to Commonwealth officials , Britain may well again find itself in a minority of one when the subject is debated . |
| 23 | The company , which has pretty much limited itself to the German market so far , is also looking to peddle its suite of software products across the border , in France , and is currently courting French distributors . |
| 24 | And since the effect would be to put off the catastrophe indefinitely , since Capitalism could now continue by reason of policies which provided also a solution to the problem of unemployment , Empirical Socialism need no longer distinguish itself from the Marxist version solely by the method and pace of change , by being evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 25 | As Foucault ( 1977 : 16 ) put it , punishment no longer addressed itself to the body of the criminal , but to the soul . |
| 26 | But repeat the procedure often enough and the response will diminish and eventually the animal will no longer curl itself into a ball when touched — as if it had become accustomed to the stimulus and no longer regarded it as dangerous . |
| 27 | Fortunately , the German spirit that found expression in the Reformation , and with it gave rise to the first German music , has never yet fully lost itself in the dominant Alexandrianism . |