Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | And remember , Roger , the thread had been removed , the fuse destroys itself , and people coming in and out of the room , once the bed was on fire , would scarcely think it suspicious even if they saw the odd burn mark on the floor . |
| 2 | Coutts & Co prides itself on offering comprehensive national and international banking and financial services with ‘ an unwavering commitment to courteous and individual service ’ . |
| 3 | Institutionalised racism manifests itself in insensitive service provision in health and social services , with barriers around language , the pattern of family names and vocabulary . |
| 4 | The ‘ resentment ’ at being denied possible access to positions of respect and maybe responsibility manifests itself in a number of ways , not least in the social posture of black youth in the UK . |
| 5 | Confronted with the crass sexual exploitation of mainstream pop , alternative British rock shrouds itself in shapeless jumpers and stares heavenwards . |
| 6 | How one cell orientates itself and produces its spicule so that it fits perfectly into the overall design is totally unknown . |
| 7 | In the 1629 session he told the Commons that ‘ religion offers itself to your first consideration at this time ’ , and reproached the Speaker for undue readiness to obey the king 's orders . |
| 8 | As Karl Barth expresses it , woman is to man as B is to A ; why should woman mind ? 17 The idea that western religion has itself been a cause of attitudes which have deeply harmed women obviously can not be given entrance by them . |
| 9 | A training centre which specialises in courses on drilling and production technology for the oil industry has itself been learning a few lessons over the past 12 months . |
| 10 | From his discussion of how such isolated clans as the Macraes , in such hollows of the world as Auchnasheal , repel all boarders , Johnson opens up a discussion of how mankind in this condition regulates itself . |
| 11 | You may not see a great deal of your creative team — many agencies take the quite reasonable view that the creative people should be busy making advertisements , not chatting up clients , and in one or two like Collett Dickinson & Pearce , the creative department holds itself superior and aloof and deals with clients only through its emissaries , the account executives . |
| 12 | Do n't be surprised if your grief manifests itself in unexpected ways . |
| 13 | These values and this separation of course react back on to design practice itself ; after all practice models itself on conceptions of what , theoretically , it is . |
| 14 | We use the words in the sense of a psychic process by which the mind protects itself from undue or unbearable pain , anxiety or conflict . |
| 15 | The remainder of this chapter concerns itself with these two outer layers . |
| 16 | However , as one of the main findings of this research was that arts educators were not aware of recent changes in modes adopted to undertake professional development generally , the first part of the chapter concerns itself with a review of this issue , exemplars being drawn from arts education where these are available . |
| 17 | Ma flashes Pa an amazed look ; Pa 's frown merely deepens as the Monster hurls itself up , over the tray of the high chair to belly flop on the table in a wreckage of china and dream topping . |
| 18 | I would love to have short negotiations because I am deeply conscious of the serious position in which the farming industry finds itself because of its lack of knowledge of where we are going . |
| 19 | This parasite attaches itself to the mouths of fishes , sea-squirts , etc. 65 . |
| 20 | This little parasite attaches itself to fish with a vicious barbed head . |
| 21 | The low angle means that all shadows — ours , the dogs ' , the trees ' — are long and ghostly across the ice , and the orange light wraps itself around everything so that all things seem to be part of one thing . |
| 22 | This chapter confines itself to the intangibles . |
| 23 | But it also happens that in the organization of recorded knowledge for retrieval the profession of librarianship finds itself at an interesting point of crisis . |
| 24 | So it 's very important that if we do n't get erm visitors coming into the country from overseas that we perhaps erm help the industry , the industry helps itself indeed by giving and providing holidays for people from this country . |
| 25 | Now , metaphor is central to the life of the mind because this joint assertion of identity and difference is the means by which consciousness identifies itself as figure , possessing a certain symbolic meaning , in its reflection upon the material world . |
| 26 | ‘ But the performance of the Labour candidates indicates that , if a viable alternative political force presents itself , a sufficient number of people may be prepared to break ranks and vote in a way which does not tend to propel our communities into deadly conflict with each other . ’ |
| 27 | This is also implied by VI Æthelred itself , where the opening chapter announces itself as " the first ordinance of the bishops " , but the introduction used thereafter is " and the decision of the witan is " . |
| 28 | Introvert series occur when a programme inhibits itself and can grow no further . |
| 29 | Tack into suitable gap when at least half the time has elapsed or harden up on port if a big enough gap presents itself |
| 30 | Now , though so politically convenient a view is no longer tenable , no easy alternative presents itself . |