Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] itself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was pointed out that the modular nature of the new advanced provision lends itself to students choosing groups of units which , although having vocational relevance for the individual or a particular employer , do not satisfy the criteria for an existing HNC or HND . |
| 2 | ‘ What infinite variety presents itself in this enchanting spot , ’ wrote Abbot in his diary on first seeing it . |
| 3 | Confronted with the crass sexual exploitation of mainstream pop , alternative British rock shrouds itself in shapeless jumpers and stares heavenwards . |
| 4 | The methodological criterion on which our own study must be based is the following ; that the supremacy of a social group manifests itself in two ways , as ‘ domination ’ and as ‘ intellectual and moral leadership ’ . |
| 5 | What matters is not whether the human psyche is in itself constructed in grammatical terms ( as Noam Chomsky has suggested ) , but that social behaviour lends itself to analysis in broadly linguistic terms . |
| 6 | Here I lie on this crimson equatorial shore , far from where the great electronic city dissolves itself under its own photochemical smogs . |
| 7 | Direct Line prides itself on responding to 90% of enquiries within 10 seconds . |
| 8 | A semantic net lends itself to graphic display , and its meaning tends to be intuitively , if not formally , clear . |
| 9 | Yet each individual bout articulates itself within the framework of the history of boxing , known and unknown . |
| 10 | The effect of Lenin 's strategy , he warned , would be that the party substitutes itself for the class , ‘ the party organization substitutes itself for the party , the Central Committee substitutes itself for the organization and , finally , a ‘ dictator ’ substitutes himself for the Central Committee ’ . |
| 11 | There was a lot of closed , closed questions , remember that , the actual page lends itself to it er well |
| 12 | Much of the overall improvement owes itself to improving fertilizer prices and better productivity . |
| 13 | This conflictive relationship between popular culture and official culture manifests itself in Augusto Roa Bastos 's Son of Man , in the life-sized figure of Christ carved by a leper , which , despite the disapproval of the ecclesiastical authorities , is venerated by the townsfolk of Itapé in preference to the stylized crucifix in the local church . |
| 14 | What we see here is some of the work which backs up her important argument ( published elsewhere ) that the popular and fragmented nature of postmodern culture yields itself to a more positive interpretation than most of the pessimistic ( and male ) theorists of postmodernism would have us believe . |
| 15 | Figure 7.6 A territorial rufous humming-bird weighs itself by perching on a spring balance . |
| 16 | While you may gain from a long overdue cheque , you 'll lose out again when a rather large bill presents itself for payment . |
| 17 | This moving image manifests itself in the motions of the heavenly bodies . |
| 18 | And yet she was aware of something lovely somewhere , something that was gone , or hidden , or yet to be attained : she supposed her therapist would say that this unrealistic shard of broken vision dated back to her infancy , when the human animal believes itself to be omnipotent , immortal and an integral part of all that is . |
| 19 | AS THE Labour leadership congratulates itself on a virtually unprecedented exhibition of unity and moderation , they should be aware that knives are being sharpened at Conservative Central Office . |
| 20 | The budding Academy sees itself as an alternative to established institutions such as Berlin 's Akademie der Künste whose ongoing merger of the West and East branches , beset by political wrangling , has alienated many artists ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.3 ) . |
| 21 | The budding Academy sees itself as an alternative to established institutions such as Berlin 's Akademie der Künste whose ongoing merger of the West and East branches , beset by political wrangling , has alienated many artists ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.3 ) . |
| 22 | Mental impairment demonstrates itself in loss of memory for recent events , and in behavioural , cognitive and emotional change , so that the previous personality is gradually eroded . |
| 23 | Institutionalised racism manifests itself in insensitive service provision in health and social services , with barriers around language , the pattern of family names and vocabulary . |
| 24 | As Gramsci points out ( 1971 : 260 ) , ‘ the bourgeois class poses itself as an organism in continuous movement , capable of absorbing the whole society , assimilating it to its own cultural and economic level ’ , and this would-be universalizing push provides one of the most important elements in music history of the last two hundred years . |
| 25 | The Franco-German axis styles itself as the leading force in the Community and , while both countries make explicit reference to their special relationship in speeches in each other 's countries , the primacy of this alliance is clearly played down in the other countries of the EC , not least because it negates the whole point of having a community . |
| 26 | The muscular frame lends itself to ‘ strength ’ sports and is often defined as the ‘ pear shape ’ because of the wide hips . |
| 27 | The low angle means that all shadows — ours , the dogs ' , the trees ' — are long and ghostly across the ice , and the orange light wraps itself around everything so that all things seem to be part of one thing . |
| 28 | Compared with other training programmes , medical education finds itself in relatively fortunate circumstances . |
| 29 | In a striking phrase , Enzensberger suggests that ‘ artistic productivity reveals itself to be the extreme marginal case of a much more widespread productivity ’ ( ibid : 46 ) . |
| 30 | The Dutch government rids itself of the art mountain |