Example sentences of "itself [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attachment to work of many of them is rather marginal — itself intimately related to the fact that frequently their temporary jobs are also part-time jobs [ see Chapter 2 ] . |
| 2 | Capital competes for itself economically and , therefore , only requires that the state 's role is facilitative of general market conditions by reproducing labour power ( underwriting welfare and education for a proficient labour force ) and providing a political safety valve for capitalism ( through the apparent neutrality of the bourgeois , liberal democratic state based upon universal suffrage ) . |
| 3 | Prior to the middle of this century , the Catholic Church had concerned itself predominantly with spiritual matters . |
| 4 | Rhee reacted by toning down his recent criticisms of the Americans and he urged that a small force be left in south Korea until the south could defend itself effectively . |
| 5 | He wrote , ‘ Only a socialist Latin or Spanish America can pit itself effectively against plutocratic , imperialist North America . |
| 6 | How can an unprecedented association of nations which come together voluntarily govern itself effectively , responsibly and responsively ? |
| 7 | The idea that the text in some way performs a deconstruction upon itself effectively validates the rhetorical reading in terms of the text 's actual movement : if the text " actually " contains these contradictions , the choice between " rhetorically aware " and " aesthetically responsive " paradigms is that between complete and partial readings . |
| 8 | For one thing , Callinicos goes out of his way to establish that the intellectual tradition he is concerned to critique is itself most fruitfully read , not as an articulation of a qualitatively new postmodernism , but an instance of a Modernist-type response . |
| 9 | Central government and received opinion were powerless against that pressure , which expressed itself most clearly in the urge to enter secondary-modern pupils for public examinations . |
| 10 | This has shown itself most vividly in the miserable business of Macedonia . |
| 11 | The non-Roman , Eastern influence on the Celtic Church manifested itself most obviously in Irish monasticism . |
| 12 | an organisation whose structure lends itself most readily to ensuring that employees work effectively for the achievement of their own and the organisation 's goals . |
| 13 | In its beginnings , therefore , modern nationalism can be seen as one aspect of a class movement which found political expression in a general struggle for democracy ; manifesting itself most clearly in the American Revolution — interpreted by some scholars as the formation of the ‘ first new nation ’ ( Lipset , 1967 ) — and in the French Revolution , which together established the model of a new kind of political system embodying the ideas of ‘ citizenship ’ and ‘ popular sovereignty ’ . |
| 14 | This manifests itself most obviously at the technical level where the same basic skills can be applied in different markets . |
| 15 | This irritation manifested itself most publicly in February 1945 , when he refused an invitation to meet Roosevelt in Algiers immediately after Yalta , much to the annoyance of the Americans and the embarrassment of many at home . |
| 16 | This means , in effect , that each Alu sequence that inserts itself into the chromosomes carries with it the means to get out again and reinsert itself somewhere else . |
| 17 | He would gaze for a long time and , when Gabriel had finished his tasks , would settle again until the ghost reinforced itself somewhere else a few days later . |
| 18 | COHSE argues that most trusts are waiting for a system to prove itself somewhere else before showing their hands — and that PRP will not work unless there is money to fund it . |
| 19 | Sitting where he was , a bullet fired into the back of his neck might pass through and embed itself somewhere in the brickwork above the stove . |
| 20 | Shiona felt her heart perform a triple somersault and lodge itself somewhere in the region of her throat . |
| 21 | But they also explore psychology 's boundaries : an important focus for a discipline so determined to define itself rigorously . |
| 22 | My personal feeling is that , once cumulative selection has got itself properly started , we need to postulate only a relatively small amount of luck in the subsequent evolution of life and intelligence . |
| 23 | Oh possibly again i it 's just possible actually that the construction of the bungalow did n't lend itself properly well to knocking through . |
| 24 | He pointed to demographic changes in the population , a lack of competitiveness among health authorities as a labour market , and a labour turnover in which the profession renews itself numerically every six years as part of the explanation for the shortfall in establishment figures . |
| 25 | The loss of nurses is so great that the profession replaces itself numerically once every six years . |
| 26 | The issue of military corruption thrown up by the Pinocheques and La Cutufa cases [ see pp. 37852-53 ] had severely damaged the image of the army , which had projected itself as incorruptible and on this basis had hoped to defend itself successfully against charges of human rights abuses during the military dictatorship . |
| 27 | However discussion about ‘ discourse ’ is still highly theoretical and itself arguably a product of a Western intellectual tradition . |
| 28 | This unequal share of wretchedness was itself unequally distributed within Derry . |
| 29 | Compared with these other fields of intervention , the state itself rarely took the lead in the area of sexuality . |
| 30 | The fringing reef came into view as well : a ragged line of breakers , huge walls of spume and the ocean hurling itself relentlessly against the coral . |