Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or the shift from ‘ producer capitalism ’ to consumer capitalism , in which , for example , the moment of distribution has come to assert itself versus the moment of production . |
| 2 | In a properly organized political community the state exists for society and not society for the state ; yet , however socially advanced a people may be , the society which it constitutes made up of families , clubs , churches , trade unions , etc. — is not to be trusted to maintain itself without the ultimate arbitrament of force . |
| 3 | The rich North Italian industrial city of Turin has decided to put itself on the international map with a biennial art and antiques fair to be held at the Lingotto , the spectacular former Fiat car factory , from 27 February to 7 March . |
| 4 | The EC Monitor Mission ( ECMM ) had decided to base itself in the RSK town of Knin , having withdrawn from Sarajevo in May . |
| 5 | By Christmas 1985 the DoE publicly sought to distance itself from the CEGB video , acknowledging that ‘ the film attempts to minimise the British contribution to acid deposition in Norway when it is much the largest . ’ |
| 6 | The hyperpluralist perspective may have sought to distance itself from the pluralist perspective on British politics , but there is much in common between the two orientations . |
| 7 | The National Party government sought to distance itself from the day 's events . |
| 8 | In Lobophytum species , the process is not particularly dramatic ; the polyps withdraw , the body of the animal will deflate , looking as though it has collapsed , and then when it takes in fresh water to stiffen up again , a thin , transparent layer of mucus can be seen detaching itself from the surface of the coral , to be swept away by water currents , the whole process usually taking a few hours . |
| 9 | Of course it would have been difficult for intellectuals to admit that it was precisely their own condemnation and neglect of films which had removed the one buffer that the film industry could have used to protect itself from the onslaught of ‘ the Meddlers and Busybodies ’ . |
| 10 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 11 | Precisely because the Church mistakes herself for the present form of the Kingdom , God 's rule has often had to manifest itself in the secular world outside , and frequently against , the Church ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:78 ) . |
| 12 | It was announced on Sept. 23 that the Eagle Party had agreed to subsume itself within the NDC in support of the candidacy of Rawlings ( the national congress of the Eagle Party having itself asked Rawlings on Sept. 13 to be its presidential candidate ) . |
| 13 | Classicism is now forced to defend itself against the onslaught of a disruptive non-classical culture with the result that the contemporary cultural sphere has polarised into two competing ideological positions which , for the sake of clarity , have been tabulated in Table 6.1 . |
| 14 | Let us leave the last words with Walter Abish who declares that ‘ the innovative novel is , in essence , a novel of disfamiliarization , a novel that has ceased to concern itself with the mapping of the ‘ familiar ’ world ’ ( Martin 1983 : 238 ) . |
| 15 | One IWC official has pointed out that , since Norway formally objected to the moratorium when originally passed in 1982 , it is allowed to exempt itself from the terms . |
| 16 | When the virus takes over a cell it takes over the master-plan or system of instruction of that cell and the cell is thereafter directed to reproduce itself with the virus already in command . |
| 17 | The Irish Government was resolutely determined to rid itself of the British system which had done so much harm to the economy . |
| 18 | The Profumo affair was merely the focus and catalyst for the coming to a head of that revolution in the mood and character of English life which had begun to show itself in the late summer of 1955 . |
| 19 | America had managed to extract itself from the quicksand at last . |
| 20 | In this connection the whole of the local Komsomol press was ordered to put itself under the leadership of the party guberniia committees . |
| 21 | However , as a Party it has managed to project itself as the supporter of law and order , and simultaneously to construct the parties of opposition as the supporters of disorder , misrule and irresponsibility . |
| 22 | Twenty-ninth August — the German Army has managed to get itself across the Seine and , according to the news at the Brigade H.Q , 4th Commando Brigade has joined in the pursuit . |