Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] itself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coutts & Co prides itself on offering comprehensive national and international banking and financial services with ‘ an unwavering commitment to courteous and individual service ’ . |
| 2 | Henley prides itself on the accessibility of its Faculty whose services extend well beyond the formal classroom environment . |
| 3 | As you drive , this NVH manifests itself in the form of tiny vibrations fed back through the steering wheel and the gruff , uninspiring sounds from the SE-FHE engine . |
| 4 | Institutionalised racism manifests itself in insensitive service provision in health and social services , with barriers around language , the pattern of family names and vocabulary . |
| 5 | The ‘ resentment ’ at being denied possible access to positions of respect and maybe responsibility manifests itself in a number of ways , not least in the social posture of black youth in the UK . |
| 6 | Confronted with the crass sexual exploitation of mainstream pop , alternative British rock shrouds itself in shapeless jumpers and stares heavenwards . |
| 7 | In the 1629 session he told the Commons that ‘ religion offers itself to your first consideration at this time ’ , and reproached the Speaker for undue readiness to obey the king 's orders . |
| 8 | Do n't be surprised if your grief manifests itself in unexpected ways . |
| 9 | These values and this separation of course react back on to design practice itself ; after all practice models itself on conceptions of what , theoretically , it is . |
| 10 | TI blames itself for telling the newsletter that that would be the ‘ average price for 1993 ’ because it forgot to factor in the industry practice of constantly repricing in the face of better yields . |
| 11 | We use the words in the sense of a psychic process by which the mind protects itself from undue or unbearable pain , anxiety or conflict . |
| 12 | The remainder of this chapter concerns itself with these two outer layers . |
| 13 | However , as one of the main findings of this research was that arts educators were not aware of recent changes in modes adopted to undertake professional development generally , the first part of the chapter concerns itself with a review of this issue , exemplars being drawn from arts education where these are available . |
| 14 | This parasite attaches itself to the mouths of fishes , sea-squirts , etc. 65 . |
| 15 | The low angle means that all shadows — ours , the dogs ' , the trees ' — are long and ghostly across the ice , and the orange light wraps itself around everything so that all things seem to be part of one thing . |
| 16 | By adopting the Freirian perspective , ASAP distinguishes itself from ‘ Scared Straight ’ programs . |
| 17 | If McAlpine finds itself in a position to proceed to Stage II of the IDO registration procedure , i.e. the drawing up and presentation of a Plan of Operations , the Consortium will have to consider the following : |
| 18 | This chapter confines itself to the intangibles . |
| 19 | But it also happens that in the organization of recorded knowledge for retrieval the profession of librarianship finds itself at an interesting point of crisis . |
| 20 | Figure 7.6 A territorial rufous humming-bird weighs itself by perching on a spring balance . |
| 21 | Though still blind and naked , the chick manoeuvres itself inside the nest until an egg is lodged between its back and the side of the nest . |
| 22 | However in the second verse the reason in Gunn 's mind expresses itself in conflict with the attraction expressed in verse one : |
| 23 | If the pub as an institution expresses itself in a rich variety of ways , the same is true of the physical forms it takes . |
| 24 | The dance responds to another rhythm — the violent modern dissonances of Stravinsky 's famous musical score and spring releases itself with a boundless , dangerous energy in movements tense , muscular and frankly sensual . |
| 25 | On the other hand , a court of equity addresses itself to the amount of costs that the mortgagee should be allowed as a condition of redemption . |
| 26 | The new complex lends itself to mechanised materials handling … whilst the cost of construction has been high , rental costs have been eliminated . |
| 27 | IBM is usually pretty forthcoming about the markets that it foresees for its products , but in this case limits itself to saying that it will appeal to professionals who would prefer ‘ easy-to-remember voice commands ’ to complicated keystrokes or mouse movements . |
| 28 | The result is a predictably idealistic criticism which at one level contents itself with rapid reference to formalistic definitions , and at another assesses the products of socialist realism with imprecise criteria culled generally from a liberal bourgeois critical tradition . |
| 29 | COSE prides itself on its un-organisation : no dues , no structure , no consortium , no budget , and it 's hard to reckon how such a motley crew , left to its own devices , can even begin to expect to defeat Bill Gates , master of the media , without a common war chest and a seriously orchestrated propaganda campaign . |
| 30 | COSE prides itself on its un-organisation : no dues , no structure , no consortium , no budget ( UX No 428 ) . |