Example sentences of "[vb base] itself [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not — how can I put it ? — lend itself to a faster tempo . |
| 2 | He saw Ratagan 's axe flash like a star and bury itself in a hairy snout , splintering black blood . |
| 3 | In that way , so Eliot has suggested , Pound made himself responsible for a whole ‘ period ’ , the period of his lifetime , anxiously impatient that it too lift itself to a higher level . |
| 4 | What they could find room to laugh at , however , was the way in which respectable England could ignore the realities of slum life for so many years , while showering the Empire with the benefits of Christianity and imperial wars , and then get itself into a respectable lather in such a short time about a few broken heads among rough lads . |
| 5 | Jacques Delors , the President of the Commission of the European Communities ( EC ) , proposed on March 7 that the EC go beyond establishing a joint foreign and security policy and commit itself to a common European defence policy . |
| 6 | Weber differed , however , in incorporating rather more of the Marxist analysis into his own theory , in so far as he recognized social classes — and more generally , various ‘ constellations of interest ’ in the economic sphere as important bases of domination , in his intense preoccupation with the growth of bureaucratic domination , and in the concentration of his analysis upon the different ways in which domination can make claims to ‘ legitimacy ’ and so constitute itself as a moral authority . |
| 7 | The reader may feel perplexity , but the text will not amplify what is there or rewrite itself in a simpler form . |
| 8 | Thus , every three years or so , a strident siren echoed across the Dantesque landscape of Winnington to signal the moment for everyone within eye- or ear-shot to retire to a safe distance and to watch the plant reduce itself to a concrete skeleton . |