Example sentences of "able [to-vb] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | His leader 's menace and awe was able to transmit itself thousands of miles over a telephone line , such was his presence . |
| 2 | Their activism is now able to sustain itself independently of the lives , dreams and aspirations of the majority of blacks from whose experience they derive their authority to speak . |
| 3 | Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than about one and a half times the mass of the sun would not be able to support itself against its own gravity . |
| 4 | Contemporary science is able to designate itself , through its revolutionary discoveries , as a liquidation of a past . |
| 5 | The nascent Welsh revival has been sparked by a pack at last able to impose itself upon both the French and the Irish . |
| 6 | The underlying position remains one in which most of the rural population i.e. three quarters of the total , is able to feed itself adequately , but has neither the surplus labour nor the technology to make big strides in productivity . |
| 7 | The subject is able to constitute itself as an ‘ I ’ , an abstract , self-knowing subject , in an interaction that recognizes an ‘ other ’ that is a similarly formed subject . |
| 8 | The resistance to Heath on the part of the union movement clearly had mass support , but equally clearly this resistance movement was not able to constitute itself , as it were , into a hegemonic political force capable of securing a workable parliamentary majority through the Labour Party and imposing a radical alternative course of social development ( it was much less able , of course , to constitute itself as the nucleus of an alternative state power in an extra-parliamentary manner ) . |
| 9 | If the symptoms should start to show following an unavoidable change , say a power failure or similar , the fish will normally be able to rid itself swiftly upon return to normal conditions . |
| 10 | The new board is able to award itself performance bonuses based on monopoly profit and to take share options on share values which reflect that monopoly profit . |
| 11 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 12 | Luce Irigaray sees a similar process at work in the language of the hysteric which is never able to assert itself as definitive or complete ( 1966:29–30 ) . |
| 13 | any income the school has been able to generate itself . |
| 14 | We then need to address the issue of how the funding will change if one authority is able to divest itself of certain fixed assets . |
| 15 | Apart from being enormously tough , Troll flesh has the unusual property of being able to regenerate itself quite quickly . |
| 16 | The dna molecule is composed of the string of compounds called nucleotide , having four bases attached to them : A C G T. What is surprising about dna is that A and T will cling together , and so will C and G. A single dna chain , immersed in a pool of nucleotide , will latch on to its counterpart and thus be able to duplicate itself when the double chain is split apart . |
| 17 | No gender differences were in fact detected , but the assessment system was rendered less liable to such biases staff were sensitized to their existence and nature and the course was able to give itself a clean bill of health without any special data collection effort being required . |
| 18 | Fruit bats carry their single offspring continuously until it is able to fly itself . |
| 19 | Young skin is not only thinner but also has fewer pigment cells and is less able to protect itself from the sun . |
| 20 | Society may not through its laws be able to protect the sufferers from addictive disease from the consequences of their addiction nor he able to protect itself from the consequences of their actions even if the law is applied universally to all addictive drugs including alcohol . |
| 21 | we just have a recap , okay , if there 's any congenital amalgamation particularly in the central nervous system , things like spina bifida , hydrocephalus , problems like that and any underlying infection or feeding difficulties and the feeding difficulties could be cause or effect , we 've got a baby that 's erm , who 's temperature is dropping , it 's getting more sleepy and erm it 's difficult to feed and if a baby 's not feeding properly it wo n't be able to warm itself up . |
| 22 | Although Sémillon is one of the grapes behind the star sweeties of Sauternes ( and the majority of dry Bordeaux wines ) it was never able to flaunt itself before it arrived in Australia . |
| 23 | It therefore becomes a little universe of independent reality in revolt from God and the rest of time , and able to fence itself off from the lessons of the past and the demands of the future . |
| 24 | The restoration caused no trouble to the East India Company , which was quite soon able to turn itself into a distinctly royalist body and was given a rather wider range of political powers than it had possessed before . |
| 25 | On a crowded traffic way he 'd have been dead in under a minute but the barren landscape of this world offered little in the way of obstacles and the vehicle seemed able to right itself over the irregular peaks that occasionally reared unexpectedly out of the mists . |
| 26 | For a time the eastern empire was able to maintain itself in Italy , but thereafter the popes had to look to the new Frankish power in the north for their temporal defences . |
| 27 | It falls relatively easy prey to a large number of its predators — man , foxes , stoats , weasels , mink , buzzards and others — yet it is able to maintain itself in very significant numbers and those very numbers do , in fact , shield other important members of the British wildlife community from a high degree of predation . |
| 28 | be able to maintain itself in power by means of its organisational capacity , its ability to adapt to new forces and its dynamic positive relationship with the moral unity of society expressed through the rule of law . |
| 29 | In recognition of the fact that the rabbit is so inoffensive and far from able to defend itself , nature has applied the customary protection for the species . |
| 30 | because there 's er there 's an absolute desperate er anxiety that Russia 's not gon na be able to defend itself unless it industrializes very very quickly , it 's |