Example sentences of "[verb] itself to [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a rare if not unique development in Africa , President Mathieu Kerekou , who had wielded power since a coup in 1972 , agreed to abide by decisions taken by the " National Conference of Active Forces of the Nation " , which in a bold move on Feb. 25 had proclaimed itself to be a sovereign body and its decisions to be " mandatory " . |
| 2 | As will gradually become evident , the AEC has proven itself to be an unambiguous success . |
| 3 | And landlords and people of substance , who might normally offer charitable relief of their own , would certainly guard their purses as long as the government declared itself to be the great provider . |
| 4 | ICL now reckons itself to be the second largest supplier in the UK , John Bennett , ICL 's Director of Marketing Support and Communications told the audience at a recent briefing . |
| 5 | It also has certain opportunities , for example the University has already shown itself to be a leading research centre . |
| 6 | Apart from the area around Manchester , ill other regions were experiencing a steep decline in membership by 1935 , and anti-semitism now showed itself to be a viable propaganda vehicle in a particular locality ; from then on it was given special prominence . |
| 7 | In fact , if inspected more closely , it shows itself to be a rickety structure of ad hoc contrivance and ill-founded reductivist moves . |
| 8 | In a striking phrase , Enzensberger suggests that ‘ artistic productivity reveals itself to be the extreme marginal case of a much more widespread productivity ’ ( ibid : 46 ) . |
| 9 | Carrickfergus has already proved itself to be a popular commuter town with a population of over 32,500 . |
| 10 | In it , the feral mink often finds itself to be a close neighbour to vulnerable domestic stock . |
| 11 | Nonconformity no longer felt itself to be a gathered community of dissenters but part and parcel of the English Christian Church and for better or worse the architectural tradition of that Church and nation was Gothic . |
| 12 | The regime declares itself to be the only true guardian of socialism , but can offer no answer to what is happening elsewhere except to denounce foreign interference and to assert that communism must inevitably triumph . |
| 13 | Rose gave a tiny stifled scream and the third person in the bay window proved itself to be a young man by throwing back his head and shouting with laughter . |
| 14 | Spalding concludes that , with few exceptions , such as the tin miners in Bolivia , labour has been coopted by these mechanisms and not proved itself to be a revolutionary force . |
| 15 | I think it 's a great tragedy that Wales considers itself to be the poor relation within the United Reform Church and the answer can only lie within Wales ! |
| 16 | Knowing that some foreigners , and even some Germans , would worry about a possible reversion to past behaviour , it has been at pains to show itself to be a reformed character not just by these qualities of good citizenship but by its guilty conscience . |
| 17 | In Britain this attitude led to a bitter struggle between the Communists and the ILP , with each declaring itself to be the revolutionary leadership of the Left . |