Example sentences of "[verb] itself [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Pinnacle , which currently offers a Sparc 2 CPU board , will leverage its experience in the Sun spares , repair and trade-in hardware business — combined with the SunSoft deal — to launch itself in to the compatible market proper , backed by a hefty advertisement campaign . |
2 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
3 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
4 | Left hemisphere control of sequential motor activity which lent itself readily to a symbolic gestural system may have been the evolutionary precursor to present day lateralisation of language . |
5 | Perhaps for this reason , it rarely commits itself entirely to a humanist framework . |
6 | The patriot had already locked itself on to an Iraqi scud aimed at a Saudi airbase . |
7 | It had quietened itself down to a low , continuous burble . |
8 | The feel of him inside her spread warmth through every part of her until her body relaxed completely and gave itself up to the purest pleasure . |
9 | In the increasingly popular idiom of so-called ‘ performance arts ’ actors and audiences revel in non-verbal excesses in the belief that such behaviour addresses itself directly to the human soul and that all other forms of traditional theatre are disgustingly ‘ literary ’ . |
10 | The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented . |
11 | The assessment of this module lends itself readily to an integrated assignment where evidence may be generated which is appropriate for more than one outcome . |
12 | I had no idea that what was happening was my body trying to bring itself up to a natural weight rather than the unnatural , low one that I kept it at . |
13 | ( Here , in — and im — represent the same grammatical element : the prefix merely adapts itself phonetically to the initial consonant of the root . ) |