Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] itself [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) . |
| 2 | By looking after its past employees , the army sought to position itself as a caring organisation which would encourage new recruits . |
| 3 | In time , academic anthropology became less directly associated with evolutionary ideas , and it tried to establish itself as a respectable , if not conservative , branch of the social sciences . |
| 4 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 5 | Enver Hoxha 's widow Nexhmije Hoxha , who had headed the Communist-dominated Democratic Front until December 1990 , but who had subsequently been expelled from the party as it sought to rid itself of the hardline old guard , was arrested on Dec. 4 to stand trial for corruption , as was Rita Marko , a politburo member for 34 years until July 1990 . |
| 6 | The Socialist League began to find itself in the same critical relationship with the Labour Party which had forced its predecessor , the ILP , to disaffiliate . |
| 7 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 8 | Civic Alliance , a coalition of extra-parliamentary opposition groups , played a major role in the anti-government strikes and protests , and in July 1991 Civic Alliance decided to transform itself into a political party . |
| 9 | The Patriotic People 's Front ( PPF ) , the umbrella grouping which had comprised the HSWP and other parties represented in the government before liberalization measures were introduced , decided to dissolve itself at a national conference in May 1990 following the poor election result . |
| 10 | The religious divisions also hardened to a considerable extent into national ones ; Catholicism not only held firm in southern Europe but extended itself northward , Lutheranism failed to root itself outside the Teutonic lands , while Calvinism spread in a long thin arc from Scotland , through France and the Netherlands to Poland and Hungary . |
| 11 | In Azerbaijan the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region voted to establish itself as an independent republic with the support of 99.9 per cent of those who took part in a referendum on the matter , and applied to join the newly-established Commonwealth of Independent States ; Azerbaijan , for its part , voted to abolish the region entirely , renamed its capital city and placed the whole area under the control of a military governor . |
| 12 | His hair had formed itself into an interesting anthill kind of a shape though . |
| 13 | The tempo of a summer 's day had adjusted itself to the measured progress of the tournament through the placid dunes and sandhills . |
| 14 | For the first time in peace , the US government had committed itself to a firm military alliance . |
| 15 | ( Italy had committed itself to a smaller margin of fluctuation within the EMS in January 1990 — see p. 37198 . ) |
| 16 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 17 | The first indeed had presented itself as no more than vivid memory , though — if she were honest with herself — she would admit it had arisen from a kind of fear . |
| 18 | Palme Dutt and Pollitt , presenting a minority report to the Comintern Congress , argued that the Labour Party , by its restrictions on Communist membership , affiliation and cooperation , had transformed itself into a typical " social fascist " organisation . |
| 19 | By 1810 the legal government of independent Spain ( which had transformed itself from a Central Junta , composed of delegates from the Provincial Juntas , into a Regency ) was cooped up in Cadiz surrounded by a French army ; there it sought to find the sinews of war and to regularize the constitutional position by summoning a Cortes which met on 24 September 1810 . |
| 20 | This betrayal appears to have provoked a large-scale opposition — as it were , an alternative ‘ fundamentalist ’ priesthood , militantly at odds with the established one which had prostituted itself to an illegitimate king . |
| 21 | But even the French navy had to divide itself between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coasts and the Russians had to maintain a small separate fleet in the Black Sea . |
| 22 | Scotland had re-established itself as an independent nation . |
| 23 | It was yielding some ore but had found itself amongst the old bottoms out of which " the eyes had been picked " . |
| 24 | Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission . |
| 25 | The popular explanation of his condition was that his mother , in late pregnancy , had been knocked over by a runaway circus elephant , and the shock had imprinted itself on the unborn child . |
| 26 | I sat up weakly one morning , and the ship 's cabin had transmuted itself into a little square room in an isolated town in South America . |
| 27 | Despite its shattering defeat in 1931 the Labour Party had established itself as the dominant political force opposed to the Conservative Party , as the unchallenged controller of local government on the major coalfields and as the Party to which the great majority of trade-union officials gave their loyalty . |
| 28 | Visigothic architecture had established itself before the Moslem invasion and was flourishing from c. 450–720 . |
| 29 | Among the smaller opposition parties the JCP fought a largely defensive campaign in which it attempted to dissociate itself from the discredited communist regimes of Eastern Europe . |
| 30 | But it did not , at any rate for the peasantry , which on the whole refused to turn itself into a flourishing class of commercial farmers even when it had the chance to do so . |