Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [noun sg] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points to Derrida s fascination with fourfold elements , evident in his deconstruction of the Hegelian triad — thesis , antithesis , synthesis — to add a fourth element , which is deconstruction itself . |
| 2 | Roller looms take the weaving process one step further with a development which is simplicity itself . |
| 3 | First , there is redundancy itself , which was undoubtedly the main spur to early retirement among those in the After Redundancy study . |
| 4 | There are also a number of inter-departmental committees based in the Cabinet and there is Cabinet itself to co-ordinate government policy . |
| 5 | It 's simplicity itself to operate and unlike gas , oil or solid fuel installations , Total Heating with Central Control causes the minimum of fuss and mess when it 's installed . |
| 6 | It 's space itself that is expanding . |
| 7 | It 's time itself that is affected . |
| 8 | ( n contrast both to the genetically based view of literary history which tends to ignore questions of form , and to other formally-biased approaches which tend to ignore history , the Russian Formalist view is that it is history itself which allows the specificity of literature to be established . |
| 9 | ‘ It is life itself we must battle to preserve , ’ said Mrs Thatcher in her speech to the United Nations in New York . |
| 10 | It is humanity itself which must establish that which it wants to be right , and that which it wants to be wrong . |
| 11 | This may sound complicated , but rest assured , that it is simplicity itself . |
| 12 | Moreover , once the precise mathematical form of f(U) has been unearthed by econometric testing , it is simplicity itself to arrive at an estimate of U * ; — one has merely to evaluate the root of . |
| 13 | It is transcendence itself . |
| 14 | It is sociology itself ( Durkheim 1895 ) . |
| 15 | If there has been an oppressor that has held the human spirit in chains , then it is fear itself . |
| 16 | When they cross a region of space–time it is space–time itself that vibrates . |