Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [noun] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as they began , the chief Soviet spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov , was insisting that change was necessary : ‘ Those who delay will be punished by life itself . ’ |
| 2 | What they are trying to buy are assets which can best be developed by Palatine itself , including some which can only be developed by Palatine as an independent brewery . |
| 3 | Indeed , discussions of this aspect often seem to consider the function of health services to be to compensate for deprivation itself rather than for its health damaging effects . |
| 4 | The problem might even be confined to England itself , for it is not unusual , particularly in the twelfth century , to find two systems of reckoning in use at the same time for different classes of computation . |
| 5 | What , then , of the sexism that seems to be built into language itself ? |
| 6 | The massive surge in house prices in London between 1984 and 1987 provides some indication of the scale of pent-up demand for new housing , only a relatively small fraction of which can be met within London itself . |
| 7 | A ‘ god ’ and corresponding religion that can serve the human need , must be produced by mankind itself , that is , the ‘ god ’ must be created by life and man 's intelligence , not life created by ‘ god ’ . |
| 8 | Plentiful and noteworthy examples can be found in Europe itself , despite the absence of armed hostilities between East and West . |
| 9 | Meyer of Leipzig preferred to think that if sufficiently diligent search was made natural sources of jade would be found in Europe itself . |
| 10 | Historical precedents of major change can well be illustrated from Britain itself , where the whole geographical pattern of the Industrial Revolution provides ample evidence of radical geographical evolution . |
| 11 | With this increasingly active role which Highlander was playing in the civil rights movement , it was only a matter of time until the reactionary extremism , which the blacks had long been fighting against , began to be directed at Highlander itself . |