Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rolt warns that this is not so because that spirit can only express itself in creative activities in which work and leisure are facets of one whole . |
| 2 | The military bureaucracy must constantly justify itself by discovering' military threats to US security , which do not , in reality , exist . |
| 3 | Private behaviour was viewed by the Committee as the personal and private responsibility of the individual , and the law , it was argued , should only concern itself with those activities which constituted offences against ‘ public order and decency ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since households and families are not autonomous units , the study will also concern itself with wide social and economic structures and concepts . |
| 6 | It can pretend it is using colour film from 50 to 400 ASA , which will keep most happy snappers occupied , but does n't really lend itself to low-light photography or sports . |
| 7 | The West must now steel itself for military action in Bosnia |
| 8 | The self-contained social circle of most farmers , commented upon in Chapter 3 , does not particularly lend itself to such empathy , but farmers will ignore the aspirations of the other 97 per cent of the population at their peril — and so , for that matter , will conservationists . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | First and foremost has been the belief that the European Economic Community should primarily concern itself with economic matters . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Douglas Hurd 's announcement on Friday that he will try to tighten up the law relating to the licensing of these parties should certainly address itself to that aspect of the problem . |