Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a [noun] in itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Old age ’ is not a disease in itself , and it is not helpful to think of the problems which face older people as being caused ‘ by their age ’ . |
| 2 | It is not a disease in itself , but a condition which may give rise to problems if not controlled . |
| 3 | Site specificity is not a value in itself . |
| 4 | It is as if the monarchy is not a value in itself , but needs to be justified by more basic and universally accepted values . |
| 5 | The missing bridge is not a mystery in itself and one can see traces of the formation of the structure at the far end of Swithland cutting about ¾ mile north of the station . |
| 6 | The list above is only meant to be indicative , and to it could be added those that are difficult to categorise because of their broad nature — loss of confidence , which could occur because of any of the above risks , but is also a risk in itself , and fraud . |
| 7 | The drastic boyish crop — first thought a disaster — is now a trend in itself , and Evangelista earns around $10,000 a day . |
| 8 | Many of the photographs are of almost unknown objects ; the bibliography is almost a book in itself and there is a fully illustrated catalogue raisonné of the medieval European jewellery in the V&A . |
| 9 | As a restaurant manager you will have total control of a sizeable business , and that means much more than overseeing the day to day running of the restaurant [ which is quite a challenge in itself ] . |
| 10 | This happy-go-lucky attitude , with its underlying assumption that diplomacy was not a career in itself but an interlude in other and often more attractive ones , was slowly dying as system , method and organisation became more pervasive in all branches of government . |