Example sentences of "itself [adv] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another decade the new Bokhara will have attracted to itself much of the importance of the ancient city , and with its rise and growth the prestige of the latter must inevitably decline . |
| 2 | The aesthetic form of presentation is itself part of the reinterpretation . |
| 3 | It had become an ‘ invasion of privacy ’ ( creation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries of ‘ bedrooms ’ was an important move in the development of sexual privacy , itself part of the development of a stable home unit appropriate to capitalism ) . |
| 4 | However , the seriousness of the charge is itself part of the circumstances that the court should taken into account in deciding if the standard of proof has been met . |
| 5 | Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) . |
| 6 | He was also made surveyor of the forest of Galtres , to the north of York , which was not itself part of the duchy but included the duchy manors of Easingwold and Huby , of which the duke was also made surveyor . |
| 7 | He was also made surveyor of the forest of Galtres , to the north of York , which was not itself part of the duchy but included the duchy manors of Easingwold and Huby , of which the duke was also made surveyor . |
| 8 | From our knowledge of Nietzsche 's earlier thinking on that subject , we would naturally take such a title to imply a central concern with tragedy and its demise , but it is certainly significant that the word " tragedy " is not itself part of the title . |
| 9 | But to implement these policies requires winning political power , and therefore the debate about the future of the underclass is itself part of the debate about the future of left politics in Britain . |
| 10 | His paper is , therefore , partisan — it does not pretend to be other and it is itself part of the discourse in support of psychodynamic theory . |
| 11 | As the quote from Guttierrez shows , the struggle to build a just society is itself part of the process of salvation . |
| 12 | Its existence was indicated by a thick belt of trees , beech and oak as well as willow , where the clay gradually reared itself out of the silt . |
| 13 | We believe that , in that way , Britain can pull itself out of the slump and out of the recession into better times economically . |
| 14 | The former '80s high flier is already well on the way to digging itself out of the mess it got itself into a few years back . |
| 15 | Something was trying to pull itself out of the corridor wall . |
| 16 | ‘ Although this circumstance continually brings an unwelcome number of new soldiers of fortune into the field and into competition with the already existing individual capitalists , it also reinforces the supremacy of capital itself , expands its base and enables it to recruit ever new forces for itself out of the substratum of society . |
| 17 | The left also has to draw itself out of the mire into which it has been plunged following the 1960s renaissance of Marxist ideas in the Labour movement . |
| 18 | If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world . |
| 19 | But as she sang , the voice seemed to lift itself out of the setting , out of the plot , and become a performance in itself . |
| 20 | In my view , it was a monumental error by the Soviet Union to withdraw its diplomatic mission in Tel Aviv following the six-day war in 1967 because , in doing so , it kept itself out of the area as a serious negotiator . |
| 21 | What , may we ask , caused the gate locking lever in Holton-le-Moor signalbox to ease itself out of the frame slowly but determinedly which , after thorough examination , provided no explanation as the rational cause ? |
| 22 | At that moment a slim figure flung itself out of the shadows to tumble Lefevre 's giant adversary from his feet . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Woe betide a Soviet regime which shoots Russian and Eastern Ukrainian miners , the elite of the working class in the supposed land of the proletariat , and does so moreover in an era when suppression of news is no longer possible and society is rapidly organising itself autonomously of the state . |
| 25 | But it would be well for British business to remind itself occasionally of the message contained in Figure 1 ( page 60 ) : the fastest-growing markets are not in Europe . |