Example sentences of "[vb pp] itself in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another leisure analyst , who declined to be named , said Airtours had ‘ shot itself in the foot ’ by announcing only last Monday estimated cost savings of £20 million in the 1993/94 financial year if the merger went unconditional . |
| 2 | The idea of a National Government , then , had implanted itself in the mind of the King , and in that of his closest adviser , as a possible solution to the economic crisis which many felt to be imminent . |
| 3 | In research terms , this has shown itself in the way that it has become perfectly acceptable to use a wide variety of research techniques in one study , and to use different techniques for the study of different topics . |
| 4 | Public administration and management in central government has stood up to these strains , but the weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the last 25 years . |
| 5 | The weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the past 25 years . " |
| 6 | Moving is development in IBM — and to bring that full circle , the depth of well developed IBM people has demonstrated itself in the company 's extraordinary ability to get so many thousand people into new jobs , even in new places . |
| 7 | Unfortunately for them , the theory remains unproven for there is no evidence that the central nervous system of any human being has ever restructured itself in the manner suggested . |
| 8 | It is but one of a plethora of bearable books on the ever lovable cuddly toy which has imprinted itself in the imagination of young and old alike , and always with a name by which to identity the original . |
| 9 | The court was influenced by evidence pointing to the fact that the defendants had been negligent and it was stated that had steps been taken to mitigate the nuisance , the Council would not have found itself in the position it was now in . |
| 10 | In this chapter I have made no attempt to discuss why it should be that the DES has found itself in the situation of promulgating these various initiatives , or indeed how it sees the relationship between them . |
| 11 | Following our view of sadism , we should say that the destructive component had entrenched itself in the super-ego and turned against the ego . |
| 12 | Ollero asserts that TransTools has not involved itself in the price war . |
| 13 | Since 1985 , the Association has promoted itself in the South but has encountered difficulty in establishing a countrywide structure due in even part to branches being thin on the ground in some areas and the difficulty in telling all assistant managers of the benefits and purpose of the Association . |
| 14 | ‘ Alas , ’ said Owen , ‘ I feel that the largeness of spirit for which you are famous has expressed itself in the figure you give us . ’ |
| 15 | An alien presence had established itself in the heart of the town and people who had no connection with the crime under investigation or any other would feel uneasy until they were gone . |
| 16 | LTOM has never established itself in the way that foreign counterparts have done . |
| 17 | Carden is Europe 's most northerly commercial vineyard and in the four years since it opened has already established itself in the wine market . |
| 18 | RECRUITING IN A RECESSION Taking on new staff is rarely a company priority in a recession , but The Freshman Consultancy has established itself in the recruitment business in spite of the current climate |
| 19 | The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting . |
| 20 | The second embedded itself in the ground near Lee 's foot . |
| 21 | It is less clear , however , to what extent and in what ways this broad division has actually manifested itself in the classroom and in internal school debates and policies , and in local authority policies . |
| 22 | The specific effects of the written text have been the preoccupation of literary theory from Derrida and Barthes onward , and the writerly nature of the novel has often manifested itself in the form of typographical devices which defy oral utterance or those specific to the codex . |