Example sentences of "[prep] itself [prep] the [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 | It managed to sustain a comparison of itself as the resolute party to the OUP 's vacillation . |
| 3 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The subtle mind used against itself by the simple mind . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The current campaign positioning for Johnnie Walker Black has remained true to itself for the last two and a half decades . |
| 17 | For the first time since 1952 Bentley has an all-new shape to itself with the massive Continental R coupe . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Money in the drapes , and in the pottery that had a shelf to itself by the wide , dark wood staircase . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Once upon a time there was a white cloud which drifted all by itself in the clear blue sky . |