Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 2 | It is , of course , clear that the Report does not speak on behalf of working-class culture , but it should also be noted that it distances itself from the culture of the middle class ( cf. 236/256–7 ) . |
| 3 | I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye . |
| 4 | The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk . |
| 5 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 6 | This is a good activity for small group project work as it lends itself to the pooling of information and sharing different elements of the task . |