Example sentences of "[to-vb] itself [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In a radio broadcast earlier this week , Mr Shevardnadze echoed the public mood in most areas of the country expressing optimism that Georgia was now starting to pull itself out of political and economic crisis .
2 The North of England has the capacity to pull itself out of such a mire , and surely wants the chance to exert its muscle to do so .
3 With only small amounts of money changing hands , a limited number of dedicated venues , and , if it were to restrict itself solely to black audiences , a finite number of punters , the black comedy scene is clearly still in its infancy .
4 Aside from the stalemated Iran-Iraq war , Lebanon continued to tear itself apart in continuous internecine struggles .
5 The labour group , unable to free itself entirely from structural constraints during its period of office , effectively capitulated , losing power in the 1900 election .
6 Or should it be able , despite being owned by the State , to distance itself somewhat from political authority ?
7 To do this , the group will need to ally itself strategically to these information providers .
8 This gives it a passing resemblance to a crab , with which it shares an inability to raise itself significantly above any flat surface on which it finds itself , giving the lie to that universally popular , but inaccurate , graffito , ‘ Please to stand upon the seat , the crabs in here can jump six feet ’ .
9 But they are the least the world must do to make itself safer from nuclear blackmail .
10 Its predecessor organisation , the Fiber Channel Systems Initiative ( FCSI ) , is already up and running , scheduled to reveal itself publicly in six to eight weeks .
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