Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the STJ always confined itself to veiled hints of this kind rather than anything more explicit , and since there is little or no literature available on the women 's suffrage movement in Edinburgh , it is impossible to say whether there was indeed any personal connection between the Master Printers and the " West End suffragettes . " |
| 2 | The Committee also concerned itself with other aspects of university life — the training of graduates ; the value of degrees ; the employment of graduates ; the fair consideration of the provincial graduate in competition with those from the older universities ; the participation of graduates in university affairs , in industry , in education and in the Civil Service ; student problems , welfare and accommodation ; university entrance requirements . |
| 3 | The emerging Labour movement also threw itself into local politics with enthusiasm . |
| 4 | The system created in 1945–9 — when Stalin had established a series of puppet regimes in power in the East , and Europe had become ideologically , economically and militarily divided — now unravelled itself with astonishing speed . |
| 5 | In many key directions the new radicalism now showed itself in full . |
| 6 | This theme is one which forcefully impressed itself upon Edwardian social politics , and thereafter . |
| 7 | The MIT continuously measured itself against clear performance standards . |
| 8 | Contrariwise , of course , the hostility of the former ruling dynasties , the Bourbons and Orléans , together with their connections , frequently expressed itself in adverse manoeuvres designed to embarrass , if not actually to weaken , the ‘ Fourth dynasty ’ in France . |
| 9 | Northamptonshire mumming , Shrovetide football , and " Plough Mondays " are examples of practices which were no longer encouraged and to an extent positively discouraged by a gentry which increasingly distanced itself from rude diversions and vulgar games . |
| 10 | The knowledge sent a fierce surge of possessiveness through him , which almost translated itself into violent action when he saw Isabel emerge from the inn with Ralf hovering attentively over her . |
| 11 | Aloofness and lack of democracy in Labour during the Kinnock years produced a party that was also aloof and undemocratic and publicly projected itself as such in Sheffield . |