Example sentences of "itself be [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this would itself be merely an instance of the general fact that with most sentences it is possible for two people to understand them but disagree about their truth . |
| 2 | But realism itself is just a matter of convention ; for some people it is the defamiliarized codes which seem realistic , whereas for others it is the traditional devices which convey a sense of reality , and no one device is inherently more realistic than another . |
| 3 | Throughout the southern and western parts of India the live snake itself is also the object of veneration , and at a multitude of Cobra shrines and in temples it is fed on milk , sweetmeats , sugar , etc. , nurtured and worshipped as being the bodily vehicle of that higher cosmic power or spirit which is to be approached with reverence and honoured . |
| 4 | No longer a matter of distribution across a norm , of statistics and probability , ‘ normality ’ itself is simply a common-sense , inclusive definition of what it is to be human , with wider boundaries redefined from experience . |
| 5 | He argues that , far from the State being the prime mover of history , the State itself is simply an aspect of a particular type of society . |
| 6 | The bone itself is probably the ilium , one of the bones in the toad or frog 's pelvic girdle : some say it was the breast bone . |
| 7 | Skomer itself is primarily a seabird reserve with over 320 000 birds and is owned and maintained by the Countryside Council for Wales . |
| 8 | He stressed that we must capitalise on the traditional Scottish capacity for inventiveness and recognise that education itself is always an investment rather than an on-cost . |
| 9 | gardes of culture producers are not necessarily ahead of audiences or the demand-side because the latter itself is now a mass of culture producers . |
| 10 | A sign — and it is important to remember that Christmas itself is only a sign . |
| 11 | A licence coupled with an interest , e.g. a profit , is irrevocable , as although the licence itself is only a right in personam , it confers a right in rem to do something once an entry has been made . |
| 12 | The lodge itself is still a feature in the landscape , possibly built in the style of the great house as those latticed panes would suggest ; but the family within it is to displace with its architecture the great houses of the Victorians , whether old or new . |
| 13 | If this is so , or if the argument itself is merely the symptom of an underlying , unexpressed conflict , then conflict will be the result . |
| 14 | The dressing table itself is basically a worktop : either a length of kitchen worktop or make from the same material as the rest of the system . |
| 15 | The kitchen itself was just a part of the landing ; there was a sink , a cold tap and a cooker … |
| 16 | There were plenty of gates and there were numerous ways out of the square , and the park itself was barely a couple of hundred yards across ; just another backstreet pigeon trap with no feature other than a strange half-timbered lodge near its centre to make it unique , but still she hesitated to enter . |
| 17 | But the film itself was neither the conceit of its director , John Schlesinger , nor of Tory Central Office 's heavily criticised image-makers . |
| 18 | The Great Council itself was essentially the precursor of the House of Lords . |
| 19 | Youth itself was hardly a disadvantage , in an age when people were ruling kingdoms and leading armies in their teens ; the Stewart kings themselves , all but one beginning his personal rule in his teens , two dead at thirty , and only one surviving beyond the age of forty , could hardly have waited for age and experience to bless their undertakings and achievements . |
| 20 | John MacCunn , Professor of Philosophy at Liverpool University and author of several standard texts on citizenship and character , was keen to impress upon his readers that rights alone did not make the citizen ; what mattered was the way in which they were used : democracy itself was only a beginning , not an end . |
| 21 | The flat string of squares flickered slightly just sufficiently to show it was a projection , nothing real ; but although it was apparent the line of squares itself was merely an image , on its surface sat seemingly real and solid wooden chess pieces made from black and white wood , and set on that strange line like tiny isolated guard towers on a chequered frontier wall . |