Example sentences of "[prep] itself [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apex ( tip ) of the shoot continues growth by mobilising food and water towards itself from the older tissues behind . |
| 2 | Identification is a process which occurs when the ego , in part abandoning its awareness of itself as a separate entity , equates itself , or some aspect of itself , with some external thing . |
| 3 | Then , as now , the Conservative Party in the 1950s liked to think of itself as a lonely beacon of responsibility in a moral wilderness of couldn't-care-less ‘ permissiveness ’ and selfish ‘ I 'm all right Jack ’ attitudes . |
| 4 | It managed to sustain a comparison of itself as the resolute party to the OUP 's vacillation . |
| 5 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 6 | In case we become aware of its tricks , the Ego tries to throw us off the scent , by projecting aspects of itself onto the outside world . |
| 7 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |
| 8 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 9 | However , despite its diminutive size , it is well able to fend for itself in a mixed community tank , protecting its territory against all comers , even if they happen to be twice its size . |
| 10 | Ruling groups have found that their interests are best safeguarded if they are supported by a work force which can not think for itself in the coherent way writing affords . |
| 11 | Having dug its way out of the compost heap , it must immediately start to fend for itself in the hostile world of the mallee scrub . |
| 12 | The firm badly needs this market share to buy time , so it can fully adapt to the new Windows world and carve out a place for itself in the growing groupware market . |
| 13 | The subtle mind used against itself by the simple mind . |
| 14 | It 's like a B-movie from a past of happier memories , turned against itself by the one British director who truly understands the mode . |
| 15 | Erm there is a disused aer aerodrome in this area , but it is in in itself to a great ex extent assimilated into the farmland around the area . |
| 16 | He was proud to serve with the magnificent troops of this Division — Rajputs , Baluchis , Punjabis and Gurkhas amongst others — and to belong to an army given new pride and confidence in itself by an inspiring leader . |
| 17 | Fearful for its own survival , the imperial house skilfully diverted the frenzy and hatred away from itself towards the foreign presence in China and gave the movement tacit encouragement . |
| 18 | er the E C has really bought upon itself with the common agricultural policy a big animal that is very slow to move and it 's not really any advantages of each individual . |
| 19 | What has happened is that something latent within us has been stirred to new life , and that scent , or whatever , has been the symbolic object for us , leading us beyond itself to a personal memory . |
| 20 | It would seem that imagination rightly directed enables the extension of meaning which is involved in the Incarnation ; but as the Incarnation points beyond itself in the risen and ascended Christ , so imaginative knowledge of God is transcended by a more purely spiritual experience . |
| 21 | In between these two new efforts sits Filip 's Advanced Workstations & Systems which has , he notes , taken unto itself over the last year all the ingredients needed to be a stand-alone company bar a dedicated sales force . |
| 22 | The current campaign positioning for Johnnie Walker Black has remained true to itself for the last two and a half decades . |
| 23 | For the first time since 1952 Bentley has an all-new shape to itself with the massive Continental R coupe . |
| 24 | But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board . |
| 25 | Barro is making the perfectly valid point that when the government incurs debt by issuing bonds it is acting as a mere go between on behalf of the private sector : the private sector is becoming more indebted to itself through the financial intermediation of the government . |
| 26 | Money in the drapes , and in the pottery that had a shelf to itself by the wide , dark wood staircase . |
| 27 | Then , through the emergence of conscious mind in the world , the Absolute Geist returns to itself in a new kind of self-awareness ( the synthesis ) . |
| 28 | A wafer thin translucent something undulated through the air towards her , chuckling gently to itself in a liquid voice . |
| 29 | But finally a muddy old train trundles in from deepest Essex , chattering to itself like the Little Red Engine : ‘ I 'm a good little engine , I climbed over the hill . ’ |
| 30 | An isolationist king means that the land of Ulthuan can turn in on itself for a thousand years or more . |