Example sentences of "for itself [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year Dillons got John Mortimer on a holiday weekend , which was not good timing , but it has since made a niche for itself with local books . |
| 2 | ‘ Darlington has made a name for itself with imaginative use of housing capital . |
| 3 | His rejection of the right of a religion to claim superiority for itself over other religions underlines his claim that no particular religion can embody what he calls the one , true and perfect Religion . |
| 4 | Such a qualified endorsement of the authority of the law falls short of acknowledging the authority the law claims for itself in two respects . |
| 5 | A rule of thumb is that investment in energy efficiency is expected to pay for itself in two years . |
| 6 | In terms of cost effectiveness , a single Ventura/VT600 installation applied to Classical Music should have paid for itself in eight months — costed against the savings in typesetting . |
| 7 | Today , with funding for British Universities squeezed ever tighter by the recession and thirteen years of an unsympathetic Conservative government , the Warburg is being forced to fend for itself in large measure . |
| 8 | A 6m zone stops 90% of walked in dirt , reducing maintenance costs of the floor covering beyond the Coral by 50% and the Coral Clean-off-Zone pays for itself in 6 months . |
| 9 | But it has more than paid for itself in improved factory efficiency , said Bob Pruitt , operations manager of Thatcher Tubes , Florence — part of Courtaulds Packaging . |
| 10 | At the St Pierre Park it is estimated that the oven system will have paid for itself inside 18 months . |
| 11 | SAAB had estimated the costs and benefits of the line-out system and had calculated that the system would pay for itself within four years , with more than half of the savings coming from the increased production flexibility of the system and another 25 per cent coming from reduced labour turnover and absenteeism . |
| 12 | such a programme would pay for itself within five years , and save fuel worth something like £2800 million a year . |