Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had thought , wrongly , that she could allow the love which she had begun to feel for Dr Neil to express itself , only for her deepest instincts to take over when in beginning to make love to her he had unwittingly reminded her so strongly of what … he had done to her . |
| 2 | Since most of the surplus food was from the lowlands with irrigation water originating in the highlands , widespread deforestation in the latter areas had had very serious effects upon the ability of South Korea to feed itself . |
| 3 | In 1877 Anglicans founded the Guild of St Matthew , the first organization inside the Church of England to address itself to the social implications of Christianity since the 1850s . |
| 4 | Unless the US , upon withdrawal , left sufficient indigenous military strength to enable south Korea to defend itself against any but an overt act of aggression , US withdrawal could be interpreted as a betrayal by the US of its friends and allies in the Far East and might well lead to a fundamental realignment of forces in favour of the Soviet Union throughout that part of the world . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't you think that if after seven hundred years of London government , you ca n't do better than this , you ought to leave Ireland to govern itself , and get out with the best grace you may ? ’ |
| 6 | Lancaster Gate awoke on Monday to find itself accused of doing nothing almost before it had had time to consider doing anything . |
| 7 | Any such scheme must also plan for permanent accommodation and personal assistance ; indeed it was the difficult experience of getting district councils within their area to house people who had tried out the transition project and wanted to live independently which prompted one SSD to address itself to the task of influencing local housing authorities . |
| 8 | Those in power wanted the voice of newly independent Tanganyika to express itself forcefully in a printed medium that could be received not only nationally but also abroad . |
| 9 | It was the belief that France and Germany would not prove ready to join a common market , and that the scheme would collapse , that led Britain to distance itself from the Spaak committee late in the year . |
| 10 | Travelling on to China , the Saudi Foreign Minister said on Sept. 20 that the Chinese had now expressed " full support " for measures taken by Saudi Arabia to defend itself ( whereas previously the Chinese had been critical of the deployment of US and other Western forces there ) . |
| 11 | They had waited for the Darkfall to blow itself out , which it did in spectacular fashion . |
| 12 | The Japanese position initially highlighted the weak commitment of countries such as the US and Britain to commit itself to any targets . |
| 13 | More controversially , Henderson linked subsequent failure with the inability of Britain to involve itself in ‘ Europe ’ . |
| 14 | The hope was that the Soviet ‘ limited contingent ’ would stabilise the situation , allow the PDPA to sort itself out and regain some popular support , and then allow a decent withdrawal . |
| 15 | He had reportedly been pressing for the USA to distance itself from the peace negotiations and he was therefore opposed to a Washington venue ; he was also known to support a Middle Eastern venue to emphasize the regional , as opposed to the international , nature of the conflict . |
| 16 | After waiting two years on the back-burner for Batmania to boil itself dry Clean and Sober is finally getting a UK release , allowing Michael Keaton to do his twitching and snorting coke fiend routine without risk of dirtying the caped crusader 's pristine image . |
| 17 | The rumour generated a wave of protest , which caused the HDUR to dissociate itself from the initiative . |
| 18 | The discussion continued , more or less obliquely and allusively , to weigh the pros ( the unity of Islam ; the need to fight injustice ) against the cons ( chiefly , the blackness of Ugandans ; the need for Libya to strengthen itself internally , not to waste money and lives abroad ) of the foreign adventure . |