Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] itself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company , which has pretty much limited itself to the German market so far , is also looking to peddle its suite of software products across the border , in France , and is currently courting French distributors . |
| 2 | In fact there was precious little to rely on in the unconscious unless the product was good enough to sell itself to the conscious senses , in which case the unconscious appeal was superfluous . |
| 3 | It constantly adjusts itself to the correct tension as the string is being wrapped . |
| 4 | She had none of the fears of the normal servant that her honesty might ever be in doubt and her absolute conviction of her own integrity had finally communicated itself to the old man and been conceded by him . |
| 5 | Newcastle 's natural nervousness soon reasserted itself for the French had clearly not abandoned their plan and had even managed to bring the transports at Nantes , on the River Loire , to join those further up the coast at Vannes in the Gulf of Morbihan , about midway between St Nazaire and Lorient . |
| 6 | I was hoping that my indecision might somehow communicate itself to The Fat Controller . |
| 7 | And since the effect would be to put off the catastrophe indefinitely , since Capitalism could now continue by reason of policies which provided also a solution to the problem of unemployment , Empirical Socialism need no longer distinguish itself from the Marxist version solely by the method and pace of change , by being evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 8 | Metrogel received marketing authorisation in Britain in December 1991 and was launched by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals , Bioglan 's licensee , in April 1992 ; it has already established itself as the leading topical treatment for rosacea in Britain . |
| 9 | The grounds for relief were , inter alia , that Lautro failed to comply with the rules of natural justice and to act fairly in that it failed before the service of the notice to inform the applicant or Winchester of the allegations being made therein , failed to allow Winchester or its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised company representatives the opportunity of answering or responding to the allegations made against them , failed to take into account the interest of Winchester , its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised representatives when deciding to exercise the notice ; that Lautro acted unreasonably and came to a decision such that no person or body properly directing itself on the relevant law and acting reasonably could have reached in that it acted with bias against Winchester and its officials , issued the notice at a time its investigations were incomplete and on the basis of findings which were erroneous and provisional , and failed to conclude its investigations before serving the notice ; and that Lautro acted ultra vires and in error of law in that the rights of appeal applied to any person subject to the rules of Lautro whether or not members . |
| 10 | To burst it now would be to risk the messiness of it re-grouping , possibly cloning itself across the infected area and returning in a small battalion . |
| 11 | Five days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 Turkey had unequivocally placed itself in the anti-Iraq camp with a series of economic sanctions ( including the blocking of the pipelines which were Iraq 's principal route for the export of oil ) which were to prove crucial , as Turkey was one of Iraq 's major trading partners [ see p. 37641 ] . |
| 12 | The team was able to win some very prestigious senior assignments during this time , deliberately dissociating itself from the wholesale movement of dealing and broking teams , an aspect of search of which GKR strongly disapprove . |
| 13 | Gradually the technique develops its own style , moving away from red-figure as red-figure had early freed itself from the black figure tradition ; only white-ground long remains no more than a sideline of red-figure painters . |
| 14 | It responds to this helpful adjustment by promptly inverting itself into the mock-dead posture . |
| 15 | That still projects itself along the rusting shaft . |
| 16 | Japan has always prided itself in the high quality of its water supply . |
| 17 | Not until Aug. 7 did Turkey unequivocally place itself in the anti-Iraqi camp , with its decision ( coinciding with a similar decision by Saudi Arabia — see above ) to block the pipelines , to ban Iraqi and Kuwaiti trade ( except supplies of medicines and food ) and to freeze assets . |
| 18 | In adopting this chic mode of expression , the nouveau riche was effectively distinguishing itself from the traditional middle classes while at the same time flaunting the fact that it had connoisseurship and taste . |
| 19 | IBM also finds itself at the wrong end of several historical trends . |
| 20 | But then a sociology of culture must also concern itself with the social relations of its specific means of production . |
| 21 | Unlike their predecessors they were at home in French , now establishing itself as the pre-eminent diplomatic language , and cultivated contacts with foreigners . |
| 22 | In Zimbabwe today , education must fundamentally orient itself towards the revolutionary transformation now taking place in many spheres of our society . |
| 23 | It was a box , shaking itself madly to free itself of the smashed timber around it . |
| 24 | This group , as well as the anti-nuclear movement itself , was strongly influenced by members of Revolutionary Struggle , an extreme left-wing group which mixed neo-Marxist economic analysis with traditional republican ideology and was strongly influenced itself by the revolutionary movement in Italy and , to a lesser extent , France , at the time . |
| 25 | This area — even if he had been a total stranger to the city , and know nothing of its history , would have immediately advertised itself as the red-light district — even the very air seemed tainted by the smells of cheap perfume and sex . |
| 26 | Fortunately , the German spirit that found expression in the Reformation , and with it gave rise to the first German music , has never yet fully lost itself in the dominant Alexandrianism . |
| 27 | In this country we call it Medau Breathing Movement , and by ‘ breathing movement ’ we mean internal movement of the trunk , which starts with the rising and falling of the diaphragm and then communicates itself to the abdominal walls , pelvic floor , the whole back and as far as the collar bone . |
| 28 | The problem for the marketing function of a potential supplier will eventually resolve itself into the specific issue of how to promote and sell the product to the Decision Making Unit . |
| 29 | It was not until 1962 , when the Organisation of American States resolved that Cuba had voluntarily placed itself outside the inter-American system , that Castro — finding a temperamental and ideological disposition backed up by pressing security considerations — switched his energies to the export of revolution on a more substantial level . |
| 30 | The ambiguity of an elegy which laments the loss of constancy in relations between household and patron , and yet offers itself in the public market-place as a suit for favour , aptly characterizes the circumstances of Emilia Lanier 's life . |