Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] itself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As will gradually become evident , the AEC has proven itself to be an unambiguous success . |
| 2 | The Legal Aid Board has said itself to be impressed with the contribution of law centres to the provision of legal services in the areas they serve . |
| 3 | A stone age management opportunity has revealed itself to the Directors of AIB Bank plc in Britain . |
| 4 | LOSERS : The Financial Times , which was slow off the mark in exposing Labour 's tax plans and by declaring for Labour has shown itself to be as pink as its paper . |
| 5 | Labour has committed itself to a wide range of civil-liberties legislation and constitutional reform when it returns to government , to counter what its Deputy Leader , Mr Hattersley , has described as the vulnerability of traditional freedoms to the dual threat of ‘ legal restriction and a cynical partnership between Government and private enterprise ’ . |
| 6 | One strand of modern research has devoted itself to the ferociously difficult task of building formal models that precisely state the conditions that are necessary and sufficient for competition to work , and describe whether and in what sense the result is ‘ efficient ’ . |
| 7 | But as ENDS magazine pointed out , by February 1990 the electricity industry had committed itself to only one third of this : 4,000 MW of FGD . |
| 8 | The institute has committed itself to continuing to offer practical help and communication expertise as long as it is needed in the recovery process . |
| 9 | YORK City Council has proved itself to be one of the region 's most innovative local authorities . |
| 10 | The widow 's eye make-up had transferred itself to Marilyn Thompson 's handkerchief . |
| 11 | It had simply lost its way in terms of product innovation , the area in which Habitat had demonstrated itself to be supreme . |
| 12 | Not that her cousin 's health had relapsed , or anything like that , but her mood had communicated itself to the twins , who 'd been particularly fractious and difficult . |
| 13 | Disproportionately she had longed , in the interminable wastes of adolescence , in the grey and monotonous steppes , and some of the longing had attached itself to this night , this one night of the year , when others ( she knew from school friends , from the radio , from novels ) , when others went to parties and celebrated whatever was about to be . |
| 14 | There was a wealth of passion in him , but whether — perhaps because of her very limited experience in these matters — something of her shyness had communicated itself to him or not , he had seemed to temper his passion , for the moment , to suit hers . |
| 15 | In 1931 he stated : the moment the responsibilities of any community , particularly in the field of social and economic questions , are shifted from any part of the nation to Washington , then that community has subjected itself to a remote bureaucracy . |
| 16 | Essentially the court is concerned whether the decision-making body has addressed itself to all relevant factors . |
| 17 | Will the whole population have to submit itself to tests of their suitability to have children ? |
| 18 | The tempo of a summer 's day had adjusted itself to the measured progress of the tournament through the placid dunes and sandhills . |
| 19 | The hon. Member for Sunderland , South ( Mr. Mullin ) might have mentioned that the local health authority has committed itself to eliminating all waiting lists of more than 12 months by the end of this calendar year . |
| 20 | His own terrible fear and anger had communicated itself to his father and shown him what the better part of valour was : keeping silent . |
| 21 | On the slow descent to Bristol airport a creature had attached itself to one of the wings . |
| 22 | What the procedure does not permit is an exploration of alternative approaches , an understanding of the views of outside groups ( unless they think it worth briefing MPs ) and there is no scope for public opinion to form and react before the government has committed itself to a definite approach to the problem . |
| 23 | You may know that the Government has committed itself to producing a National Sustainability Plan by the end of this year , for submission to the United Nations Sustainable Development Commission . |
| 24 | The government has committed itself to reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 . |
| 25 | For the first time in peace , the US government had committed itself to a firm military alliance . |
| 26 | Jaguar had felt itself to be protected from such a takeover by a golden share ( a mechanism whereby the government provides protection from takeover to recently privatised companies for a finite period of time ) . |
| 27 | Future Labour Government 's committed itself to doing that , and I would suggest that the Secretary of State should do it , because we 're not guaranteed to receive that money at all . |
| 28 | The world has committed itself to providing water and sanitation for all by the year 1990 . |
| 29 | The Tribunal noted that Ulster Bank has committed itself to remaining the major centre for development of Information Technology and notes the Bank 's assurance that it will expand and improve the facilities . |
| 30 | Market related pricing has shown itself to be effective in ensuring that consumers are aware of the real value of the resources they use , not only as it affects energy consumption but also in the realms of energy efficiency investment . |