Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] itself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company , which has pretty much limited itself to the German market so far , is also looking to peddle its suite of software products across the border , in France , and is currently courting French distributors . |
| 2 | She had none of the fears of the normal servant that her honesty might ever be in doubt and her absolute conviction of her own integrity had finally communicated itself to the old man and been conceded by him . |
| 3 | Metrogel received marketing authorisation in Britain in December 1991 and was launched by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals , Bioglan 's licensee , in April 1992 ; it has already established itself as the leading topical treatment for rosacea in Britain . |
| 4 | Five days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 Turkey had unequivocally placed itself in the anti-Iraq camp with a series of economic sanctions ( including the blocking of the pipelines which were Iraq 's principal route for the export of oil ) which were to prove crucial , as Turkey was one of Iraq 's major trading partners [ see p. 37641 ] . |
| 5 | Gradually the technique develops its own style , moving away from red-figure as red-figure had early freed itself from the black figure tradition ; only white-ground long remains no more than a sideline of red-figure painters . |
| 6 | Japan has always prided itself in the high quality of its water supply . |
| 7 | This group , as well as the anti-nuclear movement itself , was strongly influenced by members of Revolutionary Struggle , an extreme left-wing group which mixed neo-Marxist economic analysis with traditional republican ideology and was strongly influenced itself by the revolutionary movement in Italy and , to a lesser extent , France , at the time . |
| 8 | This area — even if he had been a total stranger to the city , and know nothing of its history , would have immediately advertised itself as the red-light district — even the very air seemed tainted by the smells of cheap perfume and sex . |
| 9 | It was not until 1962 , when the Organisation of American States resolved that Cuba had voluntarily placed itself outside the inter-American system , that Castro — finding a temperamental and ideological disposition backed up by pressing security considerations — switched his energies to the export of revolution on a more substantial level . |
| 10 | The non-proliferation treaty has not prevented countries like Israel , India and South Africa from secretly developing nuclear weapons , but at least they have not gone public with them and no country has officially added itself to the nuclear weapons states . |
| 11 | ‘ It has completely dissociated itself from the ancient Macedonians ’ . |
| 12 | The TPLF has recently transformed itself into the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Movement to give itself more national credibility , but its core remains the Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray , whose political model seems closest to the late Enver Hoxha 's Albania . |