Example sentences of "[v-ing] itself in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pakrac formed part of Croatia 's Knin province , which had unilaterally declared itself on Feb. 28 to be the " Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina " , in contravention of Croatian law [ see p. 38019 ] , pronouncing itself in favour of union with Serbia and Montenegro , and with the Serbian population of neighbouring Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 2 | Interestingly enough Larry Witty , the General Secretary of the Labour Party , said at last year 's Labour Party Conference that if it had not been for the steadily , steady influence of the unions during the eighties , when the Party was tearing itself in two , we would not have a Labour Party today . |
| 3 | Instead , after varying lengths of time , they were discharged as being ‘ in remission ’ , i.e. their schizophrenia was thought to be still present , but not actually revealing itself in their behaviour . |
| 4 | Discourse is more like a moving film , revealing itself in time — sometimes over long periods . |
| 5 | This tension between two historical periods , revealing itself in the narrative as an opposition between the unconscious , non-reflective life style of a father , Antoine Bloye , and the critical , politically aware conscience of a son ( Pierre Bloye ) /communist narrator ( Paul Nizan ) , constitutes the historical centre of this text . |
| 6 | It is the whole complex of behaviour , thought and feeling , expressing itself in custom , in art , in political and social organisation , in religious structure and religious thought , which we can perceive most clearly as a whole in the less advanced societies , but which is equally present as the peculiar character of the most highly developed people or nation . |
| 7 | The result is a certain insularity which tends to be pervasive throughout the year , expressing itself in a fear and mistrust of strangers coupled with a fierce pride in the uniqueness of one 's origins . |
| 8 | The originality of a critical mind , expressing itself in creative and sometimes idiosyncratic science , has often manifested itself in theological deviation . |
| 9 | Like all such oppositions it was cliquy , largely conversational , expressing itself in ‘ private grievances , expressive silences , above all in abstention from praise or at the most , timid insinuations ’ . |
| 10 | Another foresees a more conservative role for the middle class , expressing itself in active opposition to socialism as a process of increasing public ownership or control of industry and expanding welfare services , and in a reassertion of the desirability of a more laissez-faire type of economy . |
| 11 | The merger move had first been announced by the Serbian communists on June 7 , with the Socialist Alliance expressing itself in favour on July 5 . |
| 12 | But on other occasions , to use a phrase of Nietzsche , ‘ a thought comes when ‘ it ’ wants , not when I want ’ , explodes and opens out too fast in in too complex ramifications to be disciplined , takes bold analogical leaps in defiance of logical rigour ; the problem on which it centres is obscure , defining itself in the process of being solved , and as he struggles to formulate it the thought is running in another direction , yet he yields to the flow out of a vague intimation that it will circle back ; for the final effort to force the argument into a coherent and publicly testable form — the only assurance even for himself that he is illumined and not deluded — he waits until the time comes to complete it on paper . |
| 13 | Computervision Corp so wants to put its sad ownership by Prime Computer Inc behind it that it is remaking itself in the pure computer-aided design software image of the company Prime acquired as quickly as it can . |
| 14 | The third case resulted from the willingness and need of the firm to take work from any source while it was establishing itself in a new market . |
| 15 | Among the protestors were members of the US radical environmentalist group , Earth First ! , currently establishing itself in Britain . |
| 16 | The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay . |
| 17 | Supporters of this generally held theory point to the tiger 's thick fur and heavy layer of fat ; also to its need to keep cool in the hot climates in which it now lives by immersing itself in water whenever it can during the heat of the day . |
| 18 | A sport 's first concern , Pascoe says , should be its own development and that means presenting itself in the best possible way . |
| 19 | Commenting on Labour 's public expenditure plans , The Economist said : ’ It has tried to respond to its familiar dilemma — of wanting to be a high-spending party without being a high-taxing one — by splitting itself in two . |
| 20 | It might have invested too little in building its capital stock , thus perhaps enfeebling itself in future competition with foreign rivals . |
| 21 | Er opposed to God and of which may well be thought of as incarnating itself in those men in every generation , who have sin to be the blatant opponents of God . |
| 22 | Security officials feared that it was re-establishing itself in the region , possibly with the help of the small Catalan secessionist group Terra Lliure . |
| 23 | But it was rumoured that the Palace was enchanted by what it had heard of the planned event and wished to make a non-committal gesture of support while not embroiling itself in politics . |
| 24 | Throughout my life my tummy has been , as it were , my Achilles heel ; and around this same time the condition of my colon , which for the latter part of my life has had a habit of tying itself in knots , became particularly acute . |
| 25 | Alice felt a little knot of fear tying itself in her belly . |
| 26 | We saw in Chapter 1 that , in Britain , there is some dispute as to when rehabilitation began to make serious inroads into penal practice : Foucault saw it as manifesting itself in the rise of the prison as the dominant penal institution ; Garland puts it much later , in the early part of this century . |
| 27 | His objection was that these poetic celebrations of the coarse side of army life were an offence against English traditions of Christian civilisation , forming part of a larger ‘ back wave ’ which was manifesting itself in various ways : ‘ the Hooligan in Politics , in Literature , and Journalism ’ , ‘ the Hooligan spirit of patriotism ’ , and all the other barbaric symptoms of ‘ the restless and uninstructed Hooliganism of the time ’ above which ‘ the flag of a Hooligan Imperialism is raised ’ . |
| 28 | Fairness also appears to have a more substantive role manifesting itself in the prohibition of discrimination , in the case law on estoppel , in the proportionality of the punishment to the offence committed , in cases where delay has been held prejudicial to important rights , and in the development of the idea of legitimate expectations . |
| 29 | A feeling of gladness began to grow within her , manifesting itself in an exhilaration she found difficult to subdue . |
| 30 | The boy fears retaliation from his father , manifesting itself in the ‘ castration syndrome ’ . |