Example sentences of "in itself [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , where labour is either particularly demanding or is not in itself particularly fulfilling or interesting one could reasonably say it is in the interests of the workers concerned to work short hours and/or work at a relatively low intensity of labour . |
| 2 | Sex discrimination legislation in itself probably does little to alter the balance between boys ' and girls ' achievement , or bring their curricula nearer together . |
| 3 | Alternatively the plaintiff may complain that the product was in itself inadequately constructed . |
| 4 | It is so grave , because , on any view , the putting to death of a human being by the society to which he belongs is an appalling act , calculated in itself rather to familiarise that society with the taking of life than to heighten the sense of life being held sacred . |
| 5 | We would not presume to claim that The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail in itself necessarily influenced any of these works . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think that Socialism in itself necessarily increases human misery ? ’ asked Julia with conscious naivety , watching David from under her dark eyelashes . |
| 7 | By the time of the New Testament , those hardened attitudes are positively-aggressive ; so much indeed that ‘ Gentile ’ in itself actually becomes a term of abuse . |
| 8 | The suggestion that pre-exposure to a stimulus establishes an exact representation of it , for instance , is not in itself enough to explain latent inhibition ; indeed it seems capable of predicting quite the wrong result . |
| 9 | No one expected the pastoral Masai to go out to work en masse as agricultural labourers for the Europeans , and so their officers were spared the necessity of acting as labour recruiters — in itself enough to lighten the heart of any administrative officer in Kenya . |