Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] be [prep] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its defenders claim that to create the impression of progress is in itself a vital part of crisis management . |
| 2 | What matters is simply a profession of faith in Jesus as a manifestation of God , and such a profession of faith is in itself sufficient to ensure salvation . |
| 3 | For rural weavers the habit of association was in itself sufficient to produce at need an organisation to provide deputations or conduct strikes , and this habit was reinforced rather than created by more formal links such as village friendly or burial clubs . |
| 4 | Yet she had retained an impression of somebody so ordinary-looking that his very lack of distinction was in itself reassuring . |
| 5 | Whereas for Soviet historians this fear of revolution is in itself a sufficient explanation for liberal weakness , revisionist work has stressed , in addition , the deep divisions that beset Russia 's middle classes . |
| 6 | However , the repetitive nature of this type of credit is in itself a barrier against its users weighing up the advantages of credit which does not involve weekly collection — and perhaps against them considering cash as an alternative . |
| 7 | In Asia Minor about 110 the younger Pliny , the governor of Bithynia , asked Trajan whether the profession of Christianity was in itself culpable or ‘ the vices associated with the name ’ , especially since after investigation by torture he had discovered that there were no frightful vices : the accused said their custom was to meet before dawn on a particular day to sing a hymn to Christ as a god and to take an oath ( sacramentum ) to abstain from wrongdoing . |
| 8 | This mobile positioning of subjectivity is in itself political in that it leaves space for alternative forms of identity construction as well as the toleration of ‘ difference , in identity construction . |
| 9 | Keller argues that the equation of science with objectivity is in itself redolent of particular values , saying that : |
| 10 | The fact that the problem is not covered by authority is in itself a valuable piece of information . |
| 11 | Replacement of plan by market is in itself a surrender of power , since it means the elimination of planners . |