Example sentences of "[vb infin] itself [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as he drove himself into a last titanic effort to surface into the light , the pain began to divide and concentrate itself in three separate areas of his body ; his head , his right arm and his chest . |
| 2 | It is a system that would lend itself to any sizeable district general hospital . |
| 3 | However there was a problem which the cost-push explanation of inflation found impossible to surmount , namely , that it does not readily lend itself to rigorous empirical verification . |
| 4 | If it is denied or suppressed in some way , it will become a recurring experience , or it will convert itself into some other disorder of the body , emotion or behaviour . |
| 5 | Pohl has also specifically mentioned that Austria could easily annex itself to this monetary union since it has pegged the schilling to the Deutschmark for years . |
| 6 | AT&T should split itself into two separate companies , one to manufacture equipment , the other to provide telephone calls . |
| 7 | The idea that a presumption about the future has an effect upon that future is true and obviously commonplace in the social world ( see the self-fulfilling prophecy argument ) : how did it manifest itself in this particular case ? |
| 8 | If it did not manifest itself in this particular way , however , Aethelbald 's power was none the less real . |
| 9 | It is not surprising then , if over several months , this oversight should reveal itself in these small but telling ways . |
| 10 | The military bureaucracy must constantly justify itself by discovering' military threats to US security , which do not , in reality , exist . |
| 11 | Furthermore , it recognized that because it could not supply such high quality weaponry as the United States , and because communism did not commend itself to most Arab regimes , the Soviet-Arab bond was bound to remain weaker than the American-Israeli one . |
| 12 | However a third party may find itself without any available forum in which to present its substantive claims . |
| 13 | It is particularly sad that CERN should find itself in this strange confrontation ; the laboratory offers the best model for centralised multinational science there is . |
| 14 | This chapter will concern itself with two basic approaches to evaluation by outsiders : the measurement of the ‘ products ’ or ‘ outcomes ’ of schooling , for example , through testing programmes ; the independent observation of the processes of schooling by outsiders , for example by inspectors . |
| 15 | Since households and families are not autonomous units , the study will also concern itself with wide social and economic structures and concepts . |
| 16 | A book concerned with the influence of fiction upon taste in architecture and furnishing would properly concern itself with those lesser imaginations , because they popularize what they reflect . |