Example sentences of "[that] [vb -s] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | New York is uncommon political turf , and Mr Brown has been helped mightily by a press that prides itself on its aggression and which does not much like Mr Clinton . |
| 2 | Recently I was shown around the offices of a community church that prides itself on its radical Christian commitment . |
| 3 | As you 'd expect from the range that prides itself on keeping your garden in shape . |
| 4 | Close to the centre of Kitzbühel is this four-star hotel that prides itself on maintaining high standards . |
| 5 | In a region that prides itself on its cuisine and that boasts a strong tourist industry , it might have been supposed that indigenous entrepreneurs would leap at such an opportunity . |
| 6 | The bed could either be a sofa bed or a studio couch with , perhaps , extra drawers underneath , or , in a smaller room , an armchair that transforms itself into a bed . |
| 7 | Their conclusions may be summarized quite simply : there is no evidence to show that specific infant-care practices have an unvarying psychological effect on the child that manifests itself in later years . |
| 8 | Reinvoicing activity is rather different , providing a stopping off point that holds itself out as the origin in communication with the customer ( or possibly the tax authorities of the customer 's territory ) . |
| 9 | Philosophy that limits itself to conceptual analysis can discuss the discourses of those who talk about sex and gender , looking for conceptual coherence and the presence or absence of rational argument . |
| 10 | Appraisal is seen to be principally the activity of applied linguistics ( or that branch of it that concerns itself with language teaching ) and application ( as defined here ) the principal activity of language teaching . |
| 11 | In addition , she is keenly involved in Headway ( I 'm the Avon patron ) , the Frenchay based charity that concerns itself with the effects and remedial care following head injuries . |
| 12 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 13 | We let the line of fire that ends itself |
| 14 | A weeping star that mends itself in time |
| 15 | Yes but has is it um plain flour or flour that raises itself ? |
| 16 | It never varies : beginning with an origin or a centre that divides itself and leaves itself , an historical circle is described , which is degenerative in direction but progressive and compensatory in effect . |
| 17 | If the Smiths had only produced sunny , cuddly stuff like ‘ Heaven Knows ’ , ‘ Ask ’ , ‘ Vicar in a Tutu ’ , they would have merely presaged the perky negligibility of The Housemartins , the sound that grins itself to death . |
| 18 | People , for reasons best known to themselves , regularly push wardrobes or pull pianos up the motorway that calls itself the tourist path . |
| 19 | It is an ideology that calls itself pluralism when it imposes monoculture ; that speaks of choice as it snuffs out the biodiversity of the earth ; that cries democracy when it eclipses and denies all alternatives . |
| 20 | He might still be a force for peace and unity in a country that calls itself The Union of Burma . |
| 21 | You see any product that calls itself an ‘ anti-perspirant ’ works by actually blocking the pores of your skin with chemicals . |
| 22 | I joined the cast of the relentless 3D movie that calls itself Manhattan , where it 's always night and they keep the lights on to prove it . |
| 23 | We could say that the postmodern expression of the woman 's face is one that acknowledges itself as simulacrum and displays this without modesty . |
| 24 | A team that regards itself as hard done by and dreams of crayfish lunches at Doyles in Sydney or windsurfing in the Caribbean can be sunk without trace . |
| 25 | SOME of the world 's most enduring stories are about the disturbingly sudden appearance of a Savage Outsider in a community that regards itself as settled and , by its own lights , civilised . |
| 26 | However , just as at a certain place on the earth 's surface we can still call ‘ down' ’ the direction towards the centre of the earth , so a living organism that finds itself in such a world at a certain period of time can define the ‘ direction ’ of time as going from the less probable state to the more probable ( the former will be the ‘ Past' ’ and the latter the ‘ Future' ’ ) and by virtue of the definition he will find that his own small region , isolated from the rest of the universe , is ‘ initially' ’ always in an improbable state . |
| 27 | The first duty of any meeting that finds itself without a Chairman is to appoint one . |
| 28 | Get them by blasting the goose-neck helicopter that assembles itself before your very eyes ! |
| 29 | This dialectic means that the constitution of a universal category of subjectivity that includes all other subjects at the same time , is also part of the process by which an individual is constituted , as an ‘ I ’ that distinguishes itself as non-identical with all other subjects . |
| 30 | I 'm going to work on a revolutionary kagoul that pulls itself on like the hood of a Chevy convertible , and then recedes at the touch of a button . |