Example sentences of "itself [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | H. Granville-Barker , reviewing Chambers 's work , recognizes both the limitations of " science " ( " no art lends itself wholly to scientific methods of criticism and research " ) and the " magnanimity of true learning " which " scorns special pleading , comes charily to conclusions , opens every path by which the reader may reach his own . |
| 2 | Although its giant neighbour , Ben Alder , can be viewed from the A9 at the top of Loch Ericht , and the peak further west along its ridge , Aonach Beag , can be seen briefly from the A86 if you 're not fishing about for an extra strong mint in the glove compartment , Carn Dearg reveals itself only to those prepared to sweat a bit . |
| 3 | However , in its 1989 Economic Policy Review Labour committed itself only to renationalising British Telecom and the water industry , as well as tightening regulations on privatised monopolies . |
| 4 | That relation , as we have seen in the study of the parallelism of greater precision , is a dynamic one which can not be mechanically delineated , but which often yields itself only to patient exegetical probing , each couplet in its own right . |
| 5 | I regard the existence of flourishing humanities research as an index to the civilisation of our society ; Labour , however , has committed itself prematurely to the establishment of a humanities research council . |
| 6 | A road haulage business seeking to expand need not restrict itself entirely to the road transport industry . |
| 7 | Perhaps for this reason , it rarely commits itself entirely to a humanist framework . |
| 8 | But , whatever their knowledge , of far greater importance in official thinking was the strategic value of a power source which lent itself naturally to centralized control , which was operated by a well paid , reliable work-force and which would continue to keep the miners at bay . |
| 9 | Edward 's ‘ forthright ’ , breathy style lends itself naturally to blues ( Mississippi Lad or I 'm not your fool any more , also featuring Waits on vocals , and the soft and low Ballad for a Bronze Beauty ) , but less well to the rest of the album , parts of which also have an oddly out of character Brazilian flavour . |
| 10 | It is difficult to judge the material of the shroud from its marble representation , for sculpture does not lend itself easily to such subtleties . |
| 11 | A sheet of flame created itself away to his left , like a scrap of brilliant paper , and a Triplane was on its back , trailing smoke . |
| 12 | Unsurprisingly , it confined itself largely to the home — to the space between the sink and the bed . |
| 13 | In the increasingly popular idiom of so-called ‘ performance arts ’ actors and audiences revel in non-verbal excesses in the belief that such behaviour addresses itself directly to the human soul and that all other forms of traditional theatre are disgustingly ‘ literary ’ . |
| 14 | He said the NHS should address itself more to the needs of cancer patients so that they do not feel they have to go outside the system . |
| 15 | This , it was also thought , would free the child as well to attach itself totally to its new family . |
| 16 | He advised teachers ‘ to get to it ( the atomic theory ) as quickly as possible ’ , describing it as ‘ one of those short cuts with the human mind often takes to raise itself quickly to a height from which the relations between phenomena can be discerned at a glance ’ . |
| 17 | The first is that the principal postwar task will be the search for peace , an idea which will naturally commend itself both to those who have taken part in the war , and to those who have not . |
| 18 | That may be a tenable position for the Soviet Union , but not for Britain , which has committed itself repeatedly to accepting both self-determination for the German people and a re-united Germany if this is what self- determination leads to . |
| 19 | And indeed , the lexicon of " Diffugere nives " lends itself repeatedly to the construction of immanent linkages in the lexicon , a strain of metaphor not overt ( like the obvious figure of comae , " tresses " , in the second line ) but operating covertly through the potential spread of reference , the semantic leeway , in certain items of vocabulary . |
| 20 | In the wild , it confines itself mainly to unaimed throwing and the brandishing of sticks . |
| 21 | Now , in these latter sixteenth-century days , Knollys 's shipyard had been driven to the building of more modest ships , and confined itself mainly to boats no larger than forty or fifty tons — small merchantmen for the most part , which sailed for their owners to Italy and Spain with cargoes of wool , tin and salt fish . |
| 22 | With only small amounts of money changing hands , a limited number of dedicated venues , and , if it were to restrict itself solely to black audiences , a finite number of punters , the black comedy scene is clearly still in its infancy . |
| 23 | Equally , a socialism which restricted itself solely to solving the problem of exploitation in the social relations of production , and failed to respond to these contradictions in culture , might find itself far less attractive-to an electorate , for example-than it envisaged . |
| 24 | The object may lend itself equally to the expression of difference , indicating the separate domains to which people or aspects of people belong , and to the expression of unity , connecting otherwise diverse domains . |
| 25 | They reject them as calumnies which are confuted by conscious experience , and adroitly overlook the faint indications through which the unconscious is apt to betray itself even to consciousness . |
| 26 | The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented . |
| 27 | Crataegus , or hawthorn , makes a dense hedge which lends itself well to severe formal trimming |
| 28 | The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer . |
| 29 | Sending such digital signals lends itself well to using light along optical fibres rather than electrical signals along copper wires . |
| 30 | Health visitors can be employed in a part-time capacity , and the job theoretically lends itself well to jobsharing . |