Example sentences of "[that] [verb] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state monopoly of television in a country that prided itself on its tradition of freedom and pluralism of the means of expression — failed . |
| 2 | For suddenly Gus Hambro performed a minor miracle , by producing a fiery blush that made itself visible in waves of dubious gratitude and indubitable mortification even through the layers of river mud that still decorated his face . |
| 3 | While this survey has been concerned with public libraries , co-operation potentially encompasses a wide range of institutions , and an INSET network that concerned itself with training across the whole spectrum of librarianship would be of maximum value . |
| 4 | The Ancient Greeks had a word , ‘ hubris ’ , to refer to any human action that over-reached itself — of the kind that the Greeks regarded as an offence against the gods . |
| 5 | New York is uncommon political turf , and Mr Brown has been helped mightily by a press that prides itself on its aggression and which does not much like Mr Clinton . |
| 6 | Recently I was shown around the offices of a community church that prides itself on its radical Christian commitment . |
| 7 | As you 'd expect from the range that prides itself on keeping your garden in shape . |
| 8 | Close to the centre of Kitzbühel is this four-star hotel that prides itself on maintaining high standards . |
| 9 | In a region that prides itself on its cuisine and that boasts a strong tourist industry , it might have been supposed that indigenous entrepreneurs would leap at such an opportunity . |
| 10 | It spat a worrisome mixture of steam and flame out periodically and covered the bottom of the pans with black ooze , a treacly goo that got itself on to my pile jacket and put me in good humour for an hour or so . |
| 11 | Devolution was seen by heads as a process that lent itself to a more collaborative style of management . |
| 12 | However , having considered the arguments , Lord Bingham said that it was not a subject that lent itself to absolute rules . |
| 13 | The main difficulty from our point of view was that AIB was not organised in a manner that lent itself to giving instruction . |
| 14 | The bed could either be a sofa bed or a studio couch with , perhaps , extra drawers underneath , or , in a smaller room , an armchair that transforms itself into a bed . |
| 15 | Hic Mulier is not only shameless but , as Sandra Clark has recently pointed out , she suggests that shame itself ‘ is a concept framed by men to subordinate women to the dictates of arbitrary custom ’ ( ‘ Controversy ’ , 175 ) . |
| 16 | Their conclusions may be summarized quite simply : there is no evidence to show that specific infant-care practices have an unvarying psychological effect on the child that manifests itself in later years . |
| 17 | " A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland " written by Martin Martin who was a doctor in Skye was published in 1703 and mentions Finlaggan , the mines , forts , caves , the well that moved itself here from Colonsay , and gives a list of churches , but tells little about the way of life . |
| 18 | " A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland " written by Martin Martin who was a doctor in Skye was published in 1703 and mentions Finlaggan , the mines , forts , caves , the well that moved itself here from Colonsay , and gives a list of churches , but tells little about the way of life . |
| 19 | She felt as fragile and foolish as a moth that beat itself against the hot glass of an electric bulb until it fell burned and spent , in its desperate doomed quest for the light . |
| 20 | It oozed slimy green algae that plastered itself on her face and clothes . |
| 21 | Bees hummed steadily through the yellow bird 's foot trefoil that wove itself in a tangled carpet over the sand . |
| 22 | The OSF press release and its mock shock horror surprise also does n't allow for the fact that Addamax voluntarily revealed Sun 's involvement to defendants ' counsel in October of 1991 and that OSF itself has known about it since at least May of this year . |
| 23 | Reinvoicing activity is rather different , providing a stopping off point that holds itself out as the origin in communication with the customer ( or possibly the tax authorities of the customer 's territory ) . |
| 24 | Excitement flickered inside her like a random spark that found itself landing in a pile of dry autumn leaves as she hardly dared consider the possibilities and what they might mean for her . |
| 25 | But they would not countenance the replacement of the pro-Soviet Marxist regime in Afghanistan by a regime that proclaimed itself ‘ neither East nor West ’ in a fashion similar to the Iranian theocracy . |
| 26 | Philosophy that limits itself to conceptual analysis can discuss the discourses of those who talk about sex and gender , looking for conceptual coherence and the presence or absence of rational argument . |
| 27 | Such was the number of committees that writing itself had to be suspended . |
| 28 | Despite these important qualifications , Olson still implies elsewhere in that and other articles ( 1977 ; Hildyard and Olson , 1978 ) that writing itself can be unambiguous and that this is what facilitates objective knowledge . |
| 29 | and about the snake that ate itself to death . |
| 30 | But as historians they were more concerned with the past than the present , so they only gradually came to realize that the two were in many ways inseparable : both that remembering itself could be a help to the present lives of those telling their story , and also that the memory could be profoundly shaped by subsequent experience and this needed to be known to interpret it more effectively . |