Example sentences of "[vb pp] itself [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , the search for ‘ a ’ cure for cancer has resolved itself into a large number of separate questions , many of which have still to be solved . |
| 2 | It seems to have finally resolved itself into an increased interest in practical deterrence and street-level prevention programmes . |
| 3 | Had separatism confined itself to a political context , then however violent the discussion , its impact and effects would not have been a fraction of what they are . |
| 4 | The team may have resigned itself to a fixtureless season but there is some small consolation . |
| 5 | What the procedure does not permit is an exploration of alternative approaches , an understanding of the views of outside groups ( unless they think it worth briefing MPs ) and there is no scope for public opinion to form and react before the government has committed itself to a definite approach to the problem . |
| 6 | For the first time in peace , the US government had committed itself to a firm military alliance . |
| 7 | Labour has committed itself to a wide range of civil-liberties legislation and constitutional reform when it returns to government , to counter what its Deputy Leader , Mr Hattersley , has described as the vulnerability of traditional freedoms to the dual threat of ‘ legal restriction and a cynical partnership between Government and private enterprise ’ . |
| 8 | The Provisional Government committed itself to a wide range of reforms . |
| 9 | ( Italy had committed itself to a smaller margin of fluctuation within the EMS in January 1990 — see p. 37198 . ) |
| 10 | We know perfectly well that the Labour party has committed itself to an additional £35,000 million of public spending and no capping on local authority expenditure . |
| 11 | Finally , the Polish General Staff has not only seen itself as an avid ‘ consumer ’ of Soviet military doctrine , but a contributor as well , which has authored its own innovations with Soviet endorsement . |
| 12 | St William 's has presented itself as a prime mover and so it falls to St William 's to work out how to express itself as a managing agent . |
| 13 | By 1902 Hardy was working on a project which owed its inspiration to boyhood memories of local stories and traditions of Napoleonic times , but had first presented itself as a literary theme in about 1875 . |
| 14 | Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context . |
| 15 | His hair had formed itself into an interesting anthill kind of a shape though . |
| 16 | One example in Torquay , Devon , has proven itself over a few years . |
| 17 | This betrayal appears to have provoked a large-scale opposition — as it were , an alternative ‘ fundamentalist ’ priesthood , militantly at odds with the established one which had prostituted itself to an illegitimate king . |
| 18 | Palme Dutt and Pollitt , presenting a minority report to the Comintern Congress , argued that the Labour Party , by its restrictions on Communist membership , affiliation and cooperation , had transformed itself into a typical " social fascist " organisation . |
| 19 | By 1810 the legal government of independent Spain ( which had transformed itself from a Central Junta , composed of delegates from the Provincial Juntas , into a Regency ) was cooped up in Cadiz surrounded by a French army ; there it sought to find the sinews of war and to regularize the constitutional position by summoning a Cortes which met on 24 September 1810 . |
| 20 | It has turned its back on the elitism of many consumer organisations and has based itself on a democratic structure in which the voluntary efforts of the members determine policy and action . |
| 21 | The noise/horror aesthetic has driven itself into a dead(ening) end . |
| 22 | After the young animal has imprinted itself on a particular individual , its attachments are fairly irreversible . |
| 23 | The large increase in coastal shipping after 1760 was built on a transport facility which had already proved itself over a long period among the most valuable of the country 's natural assets . |
| 24 | Scotland had re-established itself as an independent nation . |
| 25 | What is important to note is that the collaboration between Grover Jackson and Randy Rhoads in designing this guitar was both fruitful and a complete success , because between them they produced an instrument which , in Randy 's hands , has provided itself with an impressive track record . |
| 26 | I sat up weakly one morning , and the ship 's cabin had transmuted itself into a little square room in an isolated town in South America . |
| 27 | Political sociology has cast itself in a debunking role . |
| 28 | Banking and dealing room software house Kapiti Ltd reckons that it is reaping the rewards of investment in new product development , and the fact that it has spread itself over a wide geographical area . |
| 29 | In 1931 he stated : the moment the responsibilities of any community , particularly in the field of social and economic questions , are shifted from any part of the nation to Washington , then that community has subjected itself to a remote bureaucracy . |
| 30 | In the United States , public relations has divided itself into a great many specialities so that if you want to employ public relations to handle , say , a health issue , you go to someone who specializes in health communications . |