Example sentences of "[noun sg] itself [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both local associations pointed unambiguously to slavery itself as the disruptive factor ; only with emancipation would ‘ a Population of turbulent Slaves [ be ] converted into one of peaceable Colonists ’ . |
| 2 | Who then , was to determine whether or not the water came from faults and fissures in the rock , or from the vein itself in the usual manner ? |
| 3 | In chains he tells the Sanhedrin itself about the one name in heaven by which we must be saved . |
| 4 | I WAS surprised to read in the article by Harry Mead ( Echo January 17 ) and your editorial ( January 20 ) where , after a careful scrutiny of the present troubles in Northern Ireland , both of your suggested conclusions were for accepting the defeatist attitude of the greater good subordinating itself to the prevalent evil . |
| 5 | although on one level Balzac 's story is ‘ about ’ castration ( one of the characters is a castrato singer ) , in Barthes 's reading the theme of castration is seen as a pretext for a kind of reflexive anxiety on the part of the text itself concerning the very possibility of representation . |
| 6 | Just as children are very familiar with drama itself through the dramatic fictions that they see enacted on television and on film , so too they have encountered the idea of still images in other contexts : their own family snapshots , freeze frame on the video recorder , sculptures , waxworks and comic strips . |
| 7 | I found a piece of blue-grey silk for the background , to tone in with the recipient 's decor , and selected the wooden frame and the gold tones in the picture itself for the same reason . |
| 8 | ( op. at. : 6 ) Art sessions took place in the Art Room itself at the far end of the school , and Drama work happened in the hall . |
| 9 | In the half-back window the lower half of the backing is closed in , but you can see into the shop itself through the top half . |
| 10 | It behaves just like Tit for Tat itself after the first move , but — this is what makes it technically nasty — it does defect on the very first move of the game . |
| 11 | Crosby , who still has no guarantees of landing the job on a permanent basis even after guiding the club to the FA Cup Final , was concerned to see uncertainty show itself during the 2–0 defeat at Grimsby . |
| 12 | She looked a little worn and bleary-eyed , though her long , lion-coloured hair shone like health itself in the brassy sunlight of mid-day . |
| 13 | Then she did an unheard-of thing , she threw the ladle itself onto the white cloth and stalked from the room , leaving Agnes looking towards the door that had banged closed and thinking , Goodness me ! |
| 14 | My Lords , Government is not prepared to retain the land itself for the future development of what must be regarded as one of the world 's greatest libraries . |
| 15 | The Norton product is in short supply , but Transparent hopes to begin manufacturing software itself in the near future . |
| 16 | Where Methodism took hold , the force of the new puritanism was vastly more effective , largely because it attached sections of the working class itself to the moral crusade and began that polarisation of " respectable " and " rough " which was a developing feature in working-class communities in the nineteenth century . |