Example sentences of "[vb -s] itself [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He clearly favours a state which involves itself essentially through monetary transaction rather than direct intervention in other more qualitative spheres of life . |
| 2 | ( 4 ) This plays itself out in spatial terms in the restructuration of the centre of our great cities and the creation of a large group of central-city dwelling ‘ yuppies ’ among the post-industrial middle classes . |
| 3 | Perhaps it goes through a tunnel and squirts itself out into another universe somewhere else . |
| 4 | This shows itself both in musical content — the impact of ragtime , jazz , Tin Pan Alley songs , new dance forms , and so on — and in new methods of mass production , publicity and distribution : in short , a drive towards ‘ one-way communication ’ in homogeneous markets . |
| 5 | The antipathy to any large-scale popular participation in running public affairs , which shows itself constantly in many more forms than those which I have mentioned here by way of illustration , has been incorporated in several different ways into political science . |
| 6 | Although its giant neighbour , Ben Alder , can be viewed from the A9 at the top of Loch Ericht , and the peak further west along its ridge , Aonach Beag , can be seen briefly from the A86 if you 're not fishing about for an extra strong mint in the glove compartment , Carn Dearg reveals itself only to those prepared to sweat a bit . |
| 7 | But for one zany week in March , the place sheds its stay-at-home Cinderella rags , paints its face and gets itself up in motley as Clown Town . |
| 8 | A council statement endorsed by Mr Pignatelli , Mr McGrath and Neil McIntosh , Strathclyde 's chief executive , said : ‘ The council dissociates itself totally from any view which links genetic theory and race in such a way . |
| 9 | In the wild , it confines itself mainly to unaimed throwing and the brandishing of sticks . |
| 10 | Laverne is launched into the still treacle of pond water which reluctantly draws itself up like sluggish curtains to receive this intrusion . |
| 11 | ‘ Yet we all without exception share a subtler and ambivalent genetic flaw , which expresses itself not in branching bones but in our very behaviour . |
| 12 | H. Granville-Barker , reviewing Chambers 's work , recognizes both the limitations of " science " ( " no art lends itself wholly to scientific methods of criticism and research " ) and the " magnanimity of true learning " which " scorns special pleading , comes charily to conclusions , opens every path by which the reader may reach his own . |
| 13 | The flexibility of SCOTVEC 's provision lends itself well to European projects in many ways : |
| 14 | Her medium is gouache and watercolour which lends itself well to graphic reproduction . |
| 15 | Crataegus , or hawthorn , makes a dense hedge which lends itself well to severe formal trimming |
| 16 | That relation , as we have seen in the study of the parallelism of greater precision , is a dynamic one which can not be mechanically delineated , but which often yields itself only to patient exegetical probing , each couplet in its own right . |