Example sentences of "[noun sg] and the [noun] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | West decided to abandon wings and winglets and opted for a lead torpedo bulb suspended on a conventionally shaped fin keel attached to an oak spacer between the top of the keel and the hull itself . |
| 2 | Hill concludes that if Flashman refuses to sell : ‘ The alternatives involving possible legal action against directors and officials of the club and the club itself do not bear thinking about . ’ |
| 3 | But both the vicarage and the church itself are in desperate need of repair . |
| 4 | Further council documents show that the appropriate department and the council itself had in mind the ‘ effect of traffic attraction to the site upon the environment in the approach roads , ’ but also had in mind ‘ the employment potential of the use proposed in the planning application . ’ |
| 5 | The intention and the vow itself were no cynical charade , for Edward had already been on crusade and shared the piety and the military enthusiasm which impelled so many to the Holy Land . |
| 6 | In addition to weighing up the results and achievements of the coach 's pupils , the Institute also judges nominees on their standards of personal and professional behaviour , which reflect on the whole practice of coaching and the sport itself . |
| 7 | It blames current top management and the board itself for not understanding how bad the problems are or knowing how to solve them . |
| 8 | The Privy Council , however , reconvened Parliament for an emergency session on Feb. 18 and pushed through amendments to the Nationality Act , the Passport Act and the Constitution itself , in order to provide a retroactive legal basis for the sale ; denied its legal foundation , the court case was dismissed . |
| 9 | It might equally well be a hall , four classrooms along a corridor and the corridor itself . " |
| 10 | The shore ends of the cable used solid armoured wires instead of the stranded type and the cable itself was gradually reduced in size between the shore and the deep sea section in three stages — a practice still followed today . |
| 11 | Murderous and anguished work — the thinking that goes on between the rehearsal and the deed itself . |
| 12 | They 're the same now as they were in the fifties when making presentations and that 's about the skills you need when you stand up to speak and the skills you need in the preparation phase so the two towers of presentation skills are about the preparation and the presentation itself . |
| 13 | ‘ Delay in the conduct of civil proceedings occurs at three main stages , namely : ( i ) before proceedings are commenced ; ( ii ) between the commencement of proceedings and the point where the case is either settled or is ready for trial ; and ( iii ) between readiness for trial and the trial itself . ’ |
| 14 | The flexibility of both the mode of eliciting a response and the response itself suggests that the test may be particularly suitable for children with handicaps which make comprehension or production of speech difficult . |
| 15 | But both the try and the victory itself were sweet moments for a player who earlier this season was advised to quit the sport after being injured in an All Ireland league match against Ballymena . |
| 16 | ( Red Lake hopes to stage similar events in the future and Norseman Park and the town itself are well worth a visit anyway . |
| 17 | The award and the ceremony itself were instigated by the British Fashion Council , which tried every tactic it could -including the setting up of a smarter venue at The Duke of York 's Barracks -to persuade Katharine Hamnett to show in London . |
| 18 | When Pravda became the Bolsheviks ' legal mouthpiece in St Petersburg in 1912 , he suffered the frustration of having many of the articles he submitted for publication rejected by the editors in Russia ; communication between the Central Committee and local party organs was much too tenuous to admit of close supervision ; and , as we shall see , during the war and the revolution itself , Lenin 's word was by no means accepted as holy writ . |
| 19 | It will reveal the limitations to the interpretation a player can give , say , Bartok 's ‘ Mikrokosmos ’ without the long hours of practice and thought which are currently necessary for the mastery of both the piano and the music itself . |
| 20 | In a few months he could leave those rooms over the shop and the shop itself for ever . |
| 21 | We now know that this was the condition in galeaspids where paired nasal sacs opened into median duct and the duct itself communicated with the pharynx . |
| 22 | Similarly the teacher and the knowledge itself , as well as the teacher 's religious or non-religious faith , can often get in the way of pupils ' learning . |
| 23 | RIGHT The evidence from the site and the excavation itself has been reconstructed in a very vivid way at the Jorvik Viking centre , and is a very popular attraction for visitors from all over the world . |
| 24 | There are many similarities with beach starting , indeed many people have taught themselves by performing increasingly deeper versions of the beach start , The water start is divided into two parts ; the rig recovery and the start itself . |
| 25 | Before we put forward proposals to build a deep underground repository for Britain 's low and intermediate-level radioactive waste , we must thoroughly understand not only the science and engineering of the waste and the repository itself , but also the geology of the possible sites . |
| 26 | In fact it exploded , the great wooden bar being hurled far across the room and the frame itself giving way . |
| 27 | It looked the same as the other one to her , except perhaps that the knuckle bone of the little finger was more prominent than the rest and the finger itself rather stiff . |
| 28 | The context of the event and the event itself often went unreported , simply because the journalist assigned to the ‘ story ’ covered only the opening speech . |
| 29 | The old Welsh laws , dating from the middle of the tenth century , make it clear that the oxen were not to be used in the afternoon ; and as Seebohm points out a cyvar ( or co-ploughing , where different people contributed different members of the ox-team and the plough itself ) ended at noon . |
| 30 | There 's a convergence of a lot of intense ideas , particularly surrounding the psychedelic , evolution and the apocalypse itself . |