Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] itself [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The third case resulted from the willingness and need of the firm to take work from any source while it was establishing itself in a new market . |
2 | This body was to turn itself into the Labour Party in 1906 . |
3 | In some haste he drafted a brief manifesto to show how the Conservative Party was adapting itself to the post-Reform Act political scene . |
4 | The music by which he frequently composed his poetry ( a natural continuance of a centuries-old tradition ) was asserting itself as an independent expression . |
5 | The rain was smashing itself into a two-foot-high mist above the roadway as Maxim pulled up outside Billy Dann 's house . |