Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put it simply , in criticizing ideology , critical theory has to establish itself as not prone to the same failings as ideology . |
| 2 | To that extent , the EC does not seem to have accepted the ramifications of the post-communist years and has not decided whether it wants to consolidate itself as a rich man 's club at the western end of the continent of Europe , to which the east Europeans can apply for associate membership , or to widen its institutions , starting with freer trade . |
| 3 | Simply put , 88open either has to reinvent itself or hang it up . |
| 4 | A bird kept in captivity is fed all year round , so obviously it has an easier time than one in the wild which has to feed itself whatever the season , but it still has the hunting instinct . |
| 5 | That 's very true and they have a the industry itself , you know , now has to pick itself up and say right we , you know , and it 's very easy to talk oneself into recession and January and February , normally fairly dull months anyway , we are now , on March the first , Saint David 's Day , at the brink of a season which could be one of the best seasons they ever have . |
| 6 | The positions of Byelorussia and Kazakhstan are less clear , while the Ukraine , with the nightmare of Chernobyl etched on its consciousness , wants to rid itself of those weapons . |
| 7 | The left also has to draw itself out of the mire into which it has been plunged following the 1960s renaissance of Marxist ideas in the Labour movement . |
| 8 | Share , the user group for IBM Corp mainframe users , reckons that no-one can afford to ignore the downsizing phenomenon any more , and wants to dedicate itself to such concepts as open systems and integration . |
| 9 | When it flies off , it starts to tidy itself up , sweeping its fur clean with a bristly comb that fringes the lower half of each hind leg . |
| 10 | And he could return to Bass , which wants to divest itself of yet more pubs . |
| 11 | The beneficence of the Sun : an occasional visit to a sun-warmed rock may be all a lizard needs to keep itself warm . |
| 12 | The Council , in sum , is seeking most of the tools it needs to relaunch itself as an active , respected self-regulator . |
| 13 | The Council , in sum , is seeking most of the tools it needs to relaunch itself as an active , respected self-regulator . |
| 14 | I think that people do n't want to see any more constitutional changes , but there are many more changes in the culture , in the way the Party operates at local , regional , and national level , which we will be addressing , but what we 're not going to have is more constitutional changes , because people feel that we 've made changes , we have moved the Party forward , we 're clear the direction we 're going in , and now the Party at all levels wants to address itself not only to building our membership , but also to showing how the policies we 've got meet the changed world outside . |
| 15 | The penal system needs to legitimate itself with three groups of people : with the public ( including politicians , commentators etc. ) , with penal staff ( including prison staff and probation officers ) and with the penal subjects ( prisoners , probationers and others who are subject to penal treatment ) . |
| 16 | When an organization needs to transform itself , it is , in fact , transforming its work . |
| 17 | Then , when the danger has passed , it starts to turn itself slowly back to its normal posture , beginning at the head end . |
| 18 | The MPRP needs to improve itself and at the same time if new parties are formed for the interest of the people and the country , they should be competing on equal terms . " |
| 19 | Rickford attacked what he described as the hysteria of the opposition to BT : the fear is that the US is being ‘ opened up to a conspiracy of foreigners against which the US needs to defend itself . ’ |
| 20 | But it is entitled to complain that it has to defend itself against attacks from an equally uneasy fusion of Daily Telegraph Toryism and free-market radicalism — so that it gets criticised both for going downmarket , and for not going far enough downmarket . |
| 21 | You will need to be observant , therefore , noting when the puppy wants to relieve itself . |
| 22 | Once in front of the judge , the dog needs to display itself to best effect as it moves around the ring . |
| 23 | Virgin wants to make itself less vulnerable , and it thinks it can do so by offering even better service to more passengers flying to more places . |
| 24 | As to whether , and if so how , Parliament cares to avail itself of this opportunity , the Act is silent . |
| 25 | Without readers , no newspaper can survive ; with sufficient readers , and willing advertisers , the chances of survival are greater but the medium still has to prove itself . |
| 26 | The BG-BASE system has to prove itself by being actively promoted to its target users . |
| 27 | The Labour Party must continue to reject the tax on the low paid , the young , the elderly , and needs to commit itself to a restoration of the Wages Councils , an increase in the power of the Wages Councils , and an improvement in the Wages Inspectorate , to ensure that all employers who break the minimum wages legislation be detected and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law . |
| 28 | Correctionalist criminologists , of all varieties , join all the other agents of social control that capitalism utilises to patch itself up and keep its exploitative machinations justified and operational . |
| 29 | Area of boxing-match and duck-rabbit refuses to resolve itself . |
| 30 | So erm the mechanisms of defence are the means that the ego uses to stop itself being worried by any , anything that might seem to , that might seem to throw them . |