Example sentences of "[prep] itself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously you know , I 'd love to erm try and win that erm win that again erm and also the grass track racing which is extremely important to me , but erm being world speedway champion is erm for me the number one now you know , I 've really erm the long track scene virtually can look after itself without having to worry too much about the planning and everything . |
| 2 | The apex ( tip ) of the shoot continues growth by mobilising food and water towards itself from the older tissues behind . |
| 3 | Thus , one generation may be able to redistribute towards itself from succeeding generations only by coercion ( government policy ) . |
| 4 | It managed to sustain a comparison of itself as the resolute party to the OUP 's vacillation . |
| 5 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 6 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 7 | Primarily it thinks of itself as a software concern . |
| 8 | Primarily it thinks of itself as a software concern . |
| 9 | ‘ Marxism ’ , on the other hand , Sartre claims , ‘ is History itself becoming conscious of itself ’ ( I , 40 ) : as for Lukács , it is by becoming conscious of itself as the subject of history that the working class will understand history 's meaning — and so recognize itself as the meaning of history . |
| 10 | Then , as now , the Conservative Party in the 1950s liked to think of itself as a lonely beacon of responsibility in a moral wilderness of couldn't-care-less ‘ permissiveness ’ and selfish ‘ I 'm all right Jack ’ attitudes . |
| 11 | In keeping with the Legion 's view of itself as a family , Christmas was an important event . |
| 12 | It was concerned with the status of itself as an organization and of the degrees it awarded : the question of status was , in Christopherson 's words , ‘ there , but not written in minutes ! ’ |
| 13 | Identification is a process which occurs when the ego , in part abandoning its awareness of itself as a separate entity , equates itself , or some aspect of itself , with some external thing . |
| 14 | Its view of itself as an instrument — and interpreter — of public policy ( e.g. RENFE 1981m : 31 ) was reminiscent of BR 's outlook until the 1960s . |
| 15 | In case we become aware of its tricks , the Ego tries to throw us off the scent , by projecting aspects of itself onto the outside world . |
| 16 | This type of subsoil is not difficult of itself to work , but in rainy weather it breaks down easily , and so deep excavations could be very troublesome indeed . |
| 17 | As the model presents different sides of itself to the wind , it is necessary to hold on various trim offsets to remain stationary ( Fig. 5.1 ) relative to the pilot . |
| 18 | Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . |
| 19 | Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the mere fact that money is paid under protest will not give rise of itself to the inference of such an agreement ; though it may form part of the evidence from which it may be inferred that the payee did not intend to close the transaction : see Maskell v. Horner [ 1915 ] 3 K.B . |
| 21 | The answers do confirm one applicable criterion , namely , whether the relevant regime is able of itself to ‘ exercise effective control of the territory of the state concerned ’ and is ‘ likely to continue to do so ; ’ and the statement as to what is to be the evidence of the attitude of Her Majesty 's Government provides another — to be inferred from the nature of the dealings , if any , that Her Majesty 's Government has with it and whether they are on a normal government to government basis . |
| 22 | Section 2(3) states : " Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . " |
| 23 | Section 2(3) seems to go further by saying that just because a party has entered into a contract with a term imposing risk on him , this " is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance " of that risk . |
| 24 | The provision as drafted is not entirely clear , and the use of the words " is not of itself to be taken " might be construed to imply that some other type of truly voluntary acceptance could override s 2(1) or 2(2) by the operation of the rule . |
| 25 | Even using the same terms on more than one occasion with the same customer would seem not to amount of itself to trading on standard terms . |
| 26 | But worse , at this point design can " no longer be aware of itself for to separate the social formative and communicative-representational functions is to reduce itself , to make its activity into a variation of technical activity , unimportant in itself , important only in so far as a problem can be solved through it , a product constructed . |
| 27 | I was sorry that he went to the West Riding after only two terms , although this made me stand on my own feet quickly , which was of itself of value . |
| 28 | It would be startling if the mere fact that the defendant invoked a Community law defence , with sufficient substance ( but no more ) to escape rejection under the narrowly drawn principle of acte clair , should be capable of itself of excluding this useful jurisdiction , thus providing encouragement to those seeking to profit from law-breaking activities to adopt this method of prolonging what may prove to be a source of illicit profit . |
| 29 | Mulvey combined this Freudian explanation of pleasure in looking with the theory of the mirror stage in the work of Jacques Lacan , in which the child 's first recognition of itself in the mirror is called a misrecognition , because what the child sees in the mirror is an idealised whole and rounded image at odds with the child 's diffuse bodily experience of itself at that stage in development — it can not yet control its movements , let alone its environment . |
| 30 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |