Example sentences of "[vb -s] itself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has bitten ‘ us ’ , the transpersonal Gadarene motif of The Possessed , manifests itself through the dotty plan for a dinner just as eloquently as through the murder in the park . |
| 2 | As a result of the infection , the small blood-vessels supplying the skin become blocked and the resulting diminution of the blood-supply leads to local death of tissue , which manifests itself as the primary chancre . |
| 3 | One does come across entrepreneurial academics , but there is still something slightly suspect in the academic world about making , as distinct from earning , money which manifests itself in the grey area of consultancy . |
| 4 | A kind of Hispanicism Triumphant proclaims itself in the high-key paintings Rafael Ferrer makes of the landscapes and locals of his native Puerto Rico . |
| 5 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 6 | The AT&T programme , called ‘ New Art : New Visions ’ , describes itself as the first corporate effort in the U.S. to help promote recently created work by living artists , especially the work of women and ‘ artists of colour ’ , the term now used to refer to artists of the many racial minority groups vying for exhibition space and for a dwindling pool of public and corporate funds . |
| 7 | One problem with that is that the feminist movement in Europe distances itself from the mass movement . |
| 8 | The sublime back section merges itself with the boisterous front and all is similar . |
| 9 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 10 | The management prides itself on the true Italian-style home cooking served in the dining-room , and the excellent roof-top terrace affords beautiful views over Sorrento and the Gulf of Naples . |
| 11 | The project prides itself on the intensive post-placement support offered to the children by their old key workers , and to the family by the family placement worker . |
| 12 | Thus within hospitals the Alliance of Health Workers ( AHW ) has formed which as a union allies itself with the progressive national union federation . |
| 13 | There were , of course , numerous forms and methods in which this ‘ law ’ expressed itself , but the most characteristic aspect was that of the transfer of resources to the socialist sector from the private commodity sector , and this is the process that — according to Preobrazhensky — imposes itself upon the socialist sector . |
| 14 | Offers itself as the ideal means of acquiring a basic grounding in art , architecture , painting , sculpture , literature , drama and music . |
| 15 | The ambiguity of an elegy which laments the loss of constancy in relations between household and patron , and yet offers itself in the public market-place as a suit for favour , aptly characterizes the circumstances of Emilia Lanier 's life . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Bishop John Crowley writing to the priests and religious in the diocese , says : ‘ The next Synod of Bishops concerns itself with the Consecrated Life in the Church and the World . |
| 18 | The Unidroit convention ( for which the initiative was taken by Mussolini , thus making it older than Unesco , which at times performs a similar task ) , concerns itself with the legal aspects of stolen and illegally exported works of art . |
| 19 | There is also a sizeable literature on explaining the size distribution of income which concerns itself with the specific shape this takes ( positively skewed ( right-hand tail ) and leptokurtic ( hump-shaped ) or leptokurtic lognormal ) , both over different time periods and in different countries . |
| 20 | While foot-based metre(s) do display promotion , they are typically " heavier " lines , and such heaviness shows itself in the high degree of demotion ( e.g. of lexical monosyllables — blind in three blind mice ) and subordination within the line . |
| 21 | This links itself to the three previous parts because it displays a process which metaphorically or symbolically represents change . |
| 22 | Citalia prices itself on the unrivalled choice of accommodation it offers and this year the range is even further expanded with the addition of 60 new hotels . |
| 23 | That still projects itself along the rusting shaft . |
| 24 | The creature flings itself on the nearest character , crazed with pain and the desire to escape . |
| 25 | It promotes itself as the best candidate to advise the government on energy matters . |
| 26 | In all this , remember that the phenotypic effects of a gene are the tools by which it levers itself into the next generation . |
| 27 | Enquiry will focus on the social processes by which such a community , whose original members will have selected themselves , carves itself from the mainstream society , establishing demographic stability and a cultural identity . |
| 28 | Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant . |
| 29 | Second , hanging on a peg is a black robe with a monogrammed ‘ D ’ which , if put on by anyone other than Drachenfels himself , wraps itself about the unfortunate wearer and attacks with tiny mouths in its lining ; it gets 2D6 Attacks at S 2 each round . |
| 30 | The placenta detaches itself from the uterine wall and , with other material , is forced out after the baby . |