Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , staying for a moment with hi-jacking , here we have a specialised form of the Breakthrough Phenomenon , which until the antidote is produced or produces itself , has quite startling pyrotechnic results , but collapses again as the antidote is devised . |
| 2 | These obligations should be owed only if the firm owes the putative customer fiduciary duties , for example where it sells to a brokerage client back-to-back with its own trade in the market , or advises him ; perhaps also if the firm is a market maker or holds itself out as a dealer ( since that is providing a service ) . |
| 3 | Accommodation takes place when the organism alters , or accommodates itself , to outside reality : ‘ Accommodation is concerned with mastery of the environment through self-modifying aspects of behavior that bends the self to fit reality ’ ( Levy , 1978 , p.1 10 ) . |
| 4 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 5 | Once the Highland mansion of the Keiller family of Dundee , the 4-star Craigendarroch Hotel has all the charm of an old country house … and prides itself on offering the high standards of yesteryear . |
| 6 | It boasts a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and prides itself on offering a high standard of service . |
| 7 | One species of beetle in Brazil , when alarmed , immediately folds up its legs and flattens itself sideways , exposing its white underside and so takes on the appearance of a bird dropping . |
| 8 | Perhaps it goes through a tunnel and squirts itself out into another universe somewhere else . |
| 9 | IRS 16 is 1 ( 0.04pc ) east of Sgr A and has itself been resolved into about 2 dozen compact components . |
| 10 | Schumpeter 's theory of democracy , which was discussed in Chapter 1 , shows the influence of elite theories , and has itself influenced some later political views . |
| 11 | It is a problem which seems curiously common to left-arm spinners , and manifests itself with the bowler either failing to release the ball , or propelling it vertically into the air . |
| 12 | A secondary stage follows after a few more months and manifests itself by a rash on the face and body . |
| 13 | For this kind of disproportionality only appears if an over-production of means of production has taken place and manifests itself externally as an over-production of means of consumption . |
| 14 | The romantic fantasy is nurtured in our youth with Enid Blyton books and ghost stories and manifests itself in the invention of tunnel myths . |
| 15 | So , the natural ability goes beyond the physical and manifests itself mentally when players are in the process of play . |
| 16 | In moral ( or human ) science , by contrast , we deal with that with which we have immediate contact within ourselves — the human spirit and the forms in which it expresses and manifests itself . |
| 17 | Cerebral oedema is thought to occur in a large proportion of patients towards the end of the treatment cycle , and manifests itself in a number of neuropsychiatric symptoms . |
| 18 | Through observation of his own case , he became convinced that chronic muscle tension — a result of life 's physical and emotional stresses — which overlays and destroys natural poise we have as tiny children , and manifests itself in hunched shoulders , clenched jaws , a slouched or twisted spine , with , as often as not , the head held to one side , could not but interfere with the efficient functioning of the body , restricting breathing , circulation and digestion . |
| 19 | Evil expresses and exposes itself now , as an organic extension of its own workings . |
| 20 | The Meineke ( 882811 w ) offers single rooms at Dm104–135 , and describes itself as ‘ superior middle-class ’ . |
| 21 | The pursuit of truth , the effort to comprehend , arrange , interpret some aspect or other of the universe we perceive is an activity of humanity which justifies , rewards and motivates itself . |
| 22 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 23 | The Last of England breaks taboos and frees itself of hypocrisy . |
| 24 | The contrast , as nearly as the character of the house-building industry admits of the comparison , is that between mass-production and individual work , and shows itself alike in cost and output . |
| 25 | This is inflammation and infection of the breast which sometimes follows cracked nipples and shows itself by pain , redness of a part or the whole breast , swelling , and fever . |
| 26 | It is a bold colonization by a group that knows it is — and shows itself to be — in the ascendant . |
| 27 | The lightweight ‘ On And On ’ gains pounds as that naggingly effective chorus does what all choruses are supposed to do and lodges itself in your memory banks . |
| 28 | There is also a softer side , which has evolved far beyond the fighting form and concerns itself with psychological and physical development It is called tai chi chuan or the ‘ grand ultimate fist ’ . |
| 29 | The convenors of the conference were drawn from two ideological camps in South Africa 's extra-parliamentary opposition : the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , which is ideologically aligned to the outlawed African National Congress , and the BCM , which was founded by Steve Biko and sees itself as a third force between the ANC and the banned Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) . |
| 30 | The Initiative wants OSF to contribute to the Unix specification for ACE , and sees itself as a possible vehicle for knitting the discordant elements of the establishment together . |