Example sentences of "[to-vb] itself on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charter 77 , the human rights organization which played a prominent role as a focus for anti-communist dissent in the 1980s , decided to disband itself on Nov. 3 since it had " completed its historical role " . |
| 2 | De Gaulle wanted first for the Commission to end the pretence that it was a potential European government , and also its efforts to impose itself on national governments ; and second that if the Treaty of Rome requirements about majority voting were to apply , they should not be permitted to do so in situations where a member state deemed its vital interests to be at risk . |
| 3 | European civilization was the first to impose itself on the whole surface of the globe . |
| 4 | Even after stripping out the jingoism that tends to impose itself on British attitudes towards the game , the fact remains that it was a host of late-Victorian engineers , merchants and military men who took the rudiments of football abroad with them , almost as missionaries . |
| 5 | In this respect , many of us in fact reform and bend English to our needs rather than allow that language to impose itself on our realities . |
| 6 | But that other ‘ landscape ’ , quieter perhaps , but like an underground stream , unconscious and very persistent , never failed to obtrude itself on him : ‘ It is strange that even now prayer is my natural language , ’ he said , in ‘ Lines From My Grandfather 's Journal ’ ( The Spice-Box Of Earth , p10 ) which powerfully reflect his own self-questionings ; the ‘ tyranny ’ was asserting itself . |
| 7 | John Mansfield Comprehensive School , Peterborough was the first school to sell itself on local radio . |
| 8 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 9 | With the opening of the International Convention Centre the city hopes to put itself on the tourist map . |
| 10 | The rich North Italian industrial city of Turin has decided to put itself on the international map with a biennial art and antiques fair to be held at the Lingotto , the spectacular former Fiat car factory , from 27 February to 7 March . |
| 11 | WITH COVENT Garden on the rise , West Soho , London 's Eighties mecca of zonal shopping , is looking to keep itself on the agenda . |
| 12 | The Ego does charitable work in order to pat itself on the back , and feel self-righteous — not from a sense of love and concern . |
| 13 | In these circumstances the company would be wise to obtain access to appropriate option pricing software to satisfy itself on pricing . |
| 14 | ‘ We discussed — the Colonel , Mrs Moore and myself — the probability of this — ’ she left a coy blank for the word ‘ proposal ’ to etch itself on the wind , ‘ and of course , ’ she giggled just a little , ‘ we made our plans . ’ |
| 15 | But it , it , it is an issue that , that , that does seem to base itself on an as and where basis . |