Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour committed itself to immediate acceptance of the Maastricht social charter , with implications for low pay and for women , and to meeting the UN 's target for aid as a percentage of GNP within five years . |
| 2 | The financial sector prepared itself for full deregulation and open competition with foreign institutions . |
| 3 | Exalted patriotism attached itself to victory over the United States in 1898 , to conquest in Morocco , even to the success of Peral 's submarine . |
| 4 | One question which arises is why , with 256 code values available in each byte , has this control process limited itself to the 128 7-bit codes ? |
| 5 | His own group called itself the Free Conservatives , set up an office to rival that of the official party , and supplied money and professional assistance to rebels at by-elections . |
| 6 | Very seldom in the history of French sport has a national team found itself under an almost moral obligation to win ’ , said the same editorial . |
| 7 | Had separatism confined itself to a political context , then however violent the discussion , its impact and effects would not have been a fraction of what they are . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's the one , me boy , and it has this morning presented itself in four mess-tins . |
| 9 | The Provisional Government committed itself to recognizing the right of national self-determination and , in place of the old Tsarist governors , installed in the minority areas governing committees of local dignitaries and deputies of the relevant nationality to the national parliament , the Duma . |
| 10 | The Provisional Government committed itself to a wide range of reforms . |
| 11 | Not only has the élite closed itself off to interlopers ( some 70 per cent of officer cadets at the Odessa High Artillery Military School are sons of active duty officers ) ; but , on the evidence , skilled workers have become downwardly mobile members of society . |
| 12 | A puzzle solved itself out here . |
| 13 | Only when in technology body and image so interpenetrate that all revolutionary tension becomes bodily collective innervation , and all the bodily innervation of the collective becomes revolutionary discharge , has reality transcended itself to the extent demanded by the Communist Manifesto . |
| 14 | The company regarded itself as having exclusive European rights from Boeing to market the item . |
| 15 | That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing . |
| 16 | The party committed itself to the defence of " democracy , national identity and sovereignty " . |
| 17 | The fly transferred itself from Marian 's hand to Allen 's forehead but it did not disturb him and he slept . |
| 18 | In the micro-seconds that had passed , the connection achieved itself . |