Example sentences of "[that] [verb] itself " in BNC.
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| 31 | But reason requires that protest itself needs to spring from and to recognise a liberal sentiment , since romantic revivalist passion and the protest which its enthusiasm engenders can be inimical to both the interests of the individual and free social cooperation . |
| 32 | Appraisal is seen to be principally the activity of applied linguistics ( or that branch of it that concerns itself with language teaching ) and application ( as defined here ) the principal activity of language teaching . |
| 33 | In addition , she is keenly involved in Headway ( I 'm the Avon patron ) , the Frenchay based charity that concerns itself with the effects and remedial care following head injuries . |
| 34 | There was a restlessness in the time that communicated itself everywhere and to everyone , that communicated itself to the very sounds in Britain 's air , the stones beneath Britain 's feet . |
| 35 | There was a restlessness in the time that communicated itself everywhere and to everyone , that communicated itself to the very sounds in Britain 's air , the stones beneath Britain 's feet . |
| 36 | There was something in his utter stillness — a tension that communicated itself to her . |
| 37 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 38 | I wanted to meet Peruvians and speak to them one to one ; and in Cuzco I encountered only the persistence of hawkers , the sullen attention of displaced campesinos , a world that turned itself or me into shadows . |
| 39 | Sweeping into the market with some force has been Abbey National , the building society that turned itself into a bank in 1989 . |
| 40 | We let the line of fire that ends itself |
| 41 | A weeping star that mends itself in time |
| 42 | Firstly , the file organization is more robust , as the accidental overwriting of a record only affects that record itself and not other members of a chain . |
| 43 | Yes but has is it um plain flour or flour that raises itself ? |
| 44 | We merely became accustomed to the general life of the common birds and animals , and to the appearances of trees and clouds and everything upon the surface that showed itself to the naked eye ’ . |
| 45 | It never varies : beginning with an origin or a centre that divides itself and leaves itself , an historical circle is described , which is degenerative in direction but progressive and compensatory in effect . |
| 46 | The first is that sorting itself takes time . |
| 47 | Frustration fastened Jezrael , a solid wall that cramped itself around her body . |
| 48 | If the Smiths had only produced sunny , cuddly stuff like ‘ Heaven Knows ’ , ‘ Ask ’ , ‘ Vicar in a Tutu ’ , they would have merely presaged the perky negligibility of The Housemartins , the sound that grins itself to death . |
| 49 | People , for reasons best known to themselves , regularly push wardrobes or pull pianos up the motorway that calls itself the tourist path . |
| 50 | It is an ideology that calls itself pluralism when it imposes monoculture ; that speaks of choice as it snuffs out the biodiversity of the earth ; that cries democracy when it eclipses and denies all alternatives . |
| 51 | He might still be a force for peace and unity in a country that calls itself The Union of Burma . |
| 52 | You see any product that calls itself an ‘ anti-perspirant ’ works by actually blocking the pores of your skin with chemicals . |
| 53 | I joined the cast of the relentless 3D movie that calls itself Manhattan , where it 's always night and they keep the lights on to prove it . |
| 54 | We could say that the postmodern expression of the woman 's face is one that acknowledges itself as simulacrum and displays this without modesty . |
| 55 | From the day they had all parted , diverging from Ecalpemos out into the world , he had never seen Adam again , but he knew all about him , knew for instance that he had become a partner in a company selling computers that called itself Verne-Smith-Duchini . |
| 56 | ( It was a pattern that repeated itself , and Helen oft en recognized its therapeutic value for herself and Edward at moments of difficulty throughout their married life . ) |
| 57 | A team that regards itself as hard done by and dreams of crayfish lunches at Doyles in Sydney or windsurfing in the Caribbean can be sunk without trace . |
| 58 | SOME of the world 's most enduring stories are about the disturbingly sudden appearance of a Savage Outsider in a community that regards itself as settled and , by its own lights , civilised . |
| 59 | Bearing these two variables in mind , the argument for age effects becomes less clear and Krashen ( 1981 ) maintains that age itself may not be an effective predictor of attainment or even rate of attainment . |
| 60 | I would shrink away in instant horror from the hand that placed itself on my arm or shoulder in an embarrassed and half-hearted attempt at communication . |