Example sentences of "[noun] which be itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he has used it to swell his bank balance , it will be presumed that , in drawing on that balance , he has drawn out his own money before touching trust money ; if he has made an investment with trust money — even an investment which is itself a breach of trust — that investment is still trust property , to which the trustees ’ creditors have no claim . |
| 2 | Such questions can not be settled by resort to competing formulations of some supposed pre-existing legal rule : it is the scope and content of that rule which is itself in issue . |
| 3 | If the courts regard the allegation as relating to a statutory condition which is itself jurisdictional then they will receive affidavit evidence to show that the condition is not met . |
| 4 | However , in practice this was only achieved as a result of the very public support of Kibaki and of Charles Njonjo the influential Attorney General ( working against the interests of the founders of GEMA ) , a triumvirate which was itself to break apart with the public humiliation of Njonjo at judicial hearings in 1984 . |
| 5 | For men have always had it both ways : the begetting and the travail ( the travail which , as ‘ work ’ belongs to culture , but which as bearing and ‘ labour ’ belongs to nature ) ; the genius and the work ( the genius which is itself both passive possession and authoritative production ) , the penis and the womb . |
| 6 | Silverman explores the way Lawrence 's homosexuality promotes an erotic identification which is itself crucial for his psychic participation in Arab nationalism ; of how , in effect , he discovered himself within the Other . |
| 7 | Men and women may or may not be moral in practice in 1700 , but there is no doubt that they have a common sense of morality which is itself bound up with a religious world-view . |
| 8 | Backed by the Emperor , Haussmann planned to bring fresh water to supply fountains and reservoirs by means of aqueducts , in preference to the use of the Seine which was itself becoming more and more contaminated . |
| 9 | This study has now been tied to a vision of Englishness which is itself insulated from any concern with cultural power and control . |
| 10 | Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver . |
| 11 | Most trade unionists had been indifferent to any political theory beyond an instinctive syndicalism which was itself largely confined to industrial disputes . |
| 12 | Yet to convince you that the claim I have made in my last paragraph is justifiable would require a full-length monograph at least as long as my Political Systems of Highland Burma which is itself a fair-sized and relevant monograph entirely devoted to the affairs of the Kachin . |
| 13 | ( 7 ) For the purpose of attending and voting at meetings a member of a recognised body shall not appoint as a proxy or corporate representative any person other than a solicitor who is a member or officer of or who is working in the practice of , or a registered foreign lawyer who is a member or director of , ( a ) the recognised body or ( b ) a recognised body which is itself a member of the recognised body . |
| 14 | ( 7 ) For the purpose of attending and voting at meetings a member of a recognised body shall not appoint as proxy or corporate representative any person other than a solicitor who is a member or officer of or who is working in the practice of , or a registered foreign lawyer who is a member or director of , ( a ) the recognised body or ( b ) a recognised body which is itself a member of the recognised body . |
| 15 | It will be seen that section 61(1) does not require the Secretary of State to release any person serving a sentence of imprisonment for life on licence , but imposes two conditions which must be satisfied before he may do so , namely , that the release must first be recommended by the Parole Board ( a body which was itself constituted by section 59 of the Act of 1967 ) and that the Secretary of State may not release on licence except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice of England together with the trial judge if available . |
| 16 | He goes on : ‘ The quality common to the three experiences is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction . |
| 17 | However , in our application , the aircraft , which has no undercarriage of its own , travels on a trolley which is itself tethered to the rotating pylon head . |
| 18 | The issues discussed in this chapter have to be seen in the context of a workforce which is itself growing older . |
| 19 | We were to ride in a rickshaw which was itself a gift from a delighted tourist . |
| 20 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 21 | The subject of Les Fruits d'or ( 1963 ) is a novel which is itself entitled ‘ Les Fruits d'or ’ ; this situation acts as a catalyst for tropistic interactions amongst a set of predominantly anonymous figures who are trapped within the fixed patterns of social discourse . |
| 22 | One is that it makes people er it gives people experience of participation which is itself an improving matter . |
| 23 | From his point of view , Modernism as a sub-species of romantic anti-capitalism is one partial moment in the rejection of the consequences of Enlightenment properly understood : understood , that is , in terms of a Marxism which is itself held out as the genuine heir to the Enlightenment narrative of emancipation and its romantic critique . |
| 24 | It should be said , nevertheless , that powerful search techniques , across such large databases , will still only contribute effectively to your essay-writing or research if you maintain a clear sense of what you are looking for and why — a guiding principle which is itself independent of the technology . |
| 25 | Rather Marx and Engels sought to show how social relations are themselves the product of the social system in which they occur , of the way the material conditions of existence are organized and regulated , a system which is itself the product of history or of the particular stage of evolution . |
| 26 | There is a good deal of evidence to show , however , that industrial capitalism places women on the periphery of the economy , and for women in a Third World country which is itself on the periphery of a world economy , the situation is even more difficult . |
| 27 | As head of its armed forces , General Noriega rules a country which was itself brought into being by the United States . |
| 28 | But in most conversational contexts , if we think of an activity as connected with crime , we are likely to be thinking of an activity which is itself criminal ; and on the other hand , in all cases , activity which is itself criminal is by definition connected with crime . |
| 29 | But in most conversational contexts , if we think of an activity as connected with crime , we are likely to be thinking of an activity which is itself criminal ; and on the other hand , in all cases , activity which is itself criminal is by definition connected with crime . |
| 30 | Dramatic , popular depictions of cellular processes and biochemical reactions generated a language which was itself implicitly moral in its narrative stress on dynamic causalities , portrayed as inevitable and irreversible . |