Example sentences of "[prep] itself the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tolkien 's romance was an amalgam , then , and a potent one ; and its improbable success in his sixties lay not just in proving itself a bestseller but in making of itself the heart and mind of an international cult : a cult that was to spread to England from romantically-minded lands like California and the Antipodes . |
| 2 | The term proportionality does moreover not resolve in and of itself the actual standard of review . |
| 3 | Having achieved this enormous distribution of people ( with all its many and continuing cruelties ) , the nationalist can point proudly to the result as itself the evidence for the prior existence of nations . |
| 4 | One wonders whether this can be the same nation which had gained for itself the reputation of being a stolid , pipe-sucking manhood , unmoved by panic or excitement , and reliable in the tightest of places . |
| 5 | Therefore , each church must work out for itself the best way and time to measure ‘ membership ’ which most accurately and helpfully reflects their situation . |
| 6 | When it finally ratified the Protocol in 1975 the USA further expressed its ‘ understanding ’ that the Protocol does not cover control agents and herbicides , although for itself the USA agreed to limit their use . |
| 7 | The European Court of Justice has held that the court in the state in which enforcement is sought must examine for itself the requirements of Article 27(2) even if the court granting the judgment had considered similar issues in relation to Article 20154 . |
| 8 | As the child 's mental processes become more complex , it becomes increasingly able to absorb and construct for itself the complexities of the external world . |
| 9 | In part the debate has been presented as an opposition between a broadly liberal programme — multiculturalism — and an antiracism which claimed for itself the mantle of left radicalism ( Dodgson and Stewart , 1981 ; Mullard , 1984 ; Troyna , 1987a ; Gill and Singh , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Also , interestingly , Labour was trying to claim for itself the new Prospective owner-occupiers with a promise of low interest mortgages for low income earners . |
| 11 | The instructions which Mr. Tucker gave to the Burnham sub-branch made it clear that the bank was retaining for itself the responsibility of explaining to Mrs. O'Brien the effect and nature of the documents she was to sign . |
| 12 | in the Court of Appeal , ‘ in view of the historic struggle of the legislature to secure for itself the sole power to levy money upon the subject , its complete success in that struggle , the elaborate means adopted by the representative House to control the amount , the conditions and the purpose of the levy , the circumstances would be remarkable indeed which would induce the court to believe that the legislature had sacrificed all the well-known checks and precautions , and , not in express words , but merely by implication , had entrusted a Minister of the Crown with undefined and unlimited powers of imposing charges upon the subject for purposes connected with his department . ’ |
| 13 | This development particularly concerned Soviet leaders , although Egypt reserved for itself the right to exercise sovereign control over these facilities . |
| 14 | Each group needs to see for itself the importance of indirect and hard-to-define influences . |
| 15 | Again , originally groups of ‘ adventurers ’ were recognized in trade with various lands — one trading with Prussia secured royal recognition in 1391 , another with the Netherlands in 1407 and a third with the Scandinavian lands in 1408 , but eventually the Netherlands group secured for itself the specific name of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company ( 64 , pp. 143–50 ) . |
| 16 | Lords Scarman and Simon have recently added a broader objective : " Whether or not judicial virtue needs such a spur , there is also another important interest involved in justice done openly , namely that the evidence and argument should be publicly known , so that society may judge for itself the quality of justice administered in its name , and whether the law requires modification … the common law by its recognition of the principle of open justice ensures that the public administration of justice will be subject to public scrutiny . |
| 17 | In itself the dim complacency of gossip and cards at ‘ our club ’ would seem harmless , familiar , merely social ; but ‘ in itself ’ denatures The Possessed where groupings dissolve or collapse into each other , and where the ‘ merely ’ social has no place . |
| 18 | For a home is in itself the triumph of God banishing night and chaos and necessity , indwelling this lifeless clay with the Spirit divine of freedom and joy . |
| 19 | At the wasp-waist of the lough is the town of Enniskillen , scene of tragic murders , yet in itself the most delightful of neighbourhoods . |
| 20 | P. L. Forey offers us a somewhat smug polemic directly on this view ( ’ In itself the scenario is harmless ’ ; ‘ the cause of that ( taxonomic ) pattern if it is considered desirable to know it ’ etc ) . |
| 21 | It was this seemingly irreconcilable cleavage that effectively meant that the Council of Europe was in no position to advance by and in itself the concept of European union to any great length . |
| 22 | If policy-makers wish to kick this habit out of the classroom , it is clear that training in new skills is not in itself the answer . |
| 23 | That means both that there is a dialectical meaning of the practical ensemble … and that each singular event totalizes in itself the practical ensemble in the infinite richness of its singularity ’ ( II , 26 ) . |
| 24 | Hence , the child may grow up trying to be the better parent — replacing in itself the " bad " parental elements and exercising its goodness in this respect by Occupying the " good " parental position for others . |
| 25 | If , on the other hand , the obstacle is of such a kind as to jeopardize the integration of the market , it may seriously be doubted whether it is still proportionate to be in itself the legitimate objective pursued by the measure . |
| 26 | Such a practice cuts at the foundation of Aristoteleian notions of male and female difference and constitutes in itself the act of revolt — though the challenge it issues is more veiled than the more overt social questions asked by Hunter or Kelly . |
| 27 | Wimsatt 's use of the term ‘ iconic ’ ( and the title of The Verbal Icon ) derives from Morris 's distinction ( 1971 : 37 ) between the ‘ iconic ’ and the ‘ symbolic ’ sign ; the former is that which ‘ characterizes … by exhibiting in itself the properties of an object ’ , the latter that which does not do so , but has instead a purely conventional relationship with the object that it designates . |
| 28 | It follows from the arguments above that the transfer of ownership from the public to the private sector is not in itself the most important issue . |
| 29 | In itself the Beveridge structure rested on a set of assumptions about employment and family allowances which could not be planned for and might easily have proved disastrously misplaced . |
| 30 | As noted , there are few long run effects given the negligible size of the lagged dependent variables — a point which shows in itself the instability of demand for issuance — the market tends to be subject to " feasts and famines " . |