Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] itself [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A choice of dates is available from which to reckon the life of the College : 1 8 February 1791 , when the London committee decided to call itself The Veterinary College , London , and 8 April 1791 , when the president , vice-presidents and directors were elected and the statutes and regulations were approved .
2 On March 11 it voted to proclaim itself a sovereign body whose decisions would be binding and not subject to government authority .
3 Malta had proclaimed itself a neutral state with a policy strictly founded on principles of non-alignment in 1981 .
4 The attack came shortly after a " committee of public salvation " , led by hardline Latvian CP leader Alfred Rubiks , had proclaimed itself a rival government to that of President Anatolijs Gorbunovs .
5 It was on this basis of this rationality , embodied in modern science and technology , that cette vielle Europe had triumphed throughout the world , had made itself the universal point of reference .
6 Acting president Kadreddin Aslonov , appointed after the Aug. 31 resignation of Kakhar Makhkamov because of the coup [ see p. 38373 ] , issued on Sept. 22 a decree banning the activities of the Communist Party of Tajikistan ( which on Sept. 21 had renamed itself the Socialist Party of Tajikistan ) and nationalizing its property .
7 It had asked itself the wrong question when interpreting one of the ‘ X ’ questions in the empowering statute .
8 Any mistake of law would mean that the authority had asked itself the wrong question , which would result in a jurisdictional error .
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