Example sentences of "[vb pp] itself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has surrounded itself with a region from which nothing — absolutely nothing — can escape . |
| 2 | The headache appeared to have resolved itself with analgesic . |
| 3 | A second , related problem is that business ethics has mostly concerned itself with grand theorising , trying to answer questions such as ‘ Is capitalism ethically justifiable ? ’ and ‘ Can a profitable business ever be ethical ? ’ . |
| 4 | The CNAA , in its desire to ensure that the courses which it validates are of a sufficiently high standard , has necessarily concerned itself with the resources and ethos of institutions as a whole and has not hesitated to pass judgment on them , going , some would argue , beyond the responsibilities laid upon it by its Royal Charter . |
| 5 | In practice though , research within this framework has concerned itself with " patterns of linguistic behaviour " as made manifest , for example , through narrative or in interviews , rather than looking in detail at conversational encounters . |
| 6 | It has now aligned itself with Chorus Systemes SA , the French microkernel company partially owned by SVR4 proponent Unix System Laboratories . |
| 7 | The immense strength of the British built Ocean 60 's construction is well known and the design has proven itself with circumnavigations , very successful charter operations and shorthanded family cruising . |
| 8 | France had therefore bound itself with respect to all States , including Australia and New Zealand , leaving no State as a third party . |
| 9 | Following the Coopers merger with Deloittes , Pearson had found itself with three firms of auditors — Deloitte & Touche and Arthur Andersen in the US and Coopers & Lybrand in the rest of the world — a situation it found cumbersome and expensive . |
| 10 | This has proved itself with divers who have vomited in their mask or had mechanical failures and have had to remove their mask . |
| 11 | What is important to note is that the collaboration between Grover Jackson and Randy Rhoads in designing this guitar was both fruitful and a complete success , because between them they produced an instrument which , in Randy 's hands , has provided itself with an impressive track record . |
| 12 | At the moment of writing , Labour seems to have lumbered itself with a system in which thode entitled to nominate — Labour MPs — will have no reliable means of guessing whether they are wasting their nominations on a no-hoper . |
| 13 | Feminist sociology , on the other hand , in its critique of the male-centred character of all previous criminology , has involved itself with the traditional criminological concerns . |
| 14 | He pointed to the fact that with respect to Korea the United States had associated itself with others of the United Nations in support of Korea 's cause and , in that sense , therefore , Korea 's position transcended a definition of interest by a line drawn in any direction . |
| 15 | Switzerland , although not a UN member , joined the embargo by banning oil imports and arms sales , and freezing Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets in Switzerland — the first time that the country had associated itself with UN sanctions . |
| 16 | The government of the GDR has expressly associated itself with this statement … |
| 17 | But organized science had allied itself with Big Business and Government ; it had no interest in the individual — its meat was statistics ! |
| 18 | ‘ Sheer luck — it 's tagged itself with one of these . ’ |