Example sentences of "it be [noun] itself " in BNC.

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1	It 's simplicity itself to operate and unlike gas , oil or solid fuel installations , Total Heating with Central Control causes the minimum of fuss and mess when it 's installed .
2	It 's space itself that is expanding .
3	It 's time itself that is affected .
4	( n contrast both to the genetically based view of literary history which tends to ignore questions of form , and to other formally-biased approaches which tend to ignore history , the Russian Formalist view is that it is history itself which allows the specificity of literature to be established .
5	‘ It is life itself we must battle to preserve , ’ said Mrs Thatcher in her speech to the United Nations in New York .
6	It is humanity itself which must establish that which it wants to be right , and that which it wants to be wrong .
7	This may sound complicated , but rest assured , that it is simplicity itself .
8	Moreover , once the precise mathematical form of f(U) has been unearthed by econometric testing , it is simplicity itself to arrive at an estimate of U * ; — one has merely to evaluate the root of .
9	It is transcendence itself .
10	It is sociology itself ( Durkheim 1895 ) .
11	If there has been an oppressor that has held the human spirit in chains , then it is fear itself .
12	When they cross a region of space–time it is space–time itself that vibrates .
13	And also , remember , the firms , which as I say , were dying on their feet in any case , and I me , I did quote the Colchester Lathe because I felt so personally about that cos it was Colchester itself they have actually moved their division up to Leicester itself .
14	It was life itself .
15	It was simplicity itself .
16	It was simplicity itself .
17	Indeed , had he told me where he went and with whom on the evenings he spent away from the attic , I should have felt less vulnerable : it was secrecy itself I found hostile .

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