Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] itself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 2 | That is , where the Berlin Secession defined itself against the Wilhelmine state , its Viennese counterpart defined itself against the bourgeois values of the Ringstrasse culture of the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 3 | The management prides itself on the true Italian-style home cooking served in the dining-room , and the excellent roof-top terrace affords beautiful views over Sorrento and the Gulf of Naples . |
| 4 | While foot-based metre(s) do display promotion , they are typically " heavier " lines , and such heaviness shows itself in the high degree of demotion ( e.g. of lexical monosyllables — blind in three blind mice ) and subordination within the line . |
| 5 | His new work attaches itself to the ready-made tradition , taking the theme of laziness into ‘ a la recherche du temps perdu ’ . |
| 6 | With that strength of support coming from far and near , the South Ronaldsay Parents Action Committee launched itself into the mammoth task it faced . |
| 7 | That is , where the Berlin Secession defined itself against the Wilhelmine state , its Viennese counterpart defined itself against the bourgeois values of the Ringstrasse culture of the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 8 | A starling anointing itself with the defensive fluids of an ant . |
| 9 | Over the ensuing months the Iranian government gained sufficient confidence to reassert itself in the disaffected province whereas the Soviets appeared to lose their nerve and sense of direction . |
| 10 | At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 11 | After the defection of members like John Strachey and Harold Nicolson , Mosley 's movement relaunched itself as the British Union of Fascists on I October 1932 . |
| 12 | The Franco-German axis styles itself as the leading force in the Community and , while both countries make explicit reference to their special relationship in speeches in each other 's countries , the primacy of this alliance is clearly played down in the other countries of the EC , not least because it negates the whole point of having a community . |
| 13 | As well as updating its RISC System/6000 series with new machines designed specifically for commercial , technical and parallel computing markets ( UX No 420 ) , the company last week pitched itself into the thick of the Unix workstation price war with the introduction of a sub-$4,000 offering . |
| 14 | In the urge to protect itself for the negative battles of the present , the party thus pulled back from its only truly positive policy for the future . |
| 15 | It is pleasant to see the same easy charm , quiet confidence and obliging manner re-establish itself in the new generation of ownership . |
| 16 | Whereas the nineteenth-century state concerned itself with the common affairs of all capital owners , the growth of giant industrial corporations and of large financial combines has now led to the almost complete exclusion of other capitalist fractions from influence over the state . |
| 17 | Thus within hospitals the Alliance of Health Workers ( AHW ) has formed which as a union allies itself with the progressive national union federation . |
| 18 | The truth is that the social sciences reflected the pre-conceptions and problems of bourgeois liberalism in its classic form , which was not found in Germany , where bourgeois society inserted itself into the Bismarckian framework of aristocrats and bureaucrats . |
| 19 | What they may not have realised is that that message conveyed itself to the American public ! |
| 20 | Indeed , while with one hand trying to hold down expenditure by local authorities , the Government found itself by the late 1980s involved with the other hand in massive ear-marked spending on inner urban areas . |
| 21 | He had just persuaded the Operative Builders Union to restructure itself as the Grand National Guild of Builders . |
| 22 | The tRNA attaches itself to the appropriate amino acid . |
| 23 | If , however , they were unlucky enough to meet wet weather and the harvest extended itself over the stated month , then they might well find themselves working in the fifth week without drawing any extra money . |
| 24 | Marxism invented itself as the proper understanding of the nature of history seen from the perspective of labour , and should therefore have become the perspective and consciousness of labour . |
| 25 | The project prides itself on the intensive post-placement support offered to the children by their old key workers , and to the family by the family placement worker . |
| 26 | The conventions , or unwritten rules , of the constitution were seen as of crucial significance since they secured " in a roundabout way what is called abroad the " sovereignty of the people " " thus making for a governmental system in which " the will of the electors shall by regular and constitutional means always in the end assert itself as the predominant influence in the country " . |
| 27 | The bush welds itself to the primary shaft and will not disengage . |
| 28 | This simply means that the normal 8-hour duty shift is split ; for example , 4 hours on duty , 2 hours off duty , then 4 hours on duty , or 4 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the evening , or whatever combination lends itself to the efficient running of the hotel . |
| 29 | The snow was falling thickly and poured past the window in blizzard proportions as the plane hurled itself into the Arctic night . |
| 30 | The severe straits in which the Treasury found itself after the Crimean War made it seem quite impractical to seek a solution which involved increasing the duties of officialdom . |