Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] itself [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shadows enable light to manifest itself and give it objective reality , just as wisdom can only manifest itself in the face of ignorance . |
| 2 | At the present time the Tribunal may only concern itself with the modification and discharge of restrictive covenants , therefore only the restrictive obligations contained in the agreement . |
| 3 | The loss of full-back Robertson would leave Rangers short in that department but his hamstring injury does not lend itself to the taking of risks . |
| 4 | There is some disagreement about the size of the informal proletariat , which is not surprising given that its informal nature does not lend itself to the gathering of statistic , but most commentators see it representing about 40–60 per cent of the economically active population . |
| 5 | And , like mine , it did not lend itself to the sort of conclusion Berkeley wanted to draw , to the effect that we are not justified in calling material things hot and cold . |
| 6 | A twenty-foot wing-span model powered by a steam engine of Henson origin , but much improved by Stringfellow , was tested in 1845 but could not sustain itself in the air . |
| 7 | A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique . |
| 8 | The lasting pattern of this world-market agriculture did not establish itself until the period of the imperialist world economy of 1870–1930 . |
| 9 | Another kind developed in which the elaborated worm did not attach itself to the sea floor but continued to crawl about and secreted a small conical tent of shell under which it could huddle when in danger . |
| 10 | It does not commend itself on the basis of observable experience in the everyday world , and it can not be easily and rationally justified . |
| 11 | This view did not commend itself to the pope . |
| 12 | The population census does not start from sociological theory and does not concern itself with the formulation of explicit hypotheses . |
| 13 | In effect this meant accepting that the sociology of knowledge must not concern itself with the truth of knowledge being studied but analyse the ‘ norms of thinking ’ for the participants under study : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If you are a person who usually eats roughly the same amounts each day , with regular meal times , a typical pattern will quickly reveal itself in the diary ; keep it for only seven days . |
| 16 | The planning sub-committee of Buckinghamshire county council , which meets on Monday to consider the scheme , must inevitably confine itself to the planning application before it , and the planning issues arising from it . |
| 17 | At the lac wild-type promoter , RNA polymerase does not correctly position itself in the absence of CRP [ 14,42 ] . |
| 18 | But the basic uncertainty in the mother may well transmit itself to the child and the relationship between the two of them could be off to a shaky start . |
| 19 | Eventually , if the body lay undisturbed for long enough , the skin might even detach itself from the body . |
| 20 | In this sense , separatism does n't address itself to the business of making life better for all women , and is then restricted in large part to acting as a channel for the energy of women once they have become embittered by heterosexism . |
| 21 | On a commercial note , it may well be that the insertion of a landlord 's break will reduce the market rent obtainable for the property , a fact which will doubtless manifest itself at the time of the first rent review after the landlord 's power to break has become exercisable . |