Example sentences of "[coord] be itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx was pointing out that the capitalist assumption that what motivates man everywhere and for all time is the search for profit , is totally misleading and is itself a product of capitalism . |
| 2 | The picture painted by the Commission 's report on inner London is as gruesome as any ever presented ( and is itself revealing of common prejudices in its choice of indicators of deprivation ) : |
| 3 | S 69 , FA 1985 , which replaced ss 124 , 125 , CGTA 1979 , and is itself now part of the Taxation of Capital Gains Act 1992 , makes it clear that , in connection with a retirement relief claim , a disposal of business assets is a disposal of the whole or part of a business , or a disposal of one or more assets which , at the time at which a business ceased to be carried on , were in use for the purposes of that business . |
| 4 | It gives fine views of the worried faces to your left and is itself in a splendid position . |
| 5 | For an organisation which exists to serve people , and is itself made up of many thousands of people , effective communication is essential . |
| 6 | Against such threats the ego has many defences , such as denial , distortion , forgetting , intellectualization , projection and so on ; and thus it comes about that , in the not uncommon tendency to confuse the theory with the fact of what is repressed , psychoanalysis itself is seen as a threat to the very process of repression which it was the first to discover and is itself subjected to these defensive reactions . |
| 7 | Indeed we may speak of a ‘ new culture ’ created by modern communications , which affects everyone , particularly the younger generation , and is itself largely the result of technological advances which have created ‘ new ways of communicating , with new languages , new techniques and a new psychology ’ ( cf. |
| 8 | This little incident shows the way in which ideas can cross barriers , and is itself an indication of the transcendence of religions . |
| 9 | The Glossopteris flora was only one of several widespread late Palaeozoic floras and was itself limited to the then Gondwana region . |
| 10 | Leave to apply for judicial review was sought on the ground that this statement was not a sufficient reason , as required by the regulations , and was itself irrational . |
| 11 | During the first three millennia BC , two of the main concentrations of political power of the day , the Assyrian empire and Babylonia , lived in a state of near-permanent warfare , first with one another and then with the Persian kingdom of Elam , which at different times captured both Babylon and Ur and was itself in about 1100 BC laid waste by the Assyrians . |
| 12 | However , in the medieval period theology was " queen of the sciences " , a discipline which subsumed all other branches of knowledge and social activity and was itself luminously informed by them . |
| 13 | But this was not the case : unemployment was already higher than its average post-war value and was itself rising . |
| 14 | Ayer gives us an example of what he considers to be a meaningless theological statement : ‘ The Absolute enters into , but is itself incapable of , evolution and progress ’ . |
| 15 | The technology is not a neutral determining force , but is itself subject to human choice which is made by the powerful on the basis of what suits their interests . |
| 16 | In this way , casting ceases to be just an intermediary stage in the act of creation but is itself the finished product of that act . |
| 17 | From this position , sociologists of deviance have argued that the ‘ societal reaction ’ to deviance can not be taken for granted , but is itself a problem to be explained . |
| 18 | History is not merely the theatre in which God 's self-revelation becomes known , but is itself a mode of revelation . |
| 19 | This dictum does , of course , support the decision in Rex v. Sheridan but is itself , in turn , unsupported by reference to any earlier authority . |
| 20 | He envisaged modern states as becoming increasingly embroiled in the reproduction of a fit and healthy workforce ; a service which capitalist enterprises needed but was itself unable or unwilling to undertake . |
| 21 | The Minority Movement had not only failed to increase Communist support in the unions but was itself fading away . |