Example sentences of "[vb -s] itself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | IBM also finds itself at the wrong end of several historical trends . |
| 32 | To my personal embarrassment to the extent that I was a party to the majority of the decisions to which I have referred , I have to say that I think that this court again finds itself in the same position . |
| 33 | The tRNA attaches itself to the appropriate amino acid . |
| 34 | This messenger RNA ( mRNA ) leaves the nucleus , enters the cytoplasm and attaches itself to the ribosome . |
| 35 | His new work attaches itself to the ready-made tradition , taking the theme of laziness into ‘ a la recherche du temps perdu ’ . |
| 36 | He has always recognized the sweetness of an apple as a reason for choosing it , although a sinful one ; with the lapse of the standard which condemns it , it asserts itself as the only relevant consideration . |
| 37 | She squeezes again , and this time a great glob of Teint Naturel extrudes itself from the narrow aperture on to her middle finger . |
| 38 | In paranoid disorders however , it is the son 's passive relation to the father that threatens to unman him , and this expresses itself in the characteristic symptom of paranoia — delusions produced by the mechanism of projection . |
| 39 | The bush welds itself to the primary shaft and will not disengage . |
| 40 | The main thesis of the existentialist approach is that in order to elucidate the full significance of ontological claims conveyed by existential propositions we ought to begin by focusing attention upon the one for whom the " problem of existence " presents itself in the first instance as a problem of his own existence . |
| 41 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 42 | An oily film on top of her cafe au lait resolves itself into the faint image of a face . |
| 43 | When a solute is soluble in two immiscible liquids , the solute distributes itself between the two liquids . |
| 44 | The break with this structure of belonging can be announced only through a certain organisation , a certain strategic arrangement which , within the field of metaphysical opposition , uses the strengths of the field to turn its own stratagems against it , producing a force of dislocation that spreads itself throughout the entire system , fissuring it in every direction and thoroughly delimiting it . |
| 45 | It constantly adjusts itself to the correct tension as the string is being wrapped . |
| 46 | Its secondary antennae have become adapted , forming claws with which it digs in and fastens itself to the delicate gill lamellae . |
| 47 | Mainframes still garnered the largest portion — 36.7% — of hardware revenues for the company , which bills itself as the open systems supplier , down from 44.8% last time around . |
| 48 | This simply means that the normal 8-hour duty shift is split ; for example , 4 hours on duty , 2 hours off duty , then 4 hours on duty , or 4 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the evening , or whatever combination lends itself to the efficient running of the hotel . |
| 49 | This fatalism lends itself to the infamous Burmese bureaucracy , partly because bureaucracy looks like efficiency , partly because bureaucracy fits so neatly into the unchanging Buddhist worldview . |
| 50 | In this country we call it Medau Breathing Movement , and by ‘ breathing movement ’ we mean internal movement of the trunk , which starts with the rising and falling of the diaphragm and then communicates itself to the abdominal walls , pelvic floor , the whole back and as far as the collar bone . |